June 21, 2025 • 8 mins
The income domino effect started from Tiger Woods to today. Hour 2 Seg 1:
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, it's a forty nine. It's the Golf Show
on the ticket. Quick Tiger Wood story. There's an article
on golf dot com. Hughes Norton used to work for
IMG and that was Tiger's company. Mark Steinberg's been his
agent for about the last twenty four years or so,
but the original agent was Hughes Norton, and he talked
about recruiting the twenty year old Tiger Woods and signing
(00:27):
him to his first deal. And it was the week
before the event in Milwaukee when he turned pro. And
so he has the press conference on Tuesday or Wednesday
to say, you know, hello world. But right before that
he had to sign the contracts that Nike and Titlist
were presenting him through his agent, Hughes Norton, and he said,
I go into his hotel room and Earl's on the
(00:49):
couch and Tiger's on the bed watching TV, and I've
got papers I need them to sign, one from Nike
for forty million and one from Titlist for twenty million,
and they're acting like it's no big deal, and especially
twenty year old Tiger, and Tiger was quite naive back
then about how business worked, and so he was trying
to explain to Tiger exactly what was expected of him
(01:13):
when he got the forty and the twenty million, and
you know, we all know about the titlist stuff. Is
he was going to play titlist until something better came along.
And a few years later the Nike golball came out
and he considered that better.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
But he said, yeah, he goes, where do I sign?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
And he presented him the papers and there was three
or four signatures he needed and how's that? He goes, well,
sixty million is not a bad day at the office.
Let's go and he went back to t watching Sports
Center on TV. So it's kind of interesting to see
how non chaloty sometimes young kids, and Tiger was certainly
that when he was twenty just kind of don't get
the world of business and let that's why they have
(01:50):
others that take care of it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And Hughes Norton was his first agent. I think Tiger's
technically a billionaire now, isn't he. He's that Yeah, he's
in the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It's crazy how the money and the in professional sports,
particularly golf, has gone. And I think a lot of
the professionals out there today thank Tiger dearly for it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Lebron and Tiger are the
and then the stock the Formula One racer are the
five billionaire athletes.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And I'd say that show hey, Tony's going to be.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
He's in the ballpark too, probably just with the endorsements
he's getting in Japan.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
But the one thing that and I didn't get this
far in the article.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I'm going to look for further into it, but there
is a story that it was two thousand and two
thousand and one, when Tiger was really starting to play
his best golf, that Hughes Norton basically had him at
an event every time because agent's jobs are to maximize
your money. And he had Hughes at an event every
single or. He had Tiger an event almost every off week.
And Tiger went to him one day and said, dude,
(02:54):
we've got to cut this back. I got practice, I
got a life. I'm going to play fifteen sixteen events
await a year, but I'm not going to be on
the road the rest of the time, just going from
one sponsor party to the next, and one event to
the next, and one clinic to the next I'll do
some of it, but I'm not going to do all
of it. And Hughes Norton didn't want to operate that way.
He wanted Tiger out there so they can maximize his money.
(03:15):
And that's when he hired Mike mark Steinberg and said, Dude,
I'll come to some of these events that I have to,
but pick and choose them and make sure I have
to be there. I got a legacy to build, and
he would. Tiger never had an issue working out for
ten hours and hitting golf balls all day, but hanging
out a sponsor party for fifteen minutes was fifteen minutes longer,
(03:36):
and he wanted to be there usually.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So, Andy, you're always in the know about Tiger. When
are we going to see him play again?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
My guess is he'll play with Charlie at the father
Son of Vent in December. He's just a once a
year golfer now. Well, I do think if the achilles
is healed, my guess is he'll try to play LA
because it's the signature event that he hosts, and now
that he's got lifetime exemption to every tournament the world,
he can play it. I would think if he's capable.
