Is the PGA Tour’s Wraparound Schedule Good or Bad for Golf?

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Published: February 14, 2014

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OK, I understand the fall portion of the PGA Tour's wraparound season was a loser in many ways in its previous form. Small purses (relatively speaking), lame fields, no FedEx Cup points and no invites to the Masters for winners.

And of course there's the matter of money, but isn't there always?

Those tournaments, formerly known as the Fall Series, were beginning to feel the pinch from sponsors who were paying more money and getting less for that money.

So, in conjunction with the elimination of the PGA Tour Qualifying School as we knew it, the Fall Series graduated to become the beginning of the new season.

The PGA Tour season now starts with seven events, takes a month off and then resumes where it has begun for many, many years, in Hawaii and the Hyuandi Tournament of Champions.

Can you see the NFL starting in September, playing until November and then picking up with the stretch run after the first of the year?

Doubtful.

As a matter of fact, football is the main reason the PGA Tour altered its late-season schedule five years ago.

The Tour Championship had always been played in early November, and the climatic events of the season leading up to it bumped against the NFL season that was heading toward its midseason.

In 2007, a radical change was made in the schedule, moving the Tour Championship up to September, renaming the four events leading up to it the FedEx Cup playoffs, all being contested at the very beginning of the NFL season.

What was left was the Fall Series. I'm not a fan of the PGA Tour's solution of making the season a wraparound.

The start of the golf season the first weekend of January in Hawaii had become a tradition. Football was down to the playoffs, and just a few college bowl games remained. Putting the start of the golf season against football wins is a losing proposition.

As a result, what happens in...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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