12-Player Pile-Up At Innisbrook; Maybe It Would Be Better If They Don't Find A New Sponsor

I know some people watch NASCAR to watch the cars crash and that some dizzying amount of readers (76%) voted for protecting par in last week's Golf World/ESPN.com survey, but sheesh was that final round at Innisbrook painful to watch.

Anyway, congrats to Sean O'Hair for making it out of turn three ahead of the pile-up and winning under that yellow flag.

Now the PGA Tour needs to find a sponsor for the event. Or would a quick death be such a bad thing.

Oh right, the charity.  

Comments

[Greg]

Why was everyone playing so poorly during the final round? It was ridiculous.

[Pickworth]

Is the course that hard? Or was it just the wind?

[Ky Laffoon's Ghost]

I was on the road, returning from a golf visit to a friend in northern Alabama, where the weather was cold and windy and the course was a muddy, dormant Bermuda mess. So I missed the final round of the PODS. But it was golf on a good golf course, and we played the ball down.

Those poor Tour players: The Copperhead Course course was too hard. The wind was too tough. It was 55 freakin' degrees out there on Saturday. My caddie gave me the wrong yardage on 14. I know Johnny Miller was secretly laughing at me. The courtesy car was white instead of red. Tim Finchem is a big ol' meanie. Room service took too long Thursday night. My ball was next to a tree (but, yeah, I did hit it there). The free food in the players' lounge could have been just a little better. And now I have to drive all the way to Orlando (it's over 100 miles!), where the greens are said to be lousy this year. I really need to find an easier job...this playing golf on practically perfect golf courses all the year 'round, while having my every whim taken care of, is getting to be a real drag.

[Pickworth]

Well, that explains it, Ky.

Must say I liked the start best, "I was on the road..." Reminded me of Lowell George's 'Willing'. It sure is a tough gig being a tour pro in these dark days. Someone shoud write a folk anthem about it, before it gets lost to posterity.

[Ronald Montesano]

Did Ky drag a ghost putter down the road behind him? Or did he just punch a Florida cactus or two until he bled?

[JackM]

This is a "normal" ie pre-Tiger tournament, right? A bunch of guys playing in a weak field event throwing up on their shoes. It's only with Tiger that we expect people to close the deal. For the rest of these mortals, Sunday afternoon is pee-down-the-leg scary.

This is what the Tour will look like when Tiger moves to Dubai and only plays the majors..

I enjoyed watching these guys crash and burn.

I thought you wanted to see "shotmaking"? What's wrong with this course?

[Ky Laffoon's Ghost]

It was a beat up old Bullseye, and it really behaved after dragging it from Palm Beach to Palm Harbor. I haven't slugged a cactus in years, now that I'm on blood thinners.

[Traveler]

Sometimes they just play badly. One question for Sean O'Hair, et al: You've played 2-3 practice rounds, and three tournament rounds. You've had a pretty good chance to size up the greens. So, what are you doing reading those putts for 8 minutes...what do you see after the first 10 seconds that you don't already know?

Anyone notice Tom Pernice using a 7 wood. A PGA Tour player, using a 7 wood?

[CharacterCounts]

Traveler wrote, "Anyone notice Tom Pernice using a 7 wood. A PGA Tour player, using a 7 wood?"

A hybrid club is just a 7 wood with a shorter shaft and better marketing, and lots of PGA tour players use those.

By the way, I too enjoyed Sunday's final round. Most of my golf isn't played in 80 degree wind free weather and on courses where I get 50+ yards of roll on my tee ball, so I enjoyed seeing them struggle. Good to see that under more normal conditions, "these guys" aren't that good.