Tiger Woods’ slide continued last week at the Open Championship, where he missed the cut and dropped outside the top 250 in the world.
In an interview with Omnisport, a Europe-based sports news service, Gary Player called Woods’ decline “sad” and said that the game needs Woods to spread the game globally.
“We need Tiger Woods. Why? He’s a man of color. We need a black champion,” Player said, according to the report.
“Go to Africa, where we’ve got all these young black kids used to seeing a white guy as the champion.