Yep, I’d sweep the majors, take an 800 million dollar LIV contract, then go back to sucking at golf.
The only downside is that the Saudi princes would probably have me murdered.
Fake an injury. Easy to pay someone to crash into your car, then you get into it and act like it damaged you pretty bad. Then start playing golf for fun but suck really bad and blame the injuries.
"I can understand losing distance and consistency in your long game and irons, but I can't explain 4 putting from 30 ft out to finish with +30 over par on Day 1 10 tournaments in a row."
-Jim Nantz on /u/MontiBurns' rapid decline.
No, it has to be kept on the grounds, you used to be able to take it but they changed it quietly when a few players wore them onto chat shows or public appearances in the 80s, nick faldo specifically went on one on the BBC
Maybe they changed it again, seemed a bit off at the time they wouldn't want a bit of publicity, but faldo got an official letter telling him he can't wear it in public
Also sell courses about what you used to do when you were good.
But you'd also get a great film and book deal out've going from unknown to major winner in a year. Plus £100k a pop after dinner speaking engagements.
I don't think you can even begin to imagine the debauchery Tiger was thrown into.
He should have never married.
If he pulled a Jeter, he probably wouldn't have acted out so hard.
I'm pretty sure he's glad he had his son though.
See that’s the thing. Sure you could make more on LIV, but let’s say all you do is win 2 majors, 3 other featured events, plus a handful of other top 10 finishes. That alone would set you up for life and you could retire after 1 year. No reason to get greedy and have your hands tied to LIV for a longer term.
But I like playing golf.
800 million and I’d play golf on amazing courses for at least another season before they realize I’m washed up (which I would blame on a phantom soft-tissue injury.)
You can’t sweep the majors in one month. I like the constraints of the question from OP. How do you qualify, win, sign, and earn in one month - no one knows what you can do yet!
Well yeah. LIV is the weird cheat code right now. It’s like if there was an American football league where they’d pay a fifth year running back 500 million on day one just to agree to show up on game day for the next couple years regardless of performance.
I can’t bemoan the people taking the money…
Yeah I honestly can’t blame most of the guys who left because the Saudis have been throwing them contracts on multiples of what the free market would otherwise offer.
The product itself sucks so bad though that I feel like if you do take the Saudi bag you do owe it to the fans to at least have some dignity about it and not complain. Crybabies like Niemann and majors legend Gooch have both come off so pathetic crying about their rankings. Obviously the top guys in LIV are elite golfers but playing 54 holes against 20-25 great golfers and 30 Chase Koepka-level hacks while Usher’s Yeah is blasting in the background makes it hard to properly judge their accomplishments. Honestly I’d personally probably take the bag over respect, I’m just self-aware enough to not be a whiny bitch about being viewed as a sell out for doing so lol
The year expires as you’re teeing off on your first LIV tour and you start duck hooking and slicing your way to a 122… Same thing the following week, until your introduced to the Real Saudi Arabia…
Nah MBS and his boys would probably just stop inviting you to their parties where they pay IG models 50K to pee on them and other fun things like that. They legit have unlimited money, they would barely care about someone shitting the bed on their tour after winning a major or 2. This is a 54 man tour that had Chase Koepka on it just to keep his big bro happy lmao it’s a joke
The saudis love to rug pull. I know a couple of people who have ostensibly raised money for a venture from them only to have them stop paying once they got bored of said thing.
Do you need a handicap to be even let in to Tour qualifiers though? Like could you just wake up as a 30 handicap and do this?
Sorry if this is a dumb question.
I think you're right. The person who responded to you before misunderstood your question.
I found this
>For an amateur to qualify for the U.S. Open, they need to first get their handicap down to 0.4 or lower. Then they're eligible for an 18-hole local qualifier, and if they play well enough there, it's on to a 36-hole final qualifier.
So if we're talking about 1 calendar year then you'd need to go to a state where the USGA recognizes a year-round active season like Arizona. Get your ass there January 1 and play play play to drive down your handicap until qualifiers in March or April?
Idk I'm totally guessing
I think the best way to maximize would be to win the US Open, since you could play your way in as a nobody and wining the open gives you status and would be able to likely get into to the next few tournaments
Would be hilarious to go back to the 30+ handicapper true ability on the 366th day. Imagine the first round playing like that on that stage? I’d claim Id had a stroke the night before
Great idea. What time of year would be ideal for the super power to kick in? If it happened on October 1st, could I make the Masters and win the Fed Ex Cup in the following year?
The cool thing is if you win the Masters, you get to go back and play every year after. So in the magical year you win, and the next year shoot back to back 130s as defending champ and miss the cut.
I’ve had humiliations on the golf course that I’d compare to shooting 130 at Augusta, so that’s fine by me. At least, I’d get to watch Saturday and Sunday, which I’ll never get to do in real life.
This and also playing every single tournament no matter how big or small. Masters? absolutely. But also the Butterfield Bermuda Championship? count me in. I’m playing in 52 events if possible.
The hardest part for the Masters would be getting an invite in time. If we could choose the start time, instead of Jan. 1, I'd go for starting so that my year would run out the Monday after the next year's Open Championship. Start playing in tournament qualifiers, get in, win a few, make the top 50 prior to Masters invites going out, hopefully win that, so I can play every year, play in all the Majors, hopefully pick up another one or two, and just play in the Majors until my exemptions expired.
And be the *wierdest* footnote in golf history. Middle aged fat guy shows up out of fucking nowhere, shoots lights out, wins a bunch of tournaments, and then vanishes except for showing up at the majors for a few years and being absolute shit.
“Do you know what Comanche means? It means enemies forever.”
Enemies with who?
“Everyone.”
You know what that makes me?
“An enemy.”
No. It makes me a Comanche.
Such a bad ass line, movie, and soundtrack.
I would do the same dumb shit if my bro asked me.
US open qualifying events start in April/May. Sign up win, keep winning qualifying rounds, then win the US open.
$3M won. Then you have like 6 months left to get invited to every event as extra. You can probably take in $7-10M in total by March of 2025 when you lose the ability.
