Tim Finchem was in his second month as the newly appointed commissioner of the PGA Tour, not paying a great deal of attention to the U.S.
Amateur being played down the street from his office at the TPC Sawgrass. It was only when he arrived for the World Series of Golf at Firestone that he first came to appreciate Tiger Woods. “I go up to Akron on the Sunday, and we give out the trophy and everything,” Finchem said. “And then I go to the locker room, and all the tour players are gathered around the television.
And they're watching Tiger Woods play in the Amateur. I've never seen tour players interested in watching any other golf on a day they were finishing a tournament." This was 1994, a few months after Woods had graduated high school and