Art & Creativity Quote by Vijay Singh

It lands like a deadpan jab in the middle of a media frenzy: Vijay Singh floating "Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap" isn’t just trash talk, it’s a critique of how golf’s spotlight works. In the Tiger Woods era, everyone else could feel like supporting cast, even when they were winning. Singh’s line needles that hierarchy with the simplest possible prop: a cap, the golfer’s most visible billboard. He’s imagining turning himself into a headline the way Tiger automatically was.

The specific intent is provocation with plausible deniability. Framed as a "maybe", it reads playful enough to avoid sounding bitter, while still daring the press (and fans) to react. The subtext is sharper: you don’t get noticed in golf by being excellent; you get noticed by being attached to the orbit of a singular star. Singh is suggesting that if attention is a currency, he might as well mint some by parodying the brand that dominates the market.

Context matters because Singh wasn’t a fringe figure. He was a world-class player who, at various points, outperformed Woods on paper. That gap between achievement and airtime creates the tension the line exploits. It’s also an athlete’s version of media literacy: Singh knows exactly how narratives are manufactured, and he’s toying with the machinery. The joke isn’t just about Tiger; it’s about the sport’s dependence on one name to make everyone else legible.