Tiger Woods holds golf fashion future in fingertips after split with Nike Golf
For 27 years, people could easily identify Tiger Woods — a Nike swoosh on his chest.
It’s the end of an era for the 82-time PGA Tour winner and the iconic brand. It’s been a week since he announced their split, but it’s still hard to imagine Woods wearing anything else.
The only time we’ve seen him since he made it official was for an appearance on the Fore Play Pod, and Woods still wore Nike. Of course, that was likely filmed before the news dropped. Nevertheless, it made it harder to visualize his ‘TW’ logo on anything else.
For 27 years people could easily identify Tiger Woods a Nike Swoosh on his chest it’s the end of an era for the 80 totime PGA Tour winner and the iconic brand it’s been a week since he announced their split but it’s still hard to imagine Woods wearing anything
Else the only time we’ve seen him since he made it official was for an appearance on the foreplay pod and woods still were Nike of course that was likely filmed before the news dropped nevertheless it made it harder to visualize his tww logo on anything else
But it will be what brand Woods will choose has yet to be determined or announced rumors have surfaced that it’s Grayson Cloe or that tailor maid is adding a clothing sector to their growing brand some have even suggested that he could launch his own stuff however there are some things to
Consider with this decision of his Woods won’t just go with any clothing company he simply can’t to help understand this whole situation better I spoke with Joshua Butler a golf brand and gear expert he founded J Butler Golf a new luxury yet affordable apparel line created to change the cost Narrative of
Playing golf for a company to take him on it will cost them millions of dollars Butler knows it could be detrimental if a brand isn’t ready for someone like woods and his magnitude most of the time in this era we can’t afford the big athletes he said the sponsorship
Requirements and the dollars that come with that could bankrupt a company would it be fantastic to see Woods invest in a smaller company yes because he is one of the most recognizable faces in golf he is why so many people of color have picked up golf clubs there are Brands he
Could work with like black bald golf J Butler Golf trap golf golfer bro and Eastside golf in Atlanta that he could work with his work with the hcu players earlier this year and the effort he put in showed him giving back to his community if he chose a minority-owned
Company it would change their business overnight you have these really great upand cominging Brands owned by non-caucasian individuals Butler said he could start his own and Orient it towards helping disadvantaged communities and underresourced individuals somebody at Tiger’s level in his stature could do an amazing job if
That’s where he chose to orient his next partnership towards helping unfortunately unless he is ready to forget about making money off the clothes he wears for a while a smaller minority-owned brand is out of the question it would be an excellent way for him to grow the game away from the
Course but right now in his career it doesn’t seem like that will be the move he makes Butler thinks that Woods could join FootJoy since they already Supply his shoes Grace and clo is another option that Butler believed could pull Woods because of their relationship with his good
Friend Justin Thomas the brand also sponsors his son Charlie
