Tiger Woods is ‘broken’ and ‘damaging his legacy’ by continuing to play golf.
That’s according to Rory McIlroy’s former agent, Chubby Chandler, who thinks the 49-year-old American is a shadow of the superstar he used to be.
Woods, during his younger years, was a force to be reckoned with and quickly established himself as one of the greats of the game.
He has struggled over the past 17 years or so, however, having won just one major since securing glory in the US Open in 2008.
Woods is yet to announce when he’ll retire from golf and has been overseeing the early stages of his son Charlie’s own career.
But Chandler, speaking to Vision4Sport, thinks it’s time the golf icon hangs up his clubs for good amid his ongoing problems.
“Two of the players on Tiger’s TGL team are retired – [Kevin] Kisner and Tiger don’t play,” he said.
“If I were a betting man, that would have been the best bet in the world because they had half a team.
“I’m not convinced by this TGL. 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.
“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.
“I used to love watching [Arnold] Palmer and [Jack] Nicklaus playing the Open when they were gone 60 because it was real respect, wasn’t it.
“They stood on the smoking bridge and all that. That should be Tiger!
“I’m not doing him down. Stewart Cink nearly won the Open but Stewart Cink was fit.
“Tiger’s not fit. Tiger’s broken. 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 [when he won the Masters], that was his moment. That was it.
“All Tiger is doing now is damaging his legacy.”
