Sprint to the 2013 FedEx Cup Playoffs Begins Next Week on the PGA Tour

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Published: December 26, 2012

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The silly season is over and the golf world takes a short rest between Christmas and New Year's. The world’s best golfers are snuggled safe and sound in their own beds and becoming reacquainted with their kids and spouses.

There will be no time to rest once the PGA Tour season starts next week, January 4-7, at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions from Kapalua on Maui.

The visions on the hi-def big screen of palm trees waving in the warm breezes blowing across the golf course from the blue Pacific Ocean always get the golf juices flowing for golf fans that are covered up with snow, wind and cold in the northeastern United States.

The PGA Tour historically begins each season with two events in Hawaii. The Tournament of Champions is a limited field event that is a reward for being a tour winner in the previous year. It is so important to the big names like Tiger, Rory and Phil, that they never bother to show up.

The Sony Open will be held the following week, January 10-13, at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. The Sony is the first full field event of the year and it gains a new importance to the average tour player this year.

The 2013 schedule will have 37 tournaments that will offer approximately $240 million in prize money. It won’t be easy, however, for tour rookies and anyone else that struggles early in the season to keep their card for next year.    

Eleven of those 37 events are invitational or major championships that lesser known players or rookies will not be eligible to enter. These 11 tournaments also happen to be the events that offer the largest purses.

The first few full field events of 2013 will feel like major championships for the rookies this year.

Because of the new wraparound scheduling for the PGA Tour beginning this year, the 2014 season will start after the FedEx Cup Playoffs end. The players ranked No. 126-200 on the PGA Tour ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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