“He started contributing value pretty doggone quick”

Another item from Jonathan Mahler's New York Times Magazine story on "The Tiger Bubble."

I spoke with Finchem, a small man with a Southern drawl and the easy yet guarded manner of a former political operative, last month in the clubhouse at a tournament in Arizona. He told me that the tour had been through recessions before on his watch, though he acknowledged that this one has been especially tough. While he cited Woods as a major factor behind the tour’s recent growth — “he started contributing value pretty doggone quick” — he ticked off a number of other factors as well.

Tiger was contributing value before anybody was riding the value bandwagon. He truly was ahead of his time.