"What we see the FedEx Cup doing is doing that on a weekly basis.”

Damon Hack writing about the FedEx Cup, with this from Commissioner Finchem:

"When you see situations where a couple of top players are really pitted head to head, the Mickelson-Woods match from years ago in Doral, the year Ernie and Tiger went to a playoff in Hawaii,” he said, referring to Ernie Els, “those kinds of things can generate more interest. What we see the FedEx Cup doing is doing that on a weekly basis.”

That kicks in when, again? The Buick at Torrey Pines? Or the Buick at Warwick Hills? 

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[Sean Murphy]

If the fans don’t get into it, then we’ll have to redo it. It’ll be a year of learning what works and what doesn’t work.” Joe Oglivie


Watching Phil and Tiger resume their 15 - 18 event schedule next year while earing an extra $10 Million in retirement benefits is akin to yet another Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Peace Agreement, will there ever be an answer? Where the FECES Cup fails is ensuring more participation from the top players, which is what Finchem promoted last year at this time. Top players will play the same amount of events while the rest of Finchem's constituency will have less starts and less chances to earn income, think Q-School category. With there only being 14 full field events out of a possible 36 for those 60 Members within the Q-School category, how many starts will #30 get under his belt by August, and do the other 30 in this category count?

Joe Oglivie last year......

Ogilvie also pronounced the Tour "guilty" of bad communication and failure to stamp out rumors about its '07 schedule. "At the beginning of the year they handled it very poorly," Ogilvie said. "They talked to Tiger, Phil and Vijay," but not to the rank-and-file players, who were "pretty much spectators." http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/preview/siexclusive/2005/pr/subs/siexclusive/10/26/gp.ogilvie1031/index.html?url=http%253A%252F%252Fpremium.si.cnn.com%252Fpr%252Fsubs2%252Fsiexclusive%252F2005%252Fpr%252Fsubs%252Fsiexclusive%252F10%252F26%252Fgp.ogilvie1

Oglivie has taken a page out of the Finchem play book, speaking out without remembering what it was he said yesterday. Looks as if the only people involved in the revamping was Tim - Tiger - Phil. Even when it comes to PAC Board recomendations these threee Trump this dues paying membership with their Private Inurement = Insider Trading "Deals". That's why all the secrecy coming out of PVB, everything is TOP SECRET, inclucing Finchem's renewed contract, even the membership didn't see that one coming until it had already been done.

Sorry, back to those 22 limited field events, including those 4 the Policy Board refused in accepting PAC Board recomendations for, they will end up being the bookmark of where this FECES thing went all wrong. Will DLIII still be on the Policy Board in 2007? Over Tim's dead body is Davis coming off that rubber stamp board!

[J.T.]

That could be your best streamlined message all year Sean. On a more serious note, it's been somewhat nice having you around with a totally different opinion on what's REALLY going on inside the mysterious world of PGA TOUR.