Tiger Woods Wins Inaugural "Most Popular Player" Bonus

[BuffaloKyle]

https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/33405341/tiger-woods-wins-pga-tour-inaugural-player-impact-program-which-measures-popularity

Tiger Woods, who hasn't played in a PGA Tour event for more than a year while recovering from injuries suffered in a car wreck, won the tour's inaugural Player Impact Program bonus. The program measures a player's popularity based on a set of criteria.

Woods, a 15-time major champion, collected the $8 million top prize, the Tour announced on Wednesday

 It rewards the top 10 players by an impact score, which is determined by five metrics: their popularity in Google searches, their Q rating, the Nielsen Brand Exposure rating, the MVP index rating and their Meltwater Mentions, which measure the frequency that a player generates coverage across various media platforms.

He's probably going to win it every year! If you're not a golf fan he's one of a few that any average person would know. If they had this for women's tennis for example Serena Williams would have won it since the year 2000 or so. I can understand in the article some other players not really for this. They go by internet searches so they are setting themselves up for someone winning it for the wrong reasons too. If a high ranking golfer gets arrested for something pretty bad their searches and social media mentions are gonna go through the roof.