It means somebody else will win a major title - the British or PGA - and for the rest of his life he'll have to unfairly live with .... "So and So won a major, but Tiger didn't play in that one."

And that won't be fair, especially it's a player winning his first major title.

Ratings will go down, but the golf world will survive. It's not like Tiger is going into an ecopod for a decade.