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A Solution to the Problems with the FedEx Cup

Thursday October 1, 2009 | 07:38:57 236 words, 9146 views
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Close your eyes and imagine that your boy Shanks here is Commissioner of the PGA Tour. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s a real stretch, but bear with me. I’d be going to those generous folks at FedEx with a better concept for their wildly lucrative FedEx Cup competition and here it is: operate it similarly to a longer version of the U.S. Amateur Championship.

They would use their FedEx point system to determine the field over the season and also throughout the first three events (even though one event too many) but when it comes to the final Tour Championship event, it must to go to match play for a final field of 16 or 32 participants. Elimination matches inherently have more drama than stroke play rounds and drama is what they are trying to create. You know some of these guys would be choking their guts out standing over a million dollar putt. Surely a playoff system such as this would produce a season-long champion worthy of the title.

Look at it this way: Phil Mickelson just won about $3 million in bonus money and Tiger Woods won $10 million. Can you imagine, instead of what we saw, a 36 hole championship match between those two for the $7 million difference? I’m thinking a huge money match like that where the winner will be crowned PGA Tour Champion of the Year would have just the right panache.


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Comment from: Brandon [Member] Email · http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker
What if Tiger and Phil get bounced in the first round? Then no one watches on TV. I think the suits want a Tiger-Phil Sunday guarantee.
Permalink 10/01/09 @ 14:09
Comment from: Shanks [Member] Email · http://www.travelgolf.com/blogs/shanks
If you want to guarantee Tiger there on Sunday, just make it a cumulative 12 or 16 round tournament. Me, I don't need Tiger or Phil for a dramatic championship match, although having at least one of them would be nice.
Permalink 10/01/09 @ 14:13
Comment from: Scott [Visitor] Email · http://18hol.es
Shanks, I'm with you. I don't need Tiger and Phil. Hell, I got sucked into the Walker Cup and that was a killing.

This is a great suggestion. Match play is much more exciting to watch and in a field of that size, there will always be exciting matches to watch / televise that will drive an audience.

How do we lobby for it?
Permalink 10/07/09 @ 09:39
Comment from: Shanks [Member] Email · http://www.travelgolf.com/blogs/shanks
Only way to contact them is through pgatour dot com, using the feedback icon in the uipper right hand corner. Now, if we could only organize a large number of responses ....
Permalink 10/07/09 @ 09:54

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