The beginning of the last month of 2025 indeed turned out to be one busy week for golf. Three events unfolded in the same timeline. While Tiger Woods hosted a star-studded holiday event Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, the real action in the golf world was happening a continent away, leaving analysts to label Woods’ tournament a ‘snoozefest’.
Rory McIlroy’s earlier remarks about the Hero World Challenge lacking hype suddenly feel prophetic when golf media personality Brendan Porath sarcastically shared on X, “Thank god they have rope lines at the Hero World Challenge. It would be pure chaos if not.”
Now, yet again, Porath and Andy Johnson, sitting for The Shotgun Start podcast for Fried Egg Golf expressed how they are extremely disappointed regarding how Tiger Woods’ Hero World

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