Tiger Woods has gone through a lot of physical challenges in recent years, especially following his car accident in 2021. And it sounds like one prominent former agent thinks that the golf legend should step away from full-time golf.
During a recent interview with Vision4Sport, Rory McIlroy’s former agent Andrew Chandler – who is known in the golf community as simply “Chubby – made it clear that he thinks Tiger Woods should step away from golf completely for a few years and then return to play on the seniors tour, instead.
“I think Tiger would be better stepping away completely for two to three years and then start playing again, if he wanted to. On the seniors. Play about eight seniors tournaments a year. The ones he likes. There’s a theory that the British Seniors Open is going to be on at St Andrews when Tiger’s 50,” Chandler said of Woods.
“I don’t know if Tiger will even be playing in the majors in 2025 but doesn’t it even make a difference anymore? Do I want to see him down the field? No, I don’t. So if he plays in the majors, I hope he’s at least semi-competitive. Not like how he is at the moment.
“The poor lad. Did you see his right leg? He’s shattered. He’s not in great shape. I don’t know what’s in his head. If he stepped away and just watched his boy grow up and do all the things you do, if he then came back he’d then be far enough away from the real majors to be teed up as an elder statesman.”
Andrews acknowledges that there have been golfers who have thrived late in their careers, but Tiger’s issue is not necessarily his age but his physical fitness.
“I’m not doing him down. Stewart Cink nearly won the Open but Stewart Cink was fit. Tiger’s not fit. Tiger’s broken,” he said.
“To be doing all that with a broken body I think it’s very tough. You’ve got an awful lot of kids now watching a broken Tiger and that’s not how he should be remembered.
“It’s all very sad, knowing his record and knowing he’s not competitive. That comeback win in 2019, that was his moment. That was it. All Tiger is doing now is damaging his legacy.”
Woods has given no indication that he plans to walk away from golf.
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