Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods raised the phrase “shifting the needle” to a special degree on Wednesday when the PGA Tour revealed the winners of the Participant Influence Program (PIP) the Tour launched for the primary time in 2021.
Regardless of not having performed an official event for the reason that 2020 Masters, Woods was declared the winner of the PIP and can be awarded $8 million for it. Phil Mickelson, who lately took to Twitter to declare himself because the PIP winner, really completed second and takes house $6 million.
In December, Mickelson introduced that he’d received the PIP, tweeting, “I’d wish to thank all of the crazies (and actual supporters too) for … serving to me win the PIP!!”
After the outcomes had been revealed Wednesday, Woods took to Twitter, re-tweeting Mickelson saying, “Whoops.’’
The inaugural program, which awarded $40 million to the highest 10 finishers, was measured from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2021, and the ultimate rating was calculated based mostly on year-end knowledge.
The metrics to find out the winner used 5 standards — Nielsen rankings, Google searches, MVP Index, Meltwater Mentions and Q-Score, based mostly on a participant’s attraction and recognition on social media.
The highest 10 gamers acquired bonuses from the $40 million pool, which raises to $50 million in 2022. After Woods and Mickelson got here Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas, every of whom had been awarded $3.5 million, after which Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, world No. 1 Jon Rahm and Bubba Watson, who every cashed $3 million.
“You have a look at the ten guys which can be on there, and so they’re the ten guys which have been on the prime of the sport or have been across the prime of the sport for a very long time,” McIlroy stated Wednesday. “It’s actually not one thing that I’m checking up on each week to see the place I’m at, however I feel it went the way in which most of us anticipated it to go.”
Patrick Cantlay, who’s ranked No. 3 on the earth and isn't within the Arnold Palmer Invitational area this week, lately denounced the PIP program, saying it ought to put extra weight into gamers’ outcomes.
“I feel I’m old-school within the respect that I would really like the cash to be doled out relative to play and I don’t assume the PIP does that,” Cantlay stated on the Genesis Invitational two weeks in the past. “It could be the primary departure that the tour has had from rewarding good play to rewarding social media or recognition presence, so I don’t like that departure.”
Viktor Hovland, who doesn’t have a Twitter account, stated Wednesday, “Clearly, it might be good to make the PIP, however on the identical time I’m not going to exit of my strategy to attempt to make that a aim. I spend an excessive amount of time on my telephone already simply answering messages. I see it extra as a distraction than what it’s doing to assist me. My important focus is simply to play higher golf, and that takes care of most issues.”
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