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Tiger Woods to swing from amateur to pro
20-year-old golfer should try to follow Nicklaus' example
By Jim Litke The Associated Press
He had better be about winning, about winning right away, about winning often, and little else.
Once the hoopla dies down, that's what Tiger Woods will still have to do. Win. Or learn a bitter lesson. The world doesn't need another fair-to-middling golf pro. Even an unusually young and marketable one.
For all the can't-miss signs hung on him all these years, a 20-year-old kid doing anything is still a gamble. If Woods or his game is not ready, pressing them into duty looks unseemly.
Tiger Woods
He says it's all about getting better.
"I did this because I wanted my final round as an amateur to be in the U.S. Amateur," he said yesterday. "I knew after I won, there's not much more to achieve in amateur golf. I felt like it was time."
If his heart isn't in it for the long haul, golf will find out and make him pay. If he and his brain trust picked the wrong moment to turn pro, there will be regrets. And more than enough time to suffer them.
Woods should keep this in mind as he sets out this weekend to conquer the Professional Golfer's Association Tour, first in Milwaukee and then beyond: The world lives with phenoms only so long. Golf's
minor-league tours are crawling with them. And in truth, the big tour doesn't need any more Ben Crenshaws, Tom Kites or Curtis Stranges, either.
Not that they aren't wonderful players; just that there are plenty more like them in the pipeline already.
Now that golf pays more than selling insurance, there will never be a shortage of players who burst from the amateur ranks like comets, yet manage only a few memorable sparks before they flame out. The ones like Woods, who can light the entire curve of a career, come along maybe once in a lifetime.
The only thing professional golf really needs right now is the same thing it's needed for more than a decade, ever since Jack Nicklaus turned gray at the temples and became an exhilarating bet instead of a sure thing.
It needs what Tom Watson and Seve Ballesteros provided for a brief time after Nicklaus' reign. What Nick Faldo, Greg Norman and Nick Price have taken turns — in musical-chairs fashion — providing ever since. What Phil Mickelson and Justin Leonard are beating each other's brains out trying to provide for the foreseeable future.
What pro golf needs is somebody to throw a lingering shadow on the final Sunday afternoon of every major each season. Somebody whose game doesn't blow hot and cold, whose name pops up on the leaderboard during the back nine and makes the hair on everybody else's neck stand up. Some guys can do it some of the time.
What golf needs is somebody stalking the leaders the way Nicklaus did, all the time, so that when Steve Jones or Mark Brooks hoists a U.S., British or PGA Championship trophy over his head, his sweat-encrusted polo shirt tells us he honestly beat the best — not simply outlasted the rest.
In short, it needs Tiger Woods to do what he did for amateur golf these last few years. Which is asking quite a lot from a kid whose game is suspect from 100 yards in, whose best finish in a major was 22nd at the most recent British Open, and who has made the cut only seven times in the 17 pro events he's played. As it is, Woods will need a half-dozen great years just to catch Mickelson, who at 26 has won nine tournaments but still gets called an underachiever.
And so let's hope Woods really is coming out because there is only one place left where he can get better. And not because Titleist piled $3 million on top of that to have him play their ball. Or even because he has sponsors' exemptions for seven PGA events against weak fields and could win enough money to earn his 1997 PGA Tour card without a trip to the fall Qualifying School.
Those aren't bad reasons. But they better not be the only ones. Because without winning, none of the endorsements last.
After an amateur career that paralleled Woods', Nicklaus won $33.33 in his first professional tournament. That was the Los Angeles Open in 1962, and he walked away scared to death. Years later, he recalled, "the first thing I learned ... was that by play-for-pay standards I couldn't chip worth a darn, nor pitch the ball a whole lot better. Also my sand play left a lot to be desired. ... I couldn't keep the ball low in the wind, couldn't move it left to right."
Nicklaus' game wasn't actually as bad as he made it sound. Later that summer, he beat Arnold Palmer in a playoff for the U.S. Open, then won twice more before the season was out.
Of course, Nicklaus was always a quick study. For Woods' benefit, let's hope the same is true about him.
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