(04:04):
He would probably like to play bay Hill, although I
think bay Hill has changed since he last won there.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And he'll play the four Majors, so you don't expect
to see him again this year.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I don't know enough about an achilles injury that the
achilles happened whenever it happened, but it's usually a ten
month recovery process, and like Kyrie Irving in the NBA
got hurt in April, they're not expecting him to play
until after the All Star break. Now, Kyrie's got to
run and jump and cut, but Tiger still has to
pivot off that Achilles at one hundred and whatever miles
(04:34):
an hour, he still can swing it. So that's kind
of where I'm looking at him. But what I'm interested
to see is if in January next year he plays
a Champions Tour event because he gets the golf cart
and he doesn't have to walk six and a half miles.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
He just gets to a golf off. He turns fifty
in December, correct, because December thirtieth.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I think, well, you know, the last four or five, six,
seven years, or however long it's been, it's like I
think Tiger's been hurt more times.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Than Yeah, it's really sad and I and I think
that I think he wants to compete. I think he
has that competitive gene, if you will, and I think
that may get him some Champions Tour events. He and
though they play golf courses that are five six hundred
yards shorter than what the PGA Tour plays, I think
(05:19):
he can win there, and it's an opportunity for him
to get reps while not having to have the stress
of walking.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Tiger and Bernard longer going to go head. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I don't think he's going to play for sixteen years
and then win sixty five events, But hey, it's a
goal and Tiger likes goals, right, all right. Here's the
Here's one of the biggest things in the world about
golf that I'm just perplexing. Tommy Fleetwood is a world golf,
world class golfer, but yet he's never won on US soil,
and he's never won a major. And now he's tied
(05:51):
for the lead with Scotty and JTT at Hartford. I'm
wondering why he doesn't win more and win more.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I remember a few years ago at the Dunhill Cup,
he shot sixty two at Carnoustie. That's some serious golf
right there. I don't care what conditions Carnosti's in.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
So does he remind you of a jolly Scotsman from
the nineties that had the same record in the US
and in majors.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, but I think Tommy Fleetwood's far more I guess congenial.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I think the.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Crowds like Tommy Fleetwood way more than they did.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Call him Thegomery yoh, for sure.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I think Fleetwood's perhaps well behind Rory, of course, but
would be one of the top European professionals that Americans like.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I think he's a.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Really affable, likable a person, wonderful talent. He's had a
lot of high finishes. I know my wife always picks
him in the major's pool that she gets into, and
I want to, but I think my head wins.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Over my heart.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Sometimes he just doesn't get there at the end. He
was in contention at Shinnecock a few years ago at
the US Open that Kopka won. But maybe this is
the week that he finally breaks through, and I'd like
to see it. Yes, all right, the city did you have?
And ship? How do people go?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Sign up?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
For that Animalcitygolf Trail dot com. There's gonna be a
link to it from there. It's four twenty five. It's
the four rounds of Golf price fund, everything included. We'd
love to see you hot shots play. If you're a
ten and under and you think you can hang, get signed.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Up and understand. But I don't think I can hang. Well,
maybe Senior Club Champion, there's senior senior Amateur.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
There's some seniors that are better than me too. There's
a there's a limit to where where I can go.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Thanks so much. We'll see you next month. Appreciate you
very much. Andy, thanks for having us all right.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
That's Andrew Peterson. Thanks to Shane Carter. Thanks to you
for being a part of the show. See you Monday
for the afternoon show. It's the Golf Show on the Ticket.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You've been listening to The Golf Show on Sports Radio
AM seven sixty. The Ticket brought to you by MK
Golf Tech, Joe Caruso's Golf Academy, and by Alamo City
Golf Trail. We'll tee it up again next Saturday morning
at eight with another edition of the Golf Show, exclusively
on Sports Radio AM seven sixty the ticket.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You've been listening to the podcast version of The Golf
Show on sports Radio AM seven sixty. The tickets join
us again next time for another edition of The Golf Show.
All right, it's a forty nine. It's the Golf Show
on the ticket. Quick Tiger Wood story. There's an article
on golf dot com. Hughes Norton used to work for
IMG and that was Tiger's company. Mark Steinberg's been his
agent for about the last twenty four years or so,
but the original agent was Hughes Norton, and he talked
about recruiting the twenty year old Tiger Woods and signing
(00:27):
him to his first deal. And it was the week
before the event in Milwaukee when he turned pro. And
so he has the press conference on Tuesday or Wednesday
to say, you know, hello world. But right before that
he had to sign the contracts that Nike and Titlist
were presenting him through his agent, Hughes Norton, and he said,
I go into his hotel room and Earl's on the
(00:49):
couch and Tiger's on the bed watching TV, and I've
got papers I need them to sign, one from Nike
for forty million and one from Titlist for twenty million,
and they're acting like it's no big deal, and especially
twenty year old Tiger, and Tiger was quite naive back
then about how business worked, and so he was trying
to explain to Tiger exactly what was expected of him
(01:13):
when he got the forty and the twenty million, and
you know, we all know about the titlist stuff. Is
he was going to play titlist until something better came along.
And a few years later the Nike golball came out
and he considered that better.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
But he said, yeah, he goes, where do I sign?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
And he presented him the papers and there was three
or four signatures he needed and how's that? He goes, well,
sixty million is not a bad day at the office.
Let's go and he went back to t watching Sports
Center on TV. So it's kind of interesting to see
how non chaloty sometimes young kids, and Tiger was certainly
that when he was twenty just kind of don't get
the world of business and let that's why they have
(01:50):
others that take care of it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And Hughes Norton was his first agent. I think Tiger's
technically a billionaire now, isn't he. He's that Yeah, he's
in the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It's crazy how the money and the in professional sports,
particularly golf, has gone. And I think a lot of
the professionals out there today thank Tiger dearly for it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Lebron and Tiger are the
and then the stock the Formula One racer are the
five billionaire athletes.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And I'd say that show hey, Tony's going to be.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
He's in the ballpark too, probably just with the endorsements
he's getting in Japan.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
But the one thing that and I didn't get this
far in the article.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I'm going to look for further into it, but there
is a story that it was two thousand and two
thousand and one, when Tiger was really starting to play
his best golf, that Hughes Norton basically had him at
an event every time because agent's jobs are to maximize
your money. And he had Hughes at an event every
single or. He had Tiger an event almost every off week.