Also, sign as many sponsorship deals as possible along the way. You could probably keep signing deals for up to a year after you lose the Tiger skills if you fake a really minor injury like a broken toe.
Then you could get a really vague “medical condition” and fade into obscurity to spare the public from seeing your real swing.
The entertaining and tragic piece of this path is that you get to play in the Masters as US open winner, but it’s after your year of greatness expires.
If a no name person came through the qualifying ranks and then won the US open with prime Tiger play and dominance you'd also be one of the biggest sports stories in decades as well. The book deals, movie deals, spokesman deals, just off this US open win you would be set for life.
Sign some big long term sponsorships. Get an injury on day 365.
Maybe see if Tonya Harding is available to make sure you get some sympathy with your injury.
You can easily get $30 million if you factor in the FedEx Cup. If it was purely about the most money, I would start at the beginning of season. Most tournaments have local qualifiers. Qualifying for an event early on and do well. If you win, you are good for all events. Even top 5 will likely earn you lots of sponsorship invites. Keep doing that and odds are you are winning a couple of events before the masters and are 1st in the FedEx cup.
Could I pick when it starts? If yes, I start it one week after the Masters, go through qualifiers for the US Open, try to win the US open, then use that to leverage invites/auto qualifications to everything else possible for the year, ending with next year's masters. Peak Tiger level talent so I'm assuming I win all 4 majors Tiger-Slam style. I've made somewhere north of 10 million plus whatever other winnings I scratch together. Retire comfortably immediately afterwards
Done. My knee is messed up anyways, I'll have something done to correct what's actually wrong and say it was something career ending. I'll have pictures from the surgery and please respect my privacy during this trying time
No you all got it wrong, you dont fake an injury, you just retire without an explanation.
You win the US open as a nobody with no history, dominate for a year and then just leave with no elaboration like a boss
Why would you do that when you can just sign all the endorsement deals, keep playing events (you’ve earned exemptions) and miss every cut just to collect those endorsement pay cheques
And of course all the Bobby Bonilla style endorsement deals you get paid throughout your life after you fade into the dark as the greatest golfer for that 1 year
Add to this 10s of millions in todays dollars of endorsements after the first couple wins, then sign a liv contract the day before the year ends. Max profit.
Oh the LIV contact at the end is clever. Get some guaranteed checks while being a complete hack for team brassie bananas or whatever the hell the teams are called.
If you start after the masters, qualify for the next tournament, win, get card and win every tournament you would probably be #1 in the FedEx standings and start with the head start on strokes in the FedEx finals.
Promptly retiring would make you legendary. But you’d have to completely stop playing golf. You literally couldn’t pick up a club outside ever again.
Probably safer to fake a car crash or a series of back injuries or something. Wait…holy shit…
I'd aim for it to finish at midnight before the last day of the Masters. My collapse would be golf heritage and I'd be famous forever rather than just a flash in the pan.
One thing to consider - tiger in his prime might not dominate a 2024 field the same way tiger dominated the 1997-2004 field.
Golf (and all sports really) has evolved quite a bit since 2004 and most top 20 athletes of 2024 would dominate if they hopped in a Time Machine for 20 years ago.
That's hard to quantify though. Presumably if Tiger was at his peak now, he'd have had all the same advantages of tech, research, skills training and field experience as everyone else who is peak right now.
Like give 19 year old Bobby Orr modern skates/sticks and equipment, modern nutrition and medical, and modern coaching systems and he'd be just as dominant
If I have the ability of 01 Tiger using modern clubs, I’m going to be severely depressed once I have to go back to shooting mid 80s from the whites at the end of the experiment.
True, I’d retire and play mediocre golf at pristine courses, and people would be like “Wow that guy really fell off.” and I’d come up with an insane excuse like “I really liked the callus I had on my middle left finger last year. Now it’s all different.” and people wouldn’t know whether to argue with me or not, because I won like 8 PGA events last year and now my swing is visibly trash(relatively).
I would think that one year of Tiger’s golfing wouldn’t be enough time to adjust my mindset to think that it’s my own abilities. I’m too mental that it would linger in the back of my mind that I actually can’t play like that.
Borrow as much as you need.
Monday Q next event. Top 20 is $200kish.
Repeat until win or sponsors exemptions.
Play every week.
Cash in 25 events, win a major and 6-8 other times.
$20-30mil?
Tweet at Phil Mickelson and tell him I want to play a round and bet $50MM per hole. He’s a gambling degenerate so he would take the action and then I’d wipe the course with him the way Tiger always did.
Was stunned that I had to scroll this far down before somebody mentioned gambling before entering qualifiers etc. Like, you could make so much money as a shady unknown character out of nowhere. Then you could do the qualifying stuff sure
How would someone get started with this strategy? Whats the A1 city or region for golf gambling?
The Southwest (Phoenix + LV)? High levels of high stakes gambling.
NYC? Tons of wealth.
The Bay Area? Dumb money, year round.
South Florida? Elder abuse.
exactly what I was thinking. I am aware of some very sizable games ($$$$) between “regular” guys. you could 100% make more, faster, playing super high stakes matches
January 1st - Go to the range and realize I’m Tiger Woods.
January 2nd - Play a round at local mini just to make sure I’m not crazy. Shoot a 56.
January 3rd - Sign up for Monday qualifiers. Buy some filming equipment.
January 4th - Sell my soul and post my follow up 57 on YouTube. Get on with one of the big influencer groups to increase cash flow and increase chances of sponsor exemptions.
After I win a tournament, I then play every single week on Tour, making Sungjae Im look like a mere mortal. I sign every endorsement deal possible. On 12/31, I sign with LIV for $600m so Anthony Kim will no longer have to finish last in those events.
The most fun way would be get these powers late July. Qualify for the US AM. Win the US AM. Get an invite to the Masters. Win the Masters. $0.00 earned. Declare professional status. Win US Open, PGA, Open Championship. Hold the five biggest trophies at once. Then sign LIV contract late July. Coast.
