That's funny! When I picture the NEX TEL Cup winner John Rollins fits that image to a T.


OOooopppps, meant Fed Ex.

Who cares?
For the past several years, eveyone (except the PGAT) ignored the West Coast Swing standings and most other stats until it was time to issue the final Masters invitations.

Why is anyone (other than the PGAT) the least interested in FedEx standings or other stats this year?

C'mon, Geoff -- this is like criticizing the BCS "standings" when they're released in week five. Would you have made the same comment about the money list in previous years? Save your ammunition for the things that deserve it, like the USGA.

Isn't it ironic that pro golf on TV is driven by so called Non-Profits looking for more profit.

How about the idiotic FedEx ad on the superbowl yesterday? There is a moon base and inside the dome a tour guide is showing us around. People and objects are floating off -- the ad people not understanding that at 1/6th gravity 180 pound people still fall like 30 pound bowling balls and tend to stay on the surface. Gets worse when the scene switches to outside the moon base. The Earth is rising but is about 10 times, maybe 100 times larger than it would appear from the surface. OK, OK, it's only an idiotic ad. Then the FedEx Ground Delivery "truck" -- a moon transporter in the spirit of the movie 2001 (the whole ad uses that look for spacesuits and such) -- shows up. One of the guys walking around outside is accidentally kicked off into space and is suddenly smashed by a blazing meteor. Of course, the idiots who wrote the ad don't get that there is no "blazing" in space, where there is no air and no oxygen to allow fire. Nor is there any wooshing sounds associated with meteors passing by for the same reason.

OK, so the PGA Tour is in bed with FedEx. It's a match of marketing "experts" who don't respect their audience. The anti-scientific ad yesterday will see me seek to eliminate any business I do with FedEx.

Geoff- -

Rollins looks as surprised as you to be leading the Fed Up Cup.

Geoff,

You just don't get it. Look how great the FedEx Cup can be, if it ended right now David Branshaw is in the playoffs at 143rd position. If it was based on money he would be out at 145th position. This just goes to show you how this thing will swing back and forth throughout the year, I can't wait to see who it is that rounds out the top 144.

OH BOY!!!, i see it crystal clear now, somebody is going to be out of the top 144 in points earned but inside the top 144 on the money list, AND not making it into the Barclays $ 7 million dollar purse along with those 50 thousand fedex points. This guy is going to be trying to make it into the top 125 and certainly the top 150 on the money list where his money isn't going to mean sh*t compared to these points. Finchem trying to make it all about the points when its still really all about the money, this fiasco is going to be fun to watch.

Davis Love III and Finchem have said that they have worked on this concept for a couple years, and have covered every scenario, somehow I highly doubt they know what they're talking about.



That's about it as far as details go. It will be months before the tour works out the logistics of the FedEx Cup -- how points are valued and allocated, how many players qualify for the late-summer playoff series, seeding parameters, etc. "The list of ‘what-ifs' is huge," said Davis Love III, a member of the tour's policy board. "Guys are coming up to me and asking, ‘What's going to happen if so-and-so does this?' and I'm like, ‘We've already thought of that.' We've been working on this for a year and a half."


Still, all the rank and file asks for is a chance. "Is this point system going to be simple or are we going to need a NASA scientist to figure it out?" asked Olin Browne, a former member of both the policy board and players advisory committee. "We need to get information and share it with each other, run the numbers on previous years and plug them into a bunch of different formulas. It's in everybody's best interest to be skeptical right now because that may ultimately lead to the fairest system."


Not to worry Olin, Tim Finchem and Davis Love III have had a couple of years to work out all the kinks, so they say! Like everything else Finchem says (75 million Golf Channel viewers, 110 million golf fans, our brand is strong, we don't reveal tv rights fees, the Golf Channel and PGA Tour have an agreement not to reaveal tv ratings and so on) he still doesn't understand the concept "protecting the field".

It's about the money list Tim not your phony CUP!

http://www.golfdigest.co.za/webexclusives/html/index.php?excl=27

What if DLIII was the odd man out B.J., wouldn't that be hysterical!

How about the two guys tied at position #149 this week? That would be Chris DeMarco and Jose Maria Olazabal.

Dollars and scents.
The hardest working lot...The Golfers were nor consulted about the Fedex Cup system. Are Finchem and Davis Love the only persons making decisions for the hudreds of Golfers about a new (Fedex Cup) playoff sytem? Where are the profits going to besides the Tour Official, Staff, Finchem et Al and their expense accounts and salaries.Golfers can smell(scent) dollars too. The regular tournament season is hard enough (too long says Tiger)and long enough. They can forego a prize which they will not get until the are 65 years old...they call it an "Annuity". Who really needs it. I know , the 145th golfer who needs badly to get in the playoffs. IF Tiger Woods played the Barclays and won, he would have to play again next year to defend the title and maybe play all four playoffs. The Tour did not figure that Tiger has more brains and smarter to figure that one out.
Enjoy your family and well-earned vacation. Other golfers are saying too: Who needs an annuity?

Can anybody now tell me what happens in the last week. Obviously if Tiger wins the tournament, he takes home the money. What if Phil wins and Tiger finishes second. Does Phil "Win Win?" And Steve can win, but to do so, obviously he needs to win the weekly tournament, but what if Tiger finishes second???

Why don't I know this yet???

And will they bring out portable fake putting greens on some of the holes they play since the greens have been killed??? Maybe they can buy some space at a local miniature golf location???

Good luck one and all. Go JK if Phil can't do it.