By Evan Bleier Despite not playing in an official PGA Tour event for more than a year while recovering from serious injuries suffered in a major car wreck last February, Tiger Woods has been awarded $8 million for being the most popular player in golf. Woods won the tour’s inaugural Player Impact Program, a new initiative that uses five metrics to determine popularity and does not take on-course performance into account, even though the only tournament he played in last year was the unofficial parent-child PNC Championship in December. During that same month, Phil Mickelson tweeted out that he…
