Kevin Van Valkenburg

And so that energy is like a part of the fan experience in a lot of ways.

But I think from a media perspective, it's almost like a sort of a false god in the sense of...

man, are we really going to write this story again of like, whoa, could Tiger get in this?

Could he have a chance?

The players who are in their prime and are more likely to actually win, they don't seem to mind it because the spotlight kind of then turns a little bit away.

And Rory has talked about this of like, well, there was a few years where I thought I was going to be able to fly under the radar a little bit because Tiger was the whole story.

Tiger in

coming off 19 in 2020, was a fall Masters.

Everyone thought that was Rory's best chance, like a fall Masters, Tigers the defending champion, and Rory was awful in the first round and ended up missing the cut.

So it's just kind of...

I don't know.

I think that some perspective would be good in the sense, like you can enjoy the ceremony of it.

He's always said, I don't want to be a ceremonial golfer, but there is kind of a ceremony and it is kind of a, an aura of watching him play around there.

I fell for it the first few times that I, you know, was there and he was there, but I just do think it would be healthier for the game if we sort of

put him into a different category of like, oh, it'd be fun.

Boy, it'd be a miracle.

But zero expectations for this anymore.

Like not even like an outside expectations chance.

And he is such a driver of interest and has been for a long time.

I think it's a little bit less than it used to be, but it's still going to be like a lot of casual fans.