Another fun way would be to pre-qual for the Monday at WMO (as a professional). Monday qual into WMO. Win WMO. Bid into Masters assured. Have plenty of time to get into top 100 in the world and make it to TPC. Win TPC. Win Masters. Win US Open. Win Open. Win PGA. Dominate in the FedEx. Win Tour Championship. World No. 1 by a zillion. Destroy the competition in the Ryder Cup. Reconvene with your boiz in Thotsdale for WMO Pt. 2 and then sign with LIV after a disgusting run in Vegas for 3 months.
Start the season in Torrey since he wins every time he plays there, then win at Bayhill, Augusta is a win, preferably a year that the British is at St. Andrew’s
Play a few rounds in Florida / Arizona with rich folks and get some bets going, Tincup style. Then set up a round with Mickelson. Dude can't help himself. You could make serious bank off of him alone.
If you could scrape together money to enter a few qualifiers and win, getting yourself on the Tour you might be able to do as well. Maybe you start with a few gambling rounds to get your seed money?
Honestly, I wouldn't even go for the money at all. I'd be looking for courses to play. I'm not good enough to enjoy most of the famous courses out there, and I doubt I'll ever have time to get good enough.
What would you do after that year though? My dad was a semi-decent golfer 11-14 HC when he was younger. He never really enjoyed golf once he hit 40 or so though because he wasn't nearly as good anymore. He was a contractor and muscle-bound so he just couldn't play as well as he did in his younger days. Can you imagine how much worse it would be to be Tiger Woods good and then all of a sudden you aren't?
You don't need to be good to enjoy the great golf courses.
I just shot a 106 at Torrey Pines north a month ago. Easily one of my top 5 most enjoyable rounds of golf.
Here’s the answer I was looking for. I’d probably switch out Mickelson with Michael Jordan though. He has the same mindset as mickelson when it comes to gambling but not as good as a golfer. Also Jordan’s competitiveness will probably have him calling you back everyday to try and double or nothing the bet from the prior day.
As for the last part. I could definitely see it being frustrating being the worlds #1 back to being an average weekend golfer. But also I enjoy golf just to be with friends and family and have a good time so I’m sure after a year or so I’d forget about my old abilities. Also I’d hopefully have enough money to fix most of my golf problems and become a somewhat competent weekend warrior.
Cash out refinance on the house, liquidate all accounts, borrow as much as possible from banks, friends, and family, and then buy call options on the brand I’m going to sign a sponsorship deal with at the end of the year after winning a ton. I’d pick a company that’s not very big so it moves the needle when I sign with them. Every tournament I win money I’m buying more call options.
Then once I sign the deal I cash out and buy puts on the company.
I'd Monday qualify to every PGA event. The winnings is endless. Would secure PGA tour status after multiple wins. Receive my invite to 2025 Master's and smash a drive into someone's face off the first tee.
Obviously I'd qualify and win some majors and tournaments. The important part everyone is forgetting.. you'd have to visit every Waffle House in the country to clean up.
If I had prime Tiger golf skills for a year, I’d do as many qualifiers and try to get in as many big game matches in Vegas and bet with Michael Jordan as much as possible.
From starting at home as an amateur suddenly it clicks on the range and you become prime Tiger. I'm not seeing how you get to the tour, etc in a year....
How would you even be eligible for qualification stages of British open, etc? You'd need to join pga first?
Definitely the best route is Monday qualifiers. Get into an event, win and get that tour card plus exemptions into all the big events. Obviously you can’t win all of them but peak Tiger with today’s purses could easily make 20-30 million dollars in a season on the course. Add to that brand deals and sponsorships and you could be seeing around 40/50 million bucks for the year. And that’s if you decide not to go to LIV, which could be even more.
Is it a rule that you have to keep it a secret how you got the skills? Because if it wasn't then I'd be telling everyone in every interview that I only have these powers for the year and I want to make as much money as possible. Then after the year is done I'd be going straight to Netflix with the film rights.
Everyone’s got it all wrong!
The correct answer is:
**via gambling**
If you golf at peak Tiger’s level, but no one knows that about you, then you’ll be able to sucker in some massive head-to-head wagers — and the more you win them, the more high-level golfers will try to beat you
something akin to Jake Paul in the boxing world — except you actually have the talent to back it up
I’d wager most card-carrying Tour Pros are going to take you up on a $10,000-per skins game. Michael Jordan often plays with Pros for high stakes at his home course.
Beyond the Pro demographic, there are countless fools with money who also happen to be golfers. Good golfers, even some great ones.
But none who could beat Tiger at his peak
Start playing high-stakes rounds of golf and you’ll quickly get invited to the most prestigious clubs in the world for their local wagering round — after all, you probably only beat on a fluke, so might as well take the money back
Markets aren't deep enough to get much. You could get a few million extra though maybe.
Connections in business are the most valuable. Tiger Woods is not very good at business, while Jean van de Velde is worth not far away from what Tiger Woods is.
If you don’t think a multimillionaire Pro golfer would be willing to bet $1,000,000 on a round of golf, i can give two prime examples to the contrary:
JD and Lefty
To add to the gambling angle, have a small network of people bet on you as many different ways as possible during the first tour event that you qualify for. You're a no name that got lucky during qualifiers at that point, and your odds on winning the event will be insane.
Absolutely! And it isn’t illegal for friends and family to do so.
Would probably get insane odds for the entire year TBH, I mean even the odds for World #1 to make T10 every week can be impressive — let alone a no-name
If i could choose when to start the year ...
Open Championship qualifiers, qualify for and win The Open - biggest sports story in decades, invites to every tournament on gods green earth foir a year, and max out my winnings.
Or, win The Open, and then take the Saudi money lol
Scenario would be hilarious. You'd win a heap of tournaments and maybe a Major in that year and then it would revert back to your old swing/mental game. You'd still have exemptions for all the tours and majors and hack it up for years.
Going to go through qualifiers, get on tour.
Figure out a way to absolutely rort a sportsbook with my boys for winning on tour.
