NASCAR, on the other hand, waits until the week after the Super Bowl to hold its season-opening Daytona 500. (If there was one thing I wish the PGA Tour copied from NASCAR, it’s this and not the made-for-TV FedEx Cup. If the start of the golf season was pushed back a month to the second week of February, the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and other West Coast tournaments could be played in March without the fear of a Monday finish — or no finish at all.)
The PGA Tour made its network debut this past week at Torrey Pines, a tournament that was conveniently played during the bye week leading up to the Super Bowl and finished just before 12.3 million viewers tuned into the Pro Bowl.
It is there that we learned Tiger Woods really is taking an indefinite break from golf, and no one has any clue when he will return. Torrey Pines usually marks the end of Tiger’s winter hibernation. (A strip club lamented his absence by flying a plane over Torrey Pines that dragged the message, “We miss you Tiger!”)

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