Just this week, Sports Illustrated put newest Masters winner Jordan Spieth on its cover claiming a new era for the young golfer. Only four years ago, Sports Illustrated put Rory McIlroy on its cover claiming a new era for the former Masters winner as well. With McIlroy being only 25, readers and fellow editors from SI’s competitor Golf Digest, asking whether McIlroy’s era was over? At such a young age, Sports Illustrated seems to have ended its obsession with McIlroy and placed all of its coverage on younger winner Spieth.
In the Washington Post article the discussion over whether McIlroy can have in fact have two concurrent eras is fleshed out and ultimately argued that his era is not in fact over. McIlroy remains the number 1 golfer in the world, finishing fourth in the Masters. Spieth in fact is starting an era of his own rather than ending McIlroy’s era being finished.
I personally think that having Spieth and McIlroy competing against each other will bring nothing but great attention, media coverage, and publicity to the sport of golf. With the fall of Tiger Woods the sport needed a superstar to pay attention to and make people care again (or rather force people to begin to care). This competition between two young men is exactly what the sport needs.
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