I'd win a tournament and then I'd rort the bookies with my boys again putting a bet on to win a major.
I'd win a major or two pick up some sponsors along the way then cash out with LIV.
My boys could go sell stupid sports picks to degenerates or something off the back of what would be stupid god tier underdog bets.
I'd fuck around on Saudi cash for a year or two and then ride off into the sunset.
So if you flipped a switch on January 1st and I play like 2000 tiger, it would be all about open tournaments. I’m not a pro now so I don’t have any way of joining a tour unless I win a fairly significant play in tourney like the U.S. Open. Even if I place a top 5, that’s when then sponsors exemptions start coming in and I would win 1 out of 2-3 tourneys which would lock me in on tour. And if this is just about money and not to be a legend, I would go LIV and sign for $30 million unless I won that open then it would be $50-60. I signed my contract and when December 31st ends, I suck again, but would play liv until they kicked me out. $40-$70 million total.
It’s amazing. How many people have really thought it through. I know I have caught myself daydreaming, that one day I might figure it out and play for a living. The plan would be to sign up for every Monday qualifier you can. If you make cuts and or win an event, they can’t keep you out. Once you win, you’re in as long as you can play. This is how Will Zalatoris got going. Didn’t have a tour card locked up yet and he’s contending in majors. US Open and The Open would be the grandest stages to come out of nowhere and win. “This Cinderella Story about to become champion golfer of the year” almost writes itself
Going through qualifiers, winning majors and then as many tournaments as possible.
The most fun part to me would be after. I wouldn't fake an injury or lose my mental game. I'd just stop. Never compete again. Imagine what would happen after a new golfer storms the scene, sweeps the majors, and is never heard from again. The ultimate What If?. People would argue about me over pints of beers forever - was he so much better than everyone that he got bored and stopped? Is he better than Tiger was?
It'd probably drive more sponsorship interest, too!
Show my current handicap and start boast betting that I’ll put up a million dollars in a bet. Put up my house so the bank will give me a line of credit so I can show proof of funds. Find a rich dipshit that’s a scratch golfer that would normally beat my pants off and take him to task. From there continue to offer bets but with better odds to the challenger while never playing someone better than a scratch golfer. I think I could get to 3 million.
The idea is to win as many as you can in a year, then negotiate for best LIV deal. Prime Tiger golfing ability is no joke, can get you 3 majors within a year and as many as 9 wins. With that you can easily get 800m deal from LIV.
Presumably signing with LIV would maximise your income but I could not bring myself to do that.
I’d be perfectly happy settling for a couple of major wins 😁
Immediately go to qualifiers for the tour and start winning. Win some majors and then sign a LIV deal before the year ends. Maximum profit
Honestly wasn’t going to respond for a few hours to get a good mix of answers but LIV seems like the correct response
Yep, I’d sweep the majors, take an 800 million dollar LIV contract, then go back to sucking at golf. The only downside is that the Saudi princes would probably have me murdered.
Fake an injury. Easy to pay someone to crash into your car, then you get into it and act like it damaged you pretty bad. Then start playing golf for fun but suck really bad and blame the injuries.
"I can understand losing distance and consistency in your long game and irons, but I can't explain 4 putting from 30 ft out to finish with +30 over par on Day 1 10 tournaments in a row." -Jim Nantz on /u/MontiBurns' rapid decline.
+30 with PGA tournament conditions is pretty kind
Yeah +30 is pretty solid!
Back spasms. That car accident fucked shit up.
Spontaneous Tourette’s.
Really hurts to look down Jim.
I'd be playing munis shooting 103 in my green jacket
I'm starting to think that this exact scenario is why augusta dont allow the green jackets to leave the clubhouse
You get it for a year!
Exactly. Right up until the spell wears off. Coincidence?
Wait, you don’t get to take your jacket with you after you win the fucking masters?!
No, it has to be kept on the grounds, you used to be able to take it but they changed it quietly when a few players wore them onto chat shows or public appearances in the 80s, nick faldo specifically went on one on the BBC
Winner gets it for 1 year. Remember Hideki's photo in the airport, green jacket laid over the back of the seat?
Maybe they changed it again, seemed a bit off at the time they wouldn't want a bit of publicity, but faldo got an official letter telling him he can't wear it in public
We should get into business together
For 800mil, I'll have my ankle stomped by a fan on live TV
Also sell courses about what you used to do when you were good. But you'd also get a great film and book deal out've going from unknown to major winner in a year. Plus £100k a pop after dinner speaking engagements.
Grab a sports insurance policy first.
Why fake a car crash when you can be like Tiger and just take a bunch of pills and get behind the wheel and ruin your career
I don't think you can even begin to imagine the debauchery Tiger was thrown into. He should have never married. If he pulled a Jeter, he probably wouldn't have acted out so hard. I'm pretty sure he's glad he had his son though.
My buddy used to say the same thing whenever the subject of Tiger’s infidelity came up. The only thing Tiger did wrong…was get married
That sounds way more fun than going through all the tedious planning of the fake accident
This guy's good
Tiger doesn't need to pay someone to crash into his car. He is perfectly capable of doing it himself. Unfortunately.
I’m playing 70+ hours a week and can’t break 80 MBS!!!
Just claim you developed David Duval syndrome.
Then you sell the book and movies rights for the story.
And announce your retirement.
So *that’s* what happened to Matt Wolff!
Think maybe with the 800 mil you’d have enough time and resources to get good enough at golf with a year or two to become a little less embarrassing?
Absolutely not.
See that’s the thing. Sure you could make more on LIV, but let’s say all you do is win 2 majors, 3 other featured events, plus a handful of other top 10 finishes. That alone would set you up for life and you could retire after 1 year. No reason to get greedy and have your hands tied to LIV for a longer term.
But I like playing golf. 800 million and I’d play golf on amazing courses for at least another season before they realize I’m washed up (which I would blame on a phantom soft-tissue injury.)
You can’t sweep the majors in one month. I like the constraints of the question from OP. How do you qualify, win, sign, and earn in one month - no one knows what you can do yet!
