The golfing legend won’t be playing.
Tiger Woods faced a major insult from a golfing commentator on the eve of the Masters Tournament, which he is skipping due to an injury.
Brandel Chamblee, a commentator on The Skip Bayless Show, dubbed Woods the “most underachieving golfer in history,” according to UK Mirror.
The comment is generating some attention because Woods has won 15 major golfing titles over his career.
Chamblee’s remark came after Bayless discussed how injuries have hampered Woods’ career. The golfing legend is missing the tournament because of an injury. According to Fox News, Woods “ruptured his Achilles tendon in his left foot” and still can’t put weight on it, so he also skipped the Masters dinner.
“It just tears me up to think about how some of his injuries were self-inflicted after he dominated this game the way nobody has,” said Bayless on the show.
Although Chamblee also said he believes Woods is the sport’s greatest golfer ever, he then launched into the controversial commentary.
“I would say he’s the most underachieving golfer in the history of the game. And the way I get there is, I can think of no other golfer who left 10 to 15 major championships on the table,” he said, according to UK Mirror.
“Who left 30 to 40 regular tour events on the table. Of course, he’s the greatest player of all time, but he’s also at the same time the most underachieving. Nobody guessed beneath 20 majors at the end of his career. It was 20 to 25 majors … and over 100 tour events,” he added.
“What he did, nobody had ever seen anything like it,” he said. “He was so far superior to any of his peers, far, far more superior to his peers than [Bobby] Jones was, than [Ben] Hogan was, than [Jack] Nicklaus was,” he continued, according to UK Mirror.
