New Tee Time Setup On PGA Tour Is ... Brilliant!!

Having just crawled out from under a rock, I beg your forgiveness. The new tee time structure on the PGA tour has me in awe of someone (maybe Finchem, maybe not). I stumbled onto today’s tee times, Sunday at Booz Allen, as I was pirouetting through the PGATour.Com site. Middle-Agers like me remember the single-tee, consecutive-start-beginning-at-dawn on weekdays and weekends. This new structure has players going off one and ten, all within a two-hour (1-3) period. Brilliant! If someone lights it up on the front, the back, or both, the cameras are ready. No more “He finished five hours ago and you should have seen his shots!” excuses from the announcers. If someone back in the pack is in the midst of a 59, we’ll know about it and watch it with our own three eyes (speaking for myself, of course.) Hats off to Da’ Tour…this idea is a winner.

P.D. If someone in the know can catch me up on when this type of structure began, I’d be most grateful.