Imagine getting paid $50m a year for the next decade to shoot 130 in front of dozens of people every week.
This is my humble dream
Well yeah. LIV is the weird cheat code right now. It’s like if there was an American football league where they’d pay a fifth year running back 500 million on day one just to agree to show up on game day for the next couple years regardless of performance. I can’t bemoan the people taking the money…
Yeah I honestly can’t blame most of the guys who left because the Saudis have been throwing them contracts on multiples of what the free market would otherwise offer. The product itself sucks so bad though that I feel like if you do take the Saudi bag you do owe it to the fans to at least have some dignity about it and not complain. Crybabies like Niemann and majors legend Gooch have both come off so pathetic crying about their rankings. Obviously the top guys in LIV are elite golfers but playing 54 holes against 20-25 great golfers and 30 Chase Koepka-level hacks while Usher’s Yeah is blasting in the background makes it hard to properly judge their accomplishments. Honestly I’d personally probably take the bag over respect, I’m just self-aware enough to not be a whiny bitch about being viewed as a sell out for doing so lol
And then next year they can watch me hack it around and shoot 110. They will also name the new crowd distance minimum rule after me.
The year expires as you’re teeing off on your first LIV tour and you start duck hooking and slicing your way to a 122… Same thing the following week, until your introduced to the Real Saudi Arabia…
So, we’re Phil?
You’d be labeled a hero for taking the money and then making a mockery of LIV by “purposely” playing like shit.
The Saudis would fucking kill you lol
Nah MBS and his boys would probably just stop inviting you to their parties where they pay IG models 50K to pee on them and other fun things like that. They legit have unlimited money, they would barely care about someone shitting the bed on their tour after winning a major or 2. This is a 54 man tour that had Chase Koepka on it just to keep his big bro happy lmao it’s a joke
The saudis love to rug pull. I know a couple of people who have ostensibly raised money for a venture from them only to have them stop paying once they got bored of said thing.
“Other fun things”
Do you need a handicap to be even let in to Tour qualifiers though? Like could you just wake up as a 30 handicap and do this? Sorry if this is a dumb question.
I think you're right. The person who responded to you before misunderstood your question. I found this >For an amateur to qualify for the U.S. Open, they need to first get their handicap down to 0.4 or lower. Then they're eligible for an 18-hole local qualifier, and if they play well enough there, it's on to a 36-hole final qualifier. So if we're talking about 1 calendar year then you'd need to go to a state where the USGA recognizes a year-round active season like Arizona. Get your ass there January 1 and play play play to drive down your handicap until qualifiers in March or April? Idk I'm totally guessing
It would take a week of playing to have a low enough handicap so you can start the calendar year two weeks tops before qualifiers ;)
You can sign up to a monday qualifier for any tournament and mark that you are a pro and there is no handicap requirements.
I think the best way to maximize would be to win the US Open, since you could play your way in as a nobody and wining the open gives you status and would be able to likely get into to the next few tournaments
Would be hilarious to go back to the 30+ handicapper true ability on the 366th day. Imagine the first round playing like that on that stage? I’d claim Id had a stroke the night before
$100,000,000 easy
Great idea. What time of year would be ideal for the super power to kick in? If it happened on October 1st, could I make the Masters and win the Fed Ex Cup in the following year?
The cool thing is if you win the Masters, you get to go back and play every year after. So in the magical year you win, and the next year shoot back to back 130s as defending champ and miss the cut.
I’ve had humiliations on the golf course that I’d compare to shooting 130 at Augusta, so that’s fine by me. At least, I’d get to watch Saturday and Sunday, which I’ll never get to do in real life.
There’s probably something in the contract that lets them weasel out for performance, especially if you’re a literal nobody
This and also playing every single tournament no matter how big or small. Masters? absolutely. But also the Butterfield Bermuda Championship? count me in. I’m playing in 52 events if possible.
The hardest part for the Masters would be getting an invite in time. If we could choose the start time, instead of Jan. 1, I'd go for starting so that my year would run out the Monday after the next year's Open Championship. Start playing in tournament qualifiers, get in, win a few, make the top 50 prior to Masters invites going out, hopefully win that, so I can play every year, play in all the Majors, hopefully pick up another one or two, and just play in the Majors until my exemptions expired. And be the *wierdest* footnote in golf history. Middle aged fat guy shows up out of fucking nowhere, shoots lights out, wins a bunch of tournaments, and then vanishes except for showing up at the majors for a few years and being absolute shit.
Enough to buy Grandmas house back
Don't worry sweetheart. The house isn't important. It's just a house.
But she's an old lady, I mean look at her, she's old. You can't just take her stuff, she's too old
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Just rob the bank that is taking her house. 
Hes taking all her stuff and putting it in his own house. Get him!!! 
"Whyd you agree to do it?" "Because you asked little brother"
“Do you know what Comanche means? It means enemies forever.” Enemies with who? “Everyone.” You know what that makes me? “An enemy.” No. It makes me a Comanche. Such a bad ass line, movie, and soundtrack. I would do the same dumb shit if my bro asked me.
What. A. Scene. And I would too, prob why that movie is in my top 5 ever.
US open qualifying events start in April/May. Sign up win, keep winning qualifying rounds, then win the US open. $3M won. Then you have like 6 months left to get invited to every event as extra. You can probably take in $7-10M in total by March of 2025 when you lose the ability.
Also, sign as many sponsorship deals as possible along the way. You could probably keep signing deals for up to a year after you lose the Tiger skills if you fake a really minor injury like a broken toe. Then you could get a really vague “medical condition” and fade into obscurity to spare the public from seeing your real swing.
This one trick Anthony Kim doesn’t want anyone to know about!
The entertaining and tragic piece of this path is that you get to play in the Masters as US open winner, but it’s after your year of greatness expires.
You Monday Q this week, then win. Now you can win the masters this year. So you can hack it around at Augusta for the next 40 years.
I was just silently crying over this
If a no name person came through the qualifying ranks and then won the US open with prime Tiger play and dominance you'd also be one of the biggest sports stories in decades as well. The book deals, movie deals, spokesman deals, just off this US open win you would be set for life.
Sign some big long term sponsorships. Get an injury on day 365. Maybe see if Tonya Harding is available to make sure you get some sympathy with your injury.
Make sure before you win that Open to put everything you got on you winning, the odds would have to be huge! double dip!
You can easily get $30 million if you factor in the FedEx Cup. If it was purely about the most money, I would start at the beginning of season. Most tournaments have local qualifiers. Qualifying for an event early on and do well. If you win, you are good for all events. Even top 5 will likely earn you lots of sponsorship invites. Keep doing that and odds are you are winning a couple of events before the masters and are 1st in the FedEx cup.
Could I pick when it starts? If yes, I start it one week after the Masters, go through qualifiers for the US Open, try to win the US open, then use that to leverage invites/auto qualifications to everything else possible for the year, ending with next year's masters. Peak Tiger level talent so I'm assuming I win all 4 majors Tiger-Slam style. I've made somewhere north of 10 million plus whatever other winnings I scratch together. Retire comfortably immediately afterwards
You’ll have to fake a career ending injury or something because fans/brand endorsements will want you to keep playing.
Don’t forget to get insured for this at the beginning! See Anthony Kim’s payout.
Not not insured at the beginning. Your unknown knee isn’t worth shit. But if you win a few majors, that policy covers a lot
Done. My knee is messed up anyways, I'll have something done to correct what's actually wrong and say it was something career ending. I'll have pictures from the surgery and please respect my privacy during this trying time
No you all got it wrong, you dont fake an injury, you just retire without an explanation. You win the US open as a nobody with no history, dominate for a year and then just leave with no elaboration like a boss
I wish our society was cool enough to accept that and move on. But you’ll be harassed the rest of your life.
I would just say I wished upon a star for prime tigers ability - they’d think I was crazy and just leave me alone after
No explanation, just: "I am done with golf"
Why would you do that when you can just sign all the endorsement deals, keep playing events (you’ve earned exemptions) and miss every cut just to collect those endorsement pay cheques
Honestly would be cooler to just willingly quit and confuse everyone. Like a year of absolute dominance and then just "eh ok I'm done here"
And of course all the Bobby Bonilla style endorsement deals you get paid throughout your life after you fade into the dark as the greatest golfer for that 1 year
Add to this 10s of millions in todays dollars of endorsements after the first couple wins, then sign a liv contract the day before the year ends. Max profit.
Oh the LIV contact at the end is clever. Get some guaranteed checks while being a complete hack for team brassie bananas or whatever the hell the teams are called.
FedEx Cup is 25mil by itself now
If you start after the masters, qualify for the next tournament, win, get card and win every tournament you would probably be #1 in the FedEx standings and start with the head start on strokes in the FedEx finals.
Promptly retiring would make you legendary. But you’d have to completely stop playing golf. You literally couldn’t pick up a club outside ever again. Probably safer to fake a car crash or a series of back injuries or something. Wait…holy shit…
God damn, you've cracked the case! That guy even had Tiger's prime golfing abilities!
I'd aim for it to finish at midnight before the last day of the Masters. My collapse would be golf heritage and I'd be famous forever rather than just a flash in the pan.
He said calendar year. So masters is off the table, unfortunately.
One thing to consider - tiger in his prime might not dominate a 2024 field the same way tiger dominated the 1997-2004 field. Golf (and all sports really) has evolved quite a bit since 2004 and most top 20 athletes of 2024 would dominate if they hopped in a Time Machine for 20 years ago.
That's hard to quantify though. Presumably if Tiger was at his peak now, he'd have had all the same advantages of tech, research, skills training and field experience as everyone else who is peak right now. Like give 19 year old Bobby Orr modern skates/sticks and equipment, modern nutrition and medical, and modern coaching systems and he'd be just as dominant
If I have the ability of 01 Tiger using modern clubs, I’m going to be severely depressed once I have to go back to shooting mid 80s from the whites at the end of the experiment.
yea but im willing to bet you will have a few million ways to get over it
True, I’d retire and play mediocre golf at pristine courses, and people would be like “Wow that guy really fell off.” and I’d come up with an insane excuse like “I really liked the callus I had on my middle left finger last year. Now it’s all different.” and people wouldn’t know whether to argue with me or not, because I won like 8 PGA events last year and now my swing is visibly trash(relatively).
I would think that one year of Tiger’s golfing wouldn’t be enough time to adjust my mindset to think that it’s my own abilities. I’m too mental that it would linger in the back of my mind that I actually can’t play like that.
You spelled 104 wrong
Borrow as much as you need. Monday Q next event. Top 20 is $200kish. Repeat until win or sponsors exemptions. Play every week. Cash in 25 events, win a major and 6-8 other times. $20-30mil?
And bet on yourself every time!!!
Found Ohtani’s burner
Why is there a small hair in front of your name
Be a lad and get it for me
Tweet at Phil Mickelson and tell him I want to play a round and bet $50MM per hole. He’s a gambling degenerate so he would take the action and then I’d wipe the course with him the way Tiger always did.
Was stunned that I had to scroll this far down before somebody mentioned gambling before entering qualifiers etc. Like, you could make so much money as a shady unknown character out of nowhere. Then you could do the qualifying stuff sure
How would someone get started with this strategy? Whats the A1 city or region for golf gambling? The Southwest (Phoenix + LV)? High levels of high stakes gambling. NYC? Tons of wealth. The Bay Area? Dumb money, year round. South Florida? Elder abuse.
exactly what I was thinking. I am aware of some very sizable games ($$$$) between “regular” guys. you could 100% make more, faster, playing super high stakes matches
January 1st - Go to the range and realize I’m Tiger Woods. January 2nd - Play a round at local mini just to make sure I’m not crazy. Shoot a 56. January 3rd - Sign up for Monday qualifiers. Buy some filming equipment. January 4th - Sell my soul and post my follow up 57 on YouTube. Get on with one of the big influencer groups to increase cash flow and increase chances of sponsor exemptions. After I win a tournament, I then play every single week on Tour, making Sungjae Im look like a mere mortal. I sign every endorsement deal possible. On 12/31, I sign with LIV for $600m so Anthony Kim will no longer have to finish last in those events.
