This just in: Tiger Woods is very, very well liked

A "back of the book" graphic in today's Sports Business Daily has revealed the shocking news: In an ESPN Sports Poll asking PGA Tour fans to name their favorite professional golfer, Tiger Woods came out ... kinda on top.
The poll surveyed 13,706 people, nine percent who said they were an "avid fan" and 35 percent who admitted to just being a "fan." Our math right there indicated that more than half of those bothered to answer this had no interest in the tour at all to start with, so it's even tougher to gauge who's really hot ..... OK, now this is starting to sound like an ESPN summer "SportsCenter" filler.
Woods ended up with 64 percent (1,795) of the 2,804 number of people who responded to the question.
In second place -- None: 597 (21.3 percent)
Third: Phil Mickelson with 155 (5.5 percent).
Fourth and fifth are two guys who aren't even playing: Jack Nicklaus (23) and Arnold Palmer (21), both with 8 percent, tied with Annika Sorenstam and Vijay Singh (both with 21).
Which makes anyone below this level even less appealing.
But we give you the rest of it anyway:
Fred Couples:19 (0.7%)
Sergio Garcia: 11 (0.4%)
John Daly: 10 (0.4%)
Zach Johnson: 9 (0.3%)
Lorena Ochoa: 7 (0.3%)
Fuzzy Zoeller and Greg Norman: 6 (0.2%)
Ernie Els and Mike Weir: 4 (0.2%)
Where's Rocco Mediate?
Chi Chi Rodriguez?
Michelle Wie?
Stevie Williams?



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