Paul Goydos is funny. He's also giving -- he's the dude who let Sergio Garcia win this year's Players Championship. Anyway, during last week's AT & T National, Goydos was asked if the winners of this year's British Open and PGA Championship should have an asterisk by their names since Eldrick's laid up in Florida. Mr. Goydos, if you please: "Then we need to put an asterisk next to all 18 of Jack's majors, because Tiger didn't play in any of those."
Golf.com's John Garrity agrees with Godyos, but has a slightly different take:
I say there should be no asterisk because whoever wins the next two majors will have beaten the same field that Tiger outclassed to win his 14 major championships –- i.e., everybody but Tiger. It would actually devalue Tiger's accomplishments to say that another golfer isn't worthy of respect when he beats the very same players under major-championship conditions.Frankly, it might be going a bit too far to start passing out asterisks since Tiger is currently disabled. I mean, it's not like he was winning every tournament he entered. A better use of the asterisk might be for those rare instances when John Daly makes a cut, or Phil Mickelson only carries five wedges or more than two drivers. You know, the truly important stuff.
