Xander Schauffele latest to make brand change as doubt cast over Tiger Woods’ Nike future
The 2024 PGA Tour season begins later this week at The Sentry Tournament, and it appears that a number of players have chosen to make changes to their apparel, including Xander Schauffele. In the latest apparel switch-up on the PGA Tour, Xander Schauffele appears to have parted ways with Adidas Golf. This comes as doubt has been cast over Tiger Woods’ future with Nike.
Schauffele endorsed with Adidas back in 2018, new off the rear of being named the PGA Visit’s Thenew hotness. From that point forward, the Olympic hero has become one of the brand’s most conspicuous golf players on the PGA Visit, wearing the Adidas identification on his cap, shirt and shoes.
In front of the start of the 2024 PGA Visit season however, the 30-year-old has shown up at The Guard Competition without the notable three stripes on his chest.
Rather Schauffele was envisioned wearing Descente upon his appearance in Hawaii, a brand likewise donned by previous Bosses champion Danny Willett, as well as LPGA Visit star Danielle Kang. Schauffele’s choice to leave Adidas comes all at once where rivals Nike could likewise be set to lose their greatest name.
As of late reports have proposed that 82-time PGA Visit champ Tiger Woods could well be set to cut off his notorious 27-year friendship with Nike. During his experience as ostensibly golf’s most noteworthy ever player, Woods has become inseparable from the swoosh, declaring himself as perhaps of Nike’s most conspicuous competitor.
The last 10-year contract that the 15-time major winner signed with the brand was in 2013, and it was reportedly worth $200 million. This arrangement obviously terminated following the finish of 2023, and there has been no report on whether this has been stretched out into 2024.
Woods – who has wore the Nike swoosh out on the green beginning around 1996 – stunned the universe of golf upon his return at the 2022 Experts, by selecting to wear FootJoy shoes for his most memorable occasion in 18 months at Augusta Public.
Woods had not highlighted on the Visit for quite a while, subsequent to enduring profession compromising wounds in a fender bender in February 2021. His rebound at long last came at the Bosses, where he picked to trade out his Nike shoes, refering to the additional solace FootJoy gave on his harmed right leg as the key explanation.
“I have extremely restricted versatility now,” the five-time green coat champ guaranteed at that point. ” Just with the poles and plates and screws that are in my leg, I wanted something else, something that permitted me to be more steady. I’ve gone to that.”
His last trip came finally month’s PNC Title, where he collaborated with child Charlie in the parent-kid occasion. Woods selected to wear Nike clothing during the competition in Florida, and when tested on his future with the swoosh asserted: ” I’m actually wearing their item.”
After Jason Day arrived at The Sentry this week in a new brand, Woods would not be the first to leave Nike in 2024. Day had been a Nike athlete since 2016, but this week, Day wore Malbon Golf gear in Hawaii, indicating that the partnership appears to have ended.
