Web.com Championship: Good and Bad Aspects Still Give 50 Guys PGA Tour Cards

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Published: September 30, 2013

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If you thought the FedEx Cup points—with the resets and the Tour Championship points addition and subtraction—were a lot of fun, then you had to love the Web.com Tour Championship. Other than knowing who was leading the tournament, it was practically impossible to understand the money and the cards and who was in and who was out until the dust had settled.

Of course, if you are a human with a cloud computer implant or Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, no problem. Maybe Google Glass would do the trick. For the rest of us, it was beyond crazy. There was just too much going on.

That doesn't even touch the issue of who was in the event and who wasn't and what some of the players think about that subject. Overlaying all that is the fact that these four events replace Q-School. That's their purpose.

For competitors, figuring out where they stood at the Web.com Championship had to be a nightmare. Every time someone finished a hole or posted a final score, everybody else's money list position could, theoretically, change.

For those who did not get a PGA Tour card with their regular Web.com seasons, they had to make the top 25 in the four-week money. So the tournament wasn't just a golf tournament where somebody wins and gets a trophy and a really nice check. Winning takes care of everything, but only one can win.

Unlike the old Q-School, guys who missed the cut could get a card because this was about money earned for four weeks. Troy Matteson, for instance, was in 13th place in money before the Web.com Tour Championship, missed the cut, but still got his card.

Seung-Yul Noh, who was on top of the money list, didn't enter the tournament. He went to Korea. He also got a card. 

During the final event, it was hard to figure it out who was in jeopardy. Even the bubble boy graphic didn't help because it ignored what was going on with the rest of the field, for those who wanted to know. ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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