Woods Tops Google Searches This Year Despite Playing Only 3 Major Tournaments

Ranked No.1 PGA Tour Player by Golfweek
Four Times More Than Other Affiliated Players

Tiger Woods (Photo by AP Yonhap News)

Tiger Woods (USA) proved his influence by ranking first in Google search volume among players belonging to the PGA Tour this year.

On the 26th (Korean time), the American golf media Golfweek released the Google search volume results for major PGA Tour players from January 1 to December 17 this year, and Woods was selected as the most Googled player. Golfweek introduced, "Woods recorded more than four times the Google search volume compared to all other players belonging to the PGA Tour."

Despite participating in only three tournaments this year due to aftereffects from a traffic accident in February last year, Woods ranked first in this category for most searched keywords. Woods returned to the PGA Tour season's first major tournament, the Masters, in April, 509 days after the accident, and subsequently played in two more major tournaments but withdrew due to leg pain, completing only nine rounds.

Woods also ranked first for the second consecutive year in the Player Impact Program (PIP), which the PGA Tour calculates based on Google search volume, global media exposure, social media mentions, and broadcast exposure.

Following Woods, the player who ranked second in Google search volume was Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland). McIlroy also ranked second in the PIP rankings behind Woods. Scottie Scheffler (USA) took third place, followed by Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler, Tony Finau (all USA), Jon Rahm (Spain), Collin Morikawa (USA), and Viktor Hovland (Norway), who formed the top 10 rankings in order.

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