And Tiger went to him one day and said, dude,
(02:54):
we've got to cut this back. I got practice, I
got a life. I'm going to play fifteen sixteen events
await a year, but I'm not going to be on
the road the rest of the time, just going from
one sponsor party to the next, and one event to
the next, and one clinic to the next I'll do
some of it, but I'm not going to do all
of it. And Hughes Norton didn't want to operate that way.
He wanted Tiger out there so they can maximize his money.
(03:15):
And that's when he hired Mike mark Steinberg and said, Dude,
I'll come to some of these events that I have to,
but pick and choose them and make sure I have
to be there. I got a legacy to build, and
he would. Tiger never had an issue working out for
ten hours and hitting golf balls all day, but hanging
out a sponsor party for fifteen minutes was fifteen minutes longer,
(03:36):
and he wanted to be there usually.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So, Andy, you're always in the know about Tiger. When
are we going to see him play again?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
My guess is he'll play with Charlie at the father
Son of Vent in December. He's just a once a
year golfer now. Well, I do think if the achilles
is healed, my guess is he'll try to play LA
because it's the signature event that he hosts, and now
that he's got lifetime exemption to every tournament the world,
he can play it. I would think if he's capable.
(04:04):
He would probably like to play bay Hill, although I
think bay Hill has changed since he last won there.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And he'll play the four Majors, so you don't expect
to see him again this year.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I don't know enough about an achilles injury that the
achilles happened whenever it happened, but it's usually a ten
month recovery process, and like Kyrie Irving in the NBA
got hurt in April, they're not expecting him to play
until after the All Star break. Now, Kyrie's got to
run and jump and cut, but Tiger still has to
pivot off that Achilles at one hundred and whatever miles
(04:34):
an hour, he still can swing it. So that's kind
of where I'm looking at him. But what I'm interested
to see is if in January next year he plays
a Champions Tour event because he gets the golf cart
and he doesn't have to walk six and a half miles.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
He just gets to a golf off. He turns fifty
in December, correct, because December thirtieth.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I think, well, you know, the last four or five, six,
seven years, or however long it's been, it's like I
think Tiger's been hurt more times.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Than Yeah, it's really sad and I and I think
that I think he wants to compete. I think he
has that competitive gene, if you will, and I think
that may get him some Champions Tour events. He and
though they play golf courses that are five six hundred
yards shorter than what the PGA Tour plays, I think
(05:19):
he can win there, and it's an opportunity for him
to get reps while not having to have the stress
of walking.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Tiger and Bernard longer going to go head. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I don't think he's going to play for sixteen years
and then win sixty five events, But hey, it's a
goal and Tiger likes goals, right, all right. Here's the
Here's one of the biggest things in the world about
golf that I'm just perplexing. Tommy Fleetwood is a world golf,
world class golfer, but yet he's never won on US soil,
and he's never won a major. And now he's tied
(05:51):
for the lead with Scotty and JTT at Hartford. I'm
wondering why he doesn't win more and win more.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I remember a few years ago at the Dunhill Cup,
he shot sixty two at Carnoustie. That's some serious golf
right there. I don't care what conditions Carnosti's in.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
So does he remind you of a jolly Scotsman from
the nineties that had the same record in the US
and in majors.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, but I think Tommy Fleetwood's far more I guess congenial.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I think the.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Crowds like Tommy Fleetwood way more than they did.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Call him Thegomery yoh, for sure.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I think Fleetwood's perhaps well behind Rory, of course, but
would be one of the top European professionals that Americans like.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I think he's a.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Really affable, likable a person, wonderful talent. He's had a
lot of high finishes. I know my wife always picks
him in the major's pool that she gets into, and
I want to, but I think my head wins.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Over my heart.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Sometimes he just doesn't get there at the end. He
was in contention at Shinnecock a few years ago at
the US Open that Kopka won. But maybe this is
the week that he finally breaks through, and I'd like
to see it. Yes, all right, the city did you have?
And ship? How do people go?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Sign up?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
For that Animalcitygolf Trail dot com. There's gonna be a
link to it from there. It's four twenty five. It's
the four rounds of Golf price fund, everything included. We'd
love to see you hot shots play. If you're a
ten and under and you think you can hang, get signed.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Up and understand. But I don't think I can hang. Well,
maybe Senior Club Champion, there's senior senior Amateur.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
There's some seniors that are better than me too. There's
a there's a limit to where where I can go.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Thanks so much. We'll see you next month. Appreciate you
very much. Andy, thanks for having us all right.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
That's Andrew Peterson. Thanks to Shane Carter. Thanks to you
for being a part of the show. See you Monday
for the afternoon show. It's the Golf Show on the Ticket.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You've been listening to The Golf Show on Sports Radio
AM seven sixty. The Ticket brought to you by MK
Golf Tech, Joe Caruso's Golf Academy, and by Alamo City
Golf Trail. We'll tee it up again next Saturday morning
at eight with another edition of the Golf Show, exclusively
on Sports Radio AM seven sixty the ticket.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You've been listening to the podcast version of The Golf
Show on sports Radio AM seven sixty. The tickets join
us again next time for another edition of The Golf Show.
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