Next decade of golf

Don't know that there are many golf fans here but I'll ask anyway.
To me this list best represents the future of professional golf and those who are most likely to dominate it.  There are only two names on this list who have hit the age 30, and they are just barely over.  If everyone stays healthy the next decade+ promises to be very entertaining. 
Who do you think dominates (wins the most big events) in the next decade of golf?

By the way, don't say Tiger.. he is D-O-N-E, DONE.

Bobby Jones

Okay I am sticking with my pick.

Tiger Woods.  Number two on the all time PGA win totals list  (Sam Sneed has 82, Tiger has 79).  With the closest active player today sitting 37 wins BEHIND Tiger.  Every time Tiger tees it up in a tournament he has the potential of taking another step closer to history.  If he can make it back to tour play, from his most recent back surgery, I'll be watching him.  And he still has a chance at eclipsing the majors all time total of 18, remember Ben Hogan won six majors after a near fatal car accident where doctors told him he'd never walk again.  Anything is possible.

Since nobody has actually voted, though, I'm going to go ahead and side with Jordan Spieth narrowly over Day.  Big McIlroy fan, as well, but he's shown a tendency toward self-inflicted setbacks (the Nike deal cost him a season, the engagement, the soccer injury, putting woes) that Jordan hasn't.  If Spieth can steer clear of the pitfalls of swing changes, equipment changes, and women then he could smash Jack's major record.

manofmystery wrote: Tiger Woods is DONE.  Too many injuries, both physical and mental.  His swing is completely unreliable and his mental game is in shambles.  It's unlikely he'll ever be completely healthy again and, even when he was, last year he's played like junk.  That and the competition is drastically better than it ever was in the pathetic era that was his prime.  Could see him winning at Bay Hill, Muirfield Village, or Torrey Pines again but never another major.  Certainly no way in hell, at age 40 (be 40 in December), he'll dominate the next decade in his best case scenario.

manofmystery wrote: Tiger will also probably be in a wheelchair.  Even if he is healthy he's completely lost his swing and his mental game.  In his last decent performance he gone blown past on the weekend by a field of web.comers and by a senior tour guy that he used to own.  No intimidation, much better competition level, constant and pathetic swing changes, 40 years old in December, injuries that won't go away.  There's nothing in there that spells success.  Every athlete loses it at some point, no matter who they are, and he's lost it.

I assume you're talking about the Wyndham Championship where Tiger finished tied for 10th place. (less than three weeks later Tiger had back surgery to remove a disk fragment)  Davis Love III who won the tournament was age 51. That gives Tiger at least another 11 years to win a few more tournaments.  In 2014 there was a movie called 'The Imitation Game'.  In it there was a quote that fits Tiger (and his whole career) to a 'tee', "Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine."

Edited by dwill123 - November 14 2015 at 16:53

I don't care how big a draw he is.  He's done and I couldn't be happier.  Was a jerk and a cheater who had no respect for the game, media, or fans.  It's shame he's had the following he's had.  His results deserved all the respect in the world but the player, himself, did not.  All that said, I'm still not sure what point you're trying to make about him possibly winning a another couple tournaments.  Picking up a handful more regular tour events (which I doubt he will) certain doesn't equate to dominating a decade.  Name recognition isn't winning him any more events, as seen by the event where he finished 10th.  That should in no way be seen as a positive week for him.  He had the lead going into the weekend over a field of junior tour guys and, like a said the senior tour member (Love) that he used to beat like a rented mule, on a course that didn't require hitting driver (which he can't do) and yet he's in such a state of mental decay and his intimidation factor is so totally gone that he fell backwards and became simply another also ran (had to backdoor the top 10 with some meaningless late birdies).  And that failure comes before yet another back surgery.

micky wrote: Golf was great before Tiger.. it will be great without him.  Say what you will about him, and I have a lot to say. None of it nice. He brought a lot of popularity and spotlight to Golf. Forget the ratings, true fans tuned in before and they will after he retires. What he did is stimulate a world wide explosion and thus the great 'foreign' talents we have. That said, a despicable person. Personally I enjoy watching him fall flat more than watching him run laps around the likes of club pros and rich un motivated 50 somethings like Raymond Floyd as he did in his dominant years.  He win a quarter of what he did if he if he started out now. He was giant in a field of mental midgets and we ALL know Golf is 99% mental. hahah

I'm hoping Volkswagen goes back to the original for inspiration.