Monday
17Sep
FedEx Cup Post Mortems
Consensus seems to be building that it was all worth it, and now it's on to the major tweaking.Steve Campbell offers solutions. Mark Lamport Stokes takes it all in and seems to come away impressed.
Dave Fairbank offers his tweaks. And Bob Verdi raises this point:
What's more intriguing is what he is saying in private to FedEx, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, BMW and the TV networks. Very important executives with those companies made very expensive decisions to fund the playoff, ostensibly on the assumption that all the best golfers were to play all the time. How could these CEOs be surprised when it didn't materialize? When Finchem was asked whether he guaranteed corporate angels that Tiger and Phil were on board, he replied, "you never can." Bingo. One wonders whether he told sponsors that during his sales pitch.
Update on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 07:47 AM by
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Monday, September 17, 2007 at 08:05 PM
Reader Comments (5)
It should be hard to move up.
The reason no one way down on the original playoff standings moved way up isn't because of the point structure, it was because no one way down on the list played all that well. None of them had a top 3 finish.
Going into the Tour Championship, who were the players capable of winning the whole thing? -Woods, Stricker, and Mickelson
And going into the Tour Championship, who were the players who had won playoff events? -- that's right the same guys-Woods, Stricker, Mickelson.
That sounds like a good system to me. Reward guys who actually win golf tournaments, not Joe Schmo who simply gets a top 10.
I play a lot of golf at Bethpage and we are also the beneficiary of EXPONENTIALLY improved course conditions as a result of the US Open being played on the Black.
Rates have gone up a little, but are still very reasonable and definitely "below market"...but keep in mind Bethpage and Torrey are municipal facilities, not high-end daily fee courses.
One great thing I'll say about Bethpage and the State of NY is they get credit for maintaining the integrity of the tee-time system. I'd say 98%+ of the times go to locals and there's no manipulation or hoarding of times by mgmt.
It can be hard to get a time but this is only because the competition for times is fierce, the system is fair. I'm not sure that's the case for Torrey Pines.
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