Too bad: Nike Is Being Petty’: Golf Fans Left Livid as Ice-Cold Tiger Woods slumped
Too bad: Nike Is Being Petty’: Golf Fans Left Livid as Ice-Cold Tiger Woods slumped
The Tiger Woods-Nike split has been doing its rounds on social media. The 48-year-old golfer had spent the longest time wearing and playing with Nike on the greens. When he reigned supreme in the early part of this millennium, dominating championships in the early 2000s and 2010s, Nike was by his side. Things started to change in 2016 when Nike exited the golf equipment business and focused solely on apparel.
The news of their split officially broke on the morning of January 8, 2024. This came as a shock to many fans, some of whom had seen Nike stand by the golfer during his infamous cheating scandal of 2009 when most of his other partner brands like Gatorade and Gillette slashed their deals with him. It’s hard to comprehend that this partnership, which once won so many titles, including a legendary four-peat at the Bay Hill Invitational, will no longer be seen together. These days, the pro can often be seen wearing Sunday red on his sleeves and carrying around TaylorMade equipment. Although this news is recent, it seems that little is known about the real trade-off. The news has been relatively kept under wraps until now, but some facts about Tiger Woods’ breakup with Nike are slowly emerging. In a recent post about X from Dan Rapaport on X, we see that Nike removed the TW logo from the back strip of his ‘13s tiger.
Tommy Flitwood has been wearing a tiger No. 13 since last year. Nike has since taken the TW logo off.
It’s not hard to see that the fans were not pleased. Some fans seem to think that Nike will be fine and that Tiger Woods will actually lose a great partner who made him successful.
Nike was doing well before Tiger. They can do without Tiger.
It’s hard to imagine that Peak Tiger would look this cool in TaylorMade. There were few who recalled old times, thinking about the time when their cooperation produced some of the greatest sports products in the world. One fan thinks that these same shoes were one of the best of the linems created for
- playing golf.
