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Tiger Woods has club companies shipping their wares to his house

Tiger Woods has a lot of golf clubs at his house. (PGA Tour)
Tiger Woods has a lot of golf clubs at his house. (PGA Tour)

Tiger Woods hasn’t played competitive golf in more than a year, and, at a minimum, he won’t play again until October. However, he’s one of the biggest equipment free agents in golf.

The 14-time major champion has been a Nike Golf staffer for the bulk of his 20 years on the PGA Tour, and now he’s a man without an equipment manufacturer. Nike announced after the PGA Championship that it will no longer make golf clubs, balls and bags, leaving Woods and the litany Nike Golf staffers to secure a new equipment sponsor.

While there are rumors of who could outfit Woods next, the equipment makers have not been shy in getting their equipment in front of him.

Woods’ friend and Stanford teammate Notah Begay III said on Golf Channel that Woods’ Jupiter, Fla., dining room looks more like a big-box pro shop than where he and his kids might eat dinner.

“I walked into his dining room and it was like going into a PGA [Tour] Superstore now that Nike’s equipment line no longer exists,” Begay said on Golf Channel. “Every single manufacturer had sent equipment in there, and he’s trying a variety of different things, trying to get a sense of where he’s going to go from this point on.”

That volume of equipment sounds like what has also happened to Nike staffer Rory McIlroy, who said last week at The Barclays that he doesn’t intend to pick up a new equipment sponsor at least into 2017.

Woods has still not indicated specifically when he return to competition. However, he did briefly appear haphazardly on the Barstool Sports “Pardon My Take” podcast with guest Scott Van Pelt of ESPN, saying he would return “in the future.”


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