Tiger Woods has been tipped to quit professional golf. (Image: Getty.)
former agent Andrew Chandler has called on to retire completely from professional golf as he is “damaging his legacy”.
The American legend has most recently been competing in his TGL league, before , but he has just one Major win since 2008.
Woods has been drifting further away from contention as the years pass, with injuries wreaking havoc, though the 49-year-old is yet to announce any plans to quit golf imminently.
Chandler, however, already considers Woods as ‘retired’ and thinks that he should call it a day on his professional career and focus on enjoying events on the senior tour.
“Two of the players on Tiger’s TGL team are retired, [Kevin] Kisner and Tiger don’t play,” Chandler told . “If I were a betting man, that would have been the best bet in the world because they had half a team.
“I’m not convinced by this TGL. I think Tiger would be better stepping away completely for two to three years and then start playing again, if he wanted to.
“On the seniors. Play about eight seniors tournaments a year. The ones he likes. There’s a theory that the British Seniors Open is going to be on at St Andrews when Tiger’s 50.
Andrew Chandler (R) with a young Rory McIlroy (L). (Image: Getty)
“I don’t know if Tiger will even be playing in the Majors in 2025 but doesn’t it even make a difference anymore? Do I want to see him down the field? No, I don’t. So if he plays in the Majors, I hope he’s at least semi-competitive. Not like how he is at the moment.”
Woods played in just five PGA Tour events in 2024, making the cut just once, picking up £35,000 across the season.
He was thrashed on his TGL debut, lining up alongside Max Homa and Kevin Kisner for Jupiter Links Golf Club, but they went down 12-1 to Los Angeles Golf Club in their season-opener before Woods’ fitness was questioned.
“The poor lad,” Chandler said of Woods. “Did you see his right leg? He’s shattered. He’s not in great shape. I don’t know what’s in his head. If he stepped away and just watched his boy grow up and do all the things you do, if he then came back he’d then be far enough away from the real Majors to be teed up as an elder statesman.
“I used to love watching [Arnold] Palmer and [Jack] Nicklaus playing the Open when they were gone 60 because it was real respect, wasn’t it. They stood on the smoking bridge and all that. That should be Tiger!
“I’m not doing him down. Stewart Cink nearly won the Open but Stewart Cink was fit. Tiger’s not fit. Tiger’s broken. To be doing all that with a broken body I think it’s very tough. You’ve got an awful lot of kids now watching a broken Tiger and that’s not how he should be remembered. It’s all very sad, knowing his record and knowing he’s not competitive.
“That comeback win in 2019, that was his moment. That was it. All Tiger is doing now is damaging his legacy.”