“It was a good year inside the ropes.”

Some fun notes in Doug Ferguson's column this week, starting with Ben Curtis cracking the top 50 (and securing a Masters birth) by one-thousandth of a point.

More interesting was this quote from Tim Finchem that probably would have helped his teleconference credibility, if nothing else for its brevity:

 “It was a good year inside the ropes.” – PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem.