nickunderpar:
I havent ever seen Tiger in real life...I wish to sumday travel and see him cause the chances of him comeing to Australia are pretty slim.
found an article that talks exactly about that...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Top-golfers-wont-travel-to-Australia/2007/10/25/1192941224408.html
Top golfers 'won't travel to Australia'
October 25, 2007 - 4:14PM
Australian golf fans need to get used to the fact that the days of foreign marquee players contesting domestic events are over, according to US Tour star Stuart Appleby.
Appleby, in Melbourne for the launch of next month's Australian Masters, said the massive money on offer in America and the tyranny of distance meant the days of major winners playing in Australia were at an end.
"You're not going to get the top Americans to Australia. It's not going to happen, the business has changed," Appleby said.
"You can see how it is when you get to Thanksgiving in America and you get to the end of the year, it's always going to be hard now for Australia to attract players.
"Unless a tournament's got a half million dollar appearance fee they can blow around and spend on foreigners it's difficult to attract them."
Australian players have won just twice on the US Tour this year compared to eight victories last season but Appleby said he was confident they would regain their footing as a force on the Tour.
Aaron Baddeley, who won the FBR Open, is now the leading Australian on the US money list at No.10 while Adam Scott, the only other Australian to win - at Houston - has dropped to 11th.
"I don't think where we were this year is reflective of our play as a quality of a nation, certainly when you look at the Presidents Cup and how good our world ranking was this year," Appleby said.
"When we won it in 1998 we were nowhere near as strong as what we are today, so it doesn't always equate to wins.
"We are getting better and stronger but it was quiet and I don't really know why.
"Last year was probably more above the mean average.
"I think if we won six tournaments a year that would be pretty good, out of the Aussies.
"We had I think eight last year so that was probably high and where we were this year with a couple was pretty quiet," Appleby said.
The Victorian, who won twice last year, described this season as "average" with his best finish a tie for second behind Scott in Texas.
"I had some chances to potentially make it like last year but I just didn't capitalise," he said. "And that's sometimes enjoyable because it drives you to get up there again."
Appleby said opportunities for Australians - or anyone else - to win were becoming slimmer with the dominance of Tiger Woods.
"Certainly with Tiger, he's on Mt Everest already. He's waiting for everyone else to try and catch up.
"He's leaving very little on the table for us to win sometimes when you think he wins six or eight tournaments a year.
"Then you've got someone like Phil (Mickelson) or Vijay (Singh) and throw in between those two six and it gets a bit skimpy.
"But I think we can make our presence known again and hopefully I'm somewhere in there," he said.
This year's Masters will feature Dane Thomas Bjorn, Australian Open champion John Senden and fellow US Tour players Rod Pampling, Mark Hensby and Nick Flanagan as well as teenage stars Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland and Oli Fisher of England.