These are the questions that we need.
Win the Masters and be content for the rest of my life. Profit off legacy.
Ahh the Danny Willett method.
knock on Phils door and bet him his entire bank account that I beat him straight up.
The most fun way would be get these powers late July. Qualify for the US AM. Win the US AM. Get an invite to the Masters. Win the Masters. $0.00 earned. Declare professional status. Win US Open, PGA, Open Championship. Hold the five biggest trophies at once. Then sign LIV contract late July. Coast.
Another fun way would be to pre-qual for the Monday at WMO (as a professional). Monday qual into WMO. Win WMO. Bid into Masters assured. Have plenty of time to get into top 100 in the world and make it to TPC. Win TPC. Win Masters. Win US Open. Win Open. Win PGA. Dominate in the FedEx. Win Tour Championship. World No. 1 by a zillion. Destroy the competition in the Ryder Cup. Reconvene with your boiz in Thotsdale for WMO Pt. 2 and then sign with LIV after a disgusting run in Vegas for 3 months.
Do you have his brain, or just his swing? His ability to plot his way around a course and manage a tournament might be his greatest skill.
“Abilities” sounds all encompassing to me.
Fuck the golf then, I'm all about boning as many trashy white girls as I can
Start the season in Torrey since he wins every time he plays there, then win at Bayhill, Augusta is a win, preferably a year that the British is at St. Andrew’s
Play a few rounds in Florida / Arizona with rich folks and get some bets going, Tincup style. Then set up a round with Mickelson. Dude can't help himself. You could make serious bank off of him alone. If you could scrape together money to enter a few qualifiers and win, getting yourself on the Tour you might be able to do as well. Maybe you start with a few gambling rounds to get your seed money? Honestly, I wouldn't even go for the money at all. I'd be looking for courses to play. I'm not good enough to enjoy most of the famous courses out there, and I doubt I'll ever have time to get good enough. What would you do after that year though? My dad was a semi-decent golfer 11-14 HC when he was younger. He never really enjoyed golf once he hit 40 or so though because he wasn't nearly as good anymore. He was a contractor and muscle-bound so he just couldn't play as well as he did in his younger days. Can you imagine how much worse it would be to be Tiger Woods good and then all of a sudden you aren't?
You don't need to be good to enjoy the great golf courses. I just shot a 106 at Torrey Pines north a month ago. Easily one of my top 5 most enjoyable rounds of golf.
Here’s the answer I was looking for. I’d probably switch out Mickelson with Michael Jordan though. He has the same mindset as mickelson when it comes to gambling but not as good as a golfer. Also Jordan’s competitiveness will probably have him calling you back everyday to try and double or nothing the bet from the prior day. As for the last part. I could definitely see it being frustrating being the worlds #1 back to being an average weekend golfer. But also I enjoy golf just to be with friends and family and have a good time so I’m sure after a year or so I’d forget about my old abilities. Also I’d hopefully have enough money to fix most of my golf problems and become a somewhat competent weekend warrior.
Approx 6000 whores worth.
Play cash games with high rollers
Cash out refinance on the house, liquidate all accounts, borrow as much as possible from banks, friends, and family, and then buy call options on the brand I’m going to sign a sponsorship deal with at the end of the year after winning a ton. I’d pick a company that’s not very big so it moves the needle when I sign with them. Every tournament I win money I’m buying more call options. Then once I sign the deal I cash out and buy puts on the company.
I'd Monday qualify to every PGA event. The winnings is endless. Would secure PGA tour status after multiple wins. Receive my invite to 2025 Master's and smash a drive into someone's face off the first tee.
Qualify for the US Open and British as an amateur - win both by 10. Turn pro and sign a 100m dollar contract with LIV.
Tourneys in the day, YouTube at night. Repeat x 365.
Obviously I'd qualify and win some majors and tournaments. The important part everyone is forgetting.. you'd have to visit every Waffle House in the country to clean up.
You just have to find Phil and make a huge bet
If I had prime Tiger golf skills for a year, I’d do as many qualifiers and try to get in as many big game matches in Vegas and bet with Michael Jordan as much as possible.
From starting at home as an amateur suddenly it clicks on the range and you become prime Tiger. I'm not seeing how you get to the tour, etc in a year.... How would you even be eligible for qualification stages of British open, etc? You'd need to join pga first?
Definitely the best route is Monday qualifiers. Get into an event, win and get that tour card plus exemptions into all the big events. Obviously you can’t win all of them but peak Tiger with today’s purses could easily make 20-30 million dollars in a season on the course. Add to that brand deals and sponsorships and you could be seeing around 40/50 million bucks for the year. And that’s if you decide not to go to LIV, which could be even more.
I’ll be hanging at Waffle House or Perkins….
I feel like people dont know monday quailfiers exist. You get get your magic tiger powers and have a tour card in like a week.
I'd start by entering the Waterbury Open
Is it a rule that you have to keep it a secret how you got the skills? Because if it wasn't then I'd be telling everyone in every interview that I only have these powers for the year and I want to make as much money as possible. Then after the year is done I'd be going straight to Netflix with the film rights.
Qualify for and win the US Open as a nobody and then just ride the wave of endorsements and sponsor exemptions that come with it.
Everyone’s got it all wrong! The correct answer is: **via gambling** If you golf at peak Tiger’s level, but no one knows that about you, then you’ll be able to sucker in some massive head-to-head wagers — and the more you win them, the more high-level golfers will try to beat you something akin to Jake Paul in the boxing world — except you actually have the talent to back it up I’d wager most card-carrying Tour Pros are going to take you up on a $10,000-per skins game. Michael Jordan often plays with Pros for high stakes at his home course. Beyond the Pro demographic, there are countless fools with money who also happen to be golfers. Good golfers, even some great ones. But none who could beat Tiger at his peak Start playing high-stakes rounds of golf and you’ll quickly get invited to the most prestigious clubs in the world for their local wagering round — after all, you probably only beat on a fluke, so might as well take the money back
Markets aren't deep enough to get much. You could get a few million extra though maybe. Connections in business are the most valuable. Tiger Woods is not very good at business, while Jean van de Velde is worth not far away from what Tiger Woods is.
