Jack Nicklaus: Tiger Woods will ‘kill everybody’ on senior tour; LIV a ‘powerful addition’
Jack Nicklaus: Tiger Woods ‘kills everybody’ on Grand Tours. LIV \’Strong Supplement\’
Jack Nicklaus appeared on “Golf Central” Wednesday night to discuss a variety of topics in the sport of golf.
Of course, part of the discussion was about Tiger Woods. Nicklaus Woods says that at age 48 and even after all the injuries he’s had, he “thinks he can do anything he wants to do.” He said he was excited to compete again and called Woods “a great addition” to the PGA Tour’s policy committee. He didn’t see Woods pass and he didn’t even reach 18 majors. “If he was healthy, I think it was a problem, but he wasn’t healthy,” Nicklaus said. “… I got mad at him.
Nicklaus then added of his major record, “Oh, I think it’s going to stand for a while.”
He also had this to say about Woods, who is expected to add another level of competition in the coming years: “I think Tiger is playing in the big tournament. He can get into the wagon and kill everyone.
Here’s an excerpt from Nicklaus’ segment:
Backspin golf ball: “When I backspin the golf ball…”
Ongoing PGA Tour-LIV golf talk: “I talked to Jay [Monahan] three weeks ago. We were talking and I said, “Jay, don’t tell me what you’re doing. I don’t want to know, because Rich Lerner is going to ask me about it, and if I don’t know, I don’t have to answer the question. So I don’t know where it goes. . I hope they put it all together for the good of golf. LIV has been a powerful addition to the game and may have had a bigger impact than we thought, but it will continue to do so.
On Monahan in particular: “I know Jay got beat up, but I’ve always supported Jay. “Everything Jay did was in the best interest of golf and the tour.”
