Every Tour Event With Or Without Tiger Begins Here

I guess the art department didn't get the news about Tiger's extended vacation...

 

Comments

[RM]

If the PGA Tour went through all of this trouble to “improve” certain events and the tour in general, then why wasn’t the Merecedes part of that restructuring? Without Tiger and Phil, we are starting the season off with a field of 34 with only 10 are so actual “stars”. This tournament seems very similar to the Tour Championship, which was a boring non-event. If they pumped up the Mercedes, the new season would start off with a much bigger bang.

So in my opinion they should add:

PGA Tour Winners from the last 2 years. (This would add another 21 players, including Padraig, Michael Campbell, Sergio and Justin Leonard. )

Major championship winners from the last 5 years. (This would add 6 more including Weir, Goosen & Els.)

2006 Top 30 money winners not exempt. (This would add 4 more including Cink and Zach Johnson.)

World Top 20. (This would add 6 more, all big names: Stenson, David Howell, Paul Casey, Colin Montgomery and DiMarco.)

2006 Nationwide #1. (Ken Duke)

2006 Tour School Champion. (George McNeill)

This would create a 76 player field with virtually every big name invited. This might even give incentive for Tiger and Phil to play, and for us to care to watch.

[Hawkeye]

I agree with RM on a few of his suggestions, just not the top 30 without wins and the Worlds top 20. There should be something about being a "champion" left in the tournament, since it's still called the Tournament of Champions for us who started following golf in the 80's or earlier...

[Russel]

Sure, Buick loves to see Tiger plasterd all over a Mercedes-Benz ad. Tiger expressed such examples to Finchem on a number of occasions, one would think the tours VP's wouldn't release such an ad until they had Tiger's commitment to play! Timmy just loves leveraging Tiger as often as possible, soon Tiger will be playing the real world tour, known today as the European Tour.

[Scott]

Di'ntcha get the memo that Tiger Woods IS the PGA Tour at GOLF CHANNEL???

The symbolism of his image looming LARGE over three-time Kapalua champion Stuart Appleby wasn't unintentional...

[Michael]

Actually, I think the solution to improving player participation in the event is much simpler: move it out of Hawaii and back to someplace such as Carlsbad where it was ALWAYS well attended.

[Matt]

or if you really want Tiger and Phil, rotate the tournament every other year between Orlando and San Diego

[RGT]

More Finchem cross pollination of brands while increasing his own platform.