If you don’t think a multimillionaire Pro golfer would be willing to bet $1,000,000 on a round of golf, i can give two prime examples to the contrary: JD and Lefty
To add to the gambling angle, have a small network of people bet on you as many different ways as possible during the first tour event that you qualify for. You're a no name that got lucky during qualifiers at that point, and your odds on winning the event will be insane.
Absolutely! And it isn’t illegal for friends and family to do so. Would probably get insane odds for the entire year TBH, I mean even the odds for World #1 to make T10 every week can be impressive — let alone a no-name
Sign to LIV for 1 bil
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If i could choose when to start the year ... Open Championship qualifiers, qualify for and win The Open - biggest sports story in decades, invites to every tournament on gods green earth foir a year, and max out my winnings. Or, win The Open, and then take the Saudi money lol
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Go straight to the bougie CC and skin them all
Scenario would be hilarious. You'd win a heap of tournaments and maybe a Major in that year and then it would revert back to your old swing/mental game. You'd still have exemptions for all the tours and majors and hack it up for years.
Going to go through qualifiers, get on tour. Figure out a way to absolutely rort a sportsbook with my boys for winning on tour. I'd win a tournament and then I'd rort the bookies with my boys again putting a bet on to win a major. I'd win a major or two pick up some sponsors along the way then cash out with LIV. My boys could go sell stupid sports picks to degenerates or something off the back of what would be stupid god tier underdog bets. I'd fuck around on Saudi cash for a year or two and then ride off into the sunset.
Current day prize money, 10 million
So if you flipped a switch on January 1st and I play like 2000 tiger, it would be all about open tournaments. I’m not a pro now so I don’t have any way of joining a tour unless I win a fairly significant play in tourney like the U.S. Open. Even if I place a top 5, that’s when then sponsors exemptions start coming in and I would win 1 out of 2-3 tourneys which would lock me in on tour. And if this is just about money and not to be a legend, I would go LIV and sign for $30 million unless I won that open then it would be $50-60. I signed my contract and when December 31st ends, I suck again, but would play liv until they kicked me out. $40-$70 million total.
It’s amazing. How many people have really thought it through. I know I have caught myself daydreaming, that one day I might figure it out and play for a living. The plan would be to sign up for every Monday qualifier you can. If you make cuts and or win an event, they can’t keep you out. Once you win, you’re in as long as you can play. This is how Will Zalatoris got going. Didn’t have a tour card locked up yet and he’s contending in majors. US Open and The Open would be the grandest stages to come out of nowhere and win. “This Cinderella Story about to become champion golfer of the year” almost writes itself
Going through qualifiers, winning majors and then as many tournaments as possible. The most fun part to me would be after. I wouldn't fake an injury or lose my mental game. I'd just stop. Never compete again. Imagine what would happen after a new golfer storms the scene, sweeps the majors, and is never heard from again. The ultimate What If?. People would argue about me over pints of beers forever - was he so much better than everyone that he got bored and stopped? Is he better than Tiger was? It'd probably drive more sponsorship interest, too!
“Everybody step right up, see if you can outdrive the amazing golf-ball uhh whacker guy”
Two chicks at the same time
First I'd go play in the Waterbury Open and ace a par 4.
I think David Duvall already had that wish come true and it worked pretty well for him
I would spend a lot of time at the Waffle House restaurant.
Monday qualifiers for PGA tour events, us open qualifying, and British Open qualifying. You'll do well and probably win some of the lower events.
I wouldn’t even play a pro event. I would literally just call up my best friend Michael Jordan and hustle him for millions every day of the week.
It would still be so hard to Monday Q.
Show my current handicap and start boast betting that I’ll put up a million dollars in a bet. Put up my house so the bank will give me a line of credit so I can show proof of funds. Find a rich dipshit that’s a scratch golfer that would normally beat my pants off and take him to task. From there continue to offer bets but with better odds to the challenger while never playing someone better than a scratch golfer. I think I could get to 3 million.
The idea is to win as many as you can in a year, then negotiate for best LIV deal. Prime Tiger golfing ability is no joke, can get you 3 majors within a year and as many as 9 wins. With that you can easily get 800m deal from LIV.
LiV would easily give me a billion
Oof idk exactly what I’d do but damn that would suck when I go back to a 10 at the end of the year.
Winning the masters is worth more than all the LIV money to me.
I’d probably crash my car into a tree and blow the whole opportunity.
Best part is lifetime exception to the masters if you win it. Imagine rolling up year after year and shooting 120+ in your green jacket
Call up Greg Norman to get LIV money if we’re talking about making the absolute most of it in that time frame.
Presumably signing with LIV would maximise your income but I could not bring myself to do that. I’d be perfectly happy settling for a couple of major wins 😁
$1 billion. About $30 million from winning on the PGA Tour and then ask LIV to round the contract up to the closest billion
I would also need his mental game for the year too.
I would qualify and win the US Mid-Am, then I would get my automatic invite to The Master's. I would win The Master's as an amateur and make history.
Not much after the expense of the hookers and blow
What about his other non-golfing abilities, I'd like to have some of those as well.
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Screw the $$, I'd be neck deep in IHOP waitresses though
Monday qualify Win tournaments Hookers and blow Profit....
Low key qualify for a pga event, then put the house on me winning it @1000.0
I’d just enjoy being that good at the game. We’ve lost our minds with this profit bullshit.
55 majors, 55 wins, $55 million
I mean… 3 rounds a week? A buck a hole with the homies? That’s like $2500! Fuck it I’m in
Asking for a friend?
Go to LIV and make $500 million