PIP Comedy: Tiger Ends Up Winning, Bubba Finishes 10th Despite Shocking Meltwater Miss
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The continued comedy that is the PGA Tour’s popularity program has shockingly produced the pre-determined winner. Despite Phil Mickelson’s December declaration of victory and press reports backing him up, the number-crunchers finally tallied the 2021 totals and found that Tiger Woods won.
After saying they would not comment on the PIP, the PGA Tour revealed the Woods victory and Cameron Morfit’s story implies Woods’ return at the PNC Championship put him over the top.
Independent auditor Grant Thornton certified the results. Lucky them.
GolfDigest.com’s Dan Rapaport had the story as well with exclusive numbers.
Despite not hitting a shot until December’s PNC or doing much all year while recuperating from a car accident, Woods rode that deadly combo of Google searches, Meltwater Mentions and Q-Score to victory. Meanwhile, Mickelson will rue his Nielsen and Meltwaters while he takes a hiatus from the game.
Tiger took his victory in stride. Wait you said he invoked emojis to stick it to Phil?
Most compelling—if that’s possible with this “competition”—are some of the category numbers obtained by Golf Digest. The dismal Q-Scores for Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm jump off the page. Get those guys French bulldog puppies and Gram it up!
Bubba Watson also somehow overcame dismal scores in most categories to finish tenth thanks to a first place finish in the MVP Index, bringing $3 million to his account.
Jordan Spieth, finished 19th in the MVP Index co-started by his father, but killed in other categories thanks to about 25 totally sponsor-related and boring social media posts. Long live the PIP!
No Laying Up added the PIP with the other bonus pools to offer a 2021 money list:
