Opinion & Analysis

Tiger markets his new course with cargo pants

Published

12 years ago

Oct 22, 2014

Tiger’s smarter than we all give him credit for.

After we called for a Tiger Woods’ fashion intervention, it’s become obvious that Woods is not only trolling Twitter, the golf media and fashionistas everywhere to get a rise, but he’s using his duds as a marketing tool.

Brown cargo pants with a white belt standing on top of a rock wall whilst perusing a blueprint? Real clever, Tiger, you almost had us.

Woods was spotted at the site of the El Cardonal course — Woods’ debut course design — at Diamante in San Lucas, Mexico, which is set to open on December 16.

Just days after starting to hit full shots again, this photo resurfaced showing Woods on a rock wall surveying the property. He clearly pulled the old “dress savagely awful to get everyone talking about me to create buzz around my first course design” move. Savvy marketing at its finest, especially with all the criticism of his jean-selection of late. Don Draper would golf clap the effort.

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He played on the Hawaii Pacific University Men's Golf team and earned a Masters degree in Communications. He also played college golf at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

24 Comments

moses

Oct 27, 2014 at 12:50 pm

Slow day at the office?

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Desmond

Oct 24, 2014 at 9:16 am

As I write this, I am wearing some of the most comfy cargo pants in the world… brushed, thin cotton, soft as a baby’s behind … a man needs more pockets these days.

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8thehardway

Oct 24, 2014 at 8:49 am

Why do you write the accusations using “I” and the retractions using “we” ?

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- josh
  
  Nov 20, 2014 at 3:21 pm
  
  +1
  
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Q

Oct 24, 2014 at 3:44 am

His fashion really couldn’t be worse I noticed this as well there is another jeans shot of him too that is atrocious.

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Fred

Oct 23, 2014 at 11:37 pm

Tiger wears whatever Lindsey Vonn wants him to.

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- Q
  
  Oct 24, 2014 at 3:47 am
  
  There’s no way Lindsey has this bad of style.
  
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Pumper

Oct 23, 2014 at 4:12 pm

You failed by writing this article.

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TA

Oct 23, 2014 at 3:22 pm

Wow what an attention whorre. He’s turning into the Paris Hilton of golf.

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JB

Oct 23, 2014 at 3:17 pm

I cannot wait to login tomorrow to see what Tiger is wearing today.

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Pkk3e8

Oct 23, 2014 at 11:54 am

What is the obsession with Tiger’s cloths all the time, get a life! The guy is worth half a billion dollars, he can wear whatever the hell he wants, including blond skiers, ohh! Plus, the cargo pants are a great way to store rolls of cash, or Bently car keys, or gold bullion to keep his hands free for activities like; steering his yacht, steering his other yacht, driving one of his Ferrari’s, grabbing the hand rail to safely enter his helicopter on the helipad of his yacht, high fiving his private chef, high fiving his butler, and picking a $500 dollar bottle of wine for dinner from his private wine collection. #WantToBeTiger #HatersGonnaHate

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- tonystark
  
  Oct 27, 2014 at 9:04 am
  
  HAHAHAHA! You are so right!
  
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marty

Oct 23, 2014 at 8:09 am

Lighten up Francis. You guys go back to hitting PW 170 yards at the range.

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Bill

Oct 23, 2014 at 3:00 am

his cargo pants are similar to this article, not interesting or informative

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John

Oct 22, 2014 at 11:05 pm

I’m not sure if I’m more upset at 1. how awful that story was or that 2. I knew what the story was about by the title and I clicked on it anyway.

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DontChase

Oct 22, 2014 at 9:46 pm

Come on now, this picture is at least ten months old – goes back to at least this USAToday story in January.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2014/01/14/tiger-woods-first-golf-course-el-cardonal-cabo-san-lucas/4483511/

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Joe Batters

Oct 22, 2014 at 8:19 pm

He could wear a dress and still be better at golf than the writer or any commenter, even with his injuries. Who cares.

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Hunterdog

Oct 22, 2014 at 8:10 pm

The photo shown is at least two years old.

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- Jeremy
  
  Oct 22, 2014 at 9:02 pm
  
  Is it really?
  
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  - Hunterdod
    
    Oct 22, 2014 at 9:19 pm
    
    Google “Tiger woods standing on wall photo”. I’m pretty sure it’s from October 2012.
    
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  - Billy
    
    Oct 23, 2014 at 12:37 am
    
    Look at the hat, it has the “VR” logo. Last used in 2012.
    
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Jeremy

Oct 22, 2014 at 6:13 pm

I’d take these over the mom jeans eleven times out of ten.

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cdvilla

Oct 22, 2014 at 5:42 pm

I love the idea that bad pants are the foundation of his social media plan.

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- The Infidel
  
  Oct 23, 2014 at 6:45 am
  
  +1!
  
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