Why Starting PGA Tour in the Fall Is a Great Idea, If Not for Tiger & Phil

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Published: June 29, 2012

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Upgrading regular PGA Tour events is a good thing.  Upgrading ones that have been struggling with fall dates and no FedEx points is more than a good thing. It’s a necessary thing if the PGA Tour is to remain the top golf tour in the world.  Starting the PGA Tour in the fall is a great idea to boost the Fall Series.

The regular PGA Tour events have taken a lot of hits in the last decade and a half.  The Fall Series has taken more than its share.

The WGC events have made regular garden variety PGA Tour tournaments less important in the eyes of the top players.  Regular events are now after the majors and the WGCs.   In other words, when the WGCs were invented, tournaments like Arnold Palmer’s at Bay Hill and Jack Nicklaus’ at The Memorial fell from being the 6th or 7th most important events on a player’s annual calendar to 9th or 10th.  

Since no one has to play more than 15 to maintain a regular tour card, no top player has to participate in any more than five or six of the remaining 33 events each season.  Granted, while most of golfers play between 18 and 25 events, they are not required to do that.

So what’s a tournament in the Fall Series to do when it has a post Tour Championship date, no FedExCup points and a smaller purse than the rest of the events on the PGA Tour?  It struggles. 

With the advent of 24/7 football, the problem of just getting fall tournaments ON television got worse and then became impossible until The Golf Channel.  And for many markets, The Golf Channel is a cable upcharge, unlike ESPN.     

In terms of the Fall Series, the PGA Tour can’t count on a repeat of the 2011 season when the money list was on the line in the final weeks, and world No. 1 Luke Donald made a last minute commitment to play in the final event to secure a place in golf history by winnin...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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