According to AP, PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem “sees nothing wrong with the amount of tournaments Ernie Els plays overseas, saying Monday that the three-time major winner is playing enough on the PGA Tour to satisfy its requirements.”

"There were some options in terms of his situation from a conflicting event standpoint that had to do with one tournament," Finchem said. "But it had nothing to do with how much golf he was playing. Somehow, it got garbled in transmission or somebody in the press got a hold of it. I don't know how it happened.”

How did it happen? Uh, Els has been the one who garbled the transmissions…publicly.

"Don't start putting a padlock around me because that's not going to work," Els said at the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth, among other outbursts.

***Update November 3: Els met with the Tour officials and now it was all a big misunderstanding. Right!