Woods Eyes Two-Way Tie For Third To Clinch Cup
/It's the stuff kids will be mimicking on putting greens across the land this week: two putts and I get out of the logjam for third to win the FedEx Cup!
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
If The FedEx Cup Used The Old ADT Format...
/...here would be the 2009 Tour Championship's Saturday 16 using the 2006 version where the field of 32 was cut to 16 on Saturday and 54-hole scores decided the final 8 for Sunday's $1 million shootout (no playoff would have been necessary):
Tiger Woods
Padraig Harrington
Sean O'Hair
Ernie Els
Kenny Perry
Jerry Kelly
Angel Cabrera
Jason Dufner
Nick Watney
Lucas Glover
Stewart Cink
David Toms
Phil Mickelson
Jim Furyk
John Senden
Steve Marino
And the non-qualifiers:
Heath Slocum
Scott Verplank
Luke Donald
Retief Goosen
Steve Stricker
Zach Johnson
Kevin Na
Dustin Johnson
Brian Gay
Mike Weir
Hunter Mahan
Marc Leishman
Y.E. Yang
Geoff Ogilvy
"Without the win-or-go-home scenario that defines playoff competition in team sports, the FedEx Cup will never generate widespread public interest or earn critical acclaim."
/Some prominent writers have very different takes on the FedEx Cup.
Read MoreHave You Set Your DVR's Yet?
/After the second points reset brought Tiger back to the field for the FedEx finale, I completely lost interest in this contrived mess of a "cup chase."
Read MoreGod Really Must Not Care For FedEx Cup 3.0
/Atlantans have been Tweeting and emailing about the torrential rains all weekend and Anne Szeker
Read More"Until gambling on golf becomes part of the mainstream betting action, like college and pro football, the PGA Tour will never have a real chance to make a mark in the fall."
/The SI golf group contemplates the positive ramifications of the LPGA playing a well known tournament course in Torrey Pines (I have to agree, they should do it more often if at all possible). However, this was a more interesting debate related to the FedEx Cup finale:
Read MoreTiger Takes Day Off; Falls In FedEx Cup Standings *
/Now, I know the team at PGATOUR.com is doing their job and doing it amazingly well to keep on top of FedEx Cup scenarios, but look at this disaster of points breakdowns, scenarios, permutations and other nonsense.
Look, I get it that you want to reward the season and playoff play. But the most recent points reset really undermines that argument. If you have to gerrymand the FedEx Cup finish, then it'll never be taken seriously. Never!
Why are all these tough-guy, free-wheeling, free-market loving gamblers associated with the PGA Tour so afraid of old-fashioned, head-to-head, no points stuff, true playoff play at East Lake? Would it be too stressful?
Update on 2009-09-15 15:56 by Geoff
* John Strege agrees that the above information reminds us that the only way to fix the FedEx Cup is to use the old ADT Championship format for the four days at East Lake. You all know I've been campaigning for that since the start.
"Right there it wouldn't pass Architecture 101"
/Len Ziehm talks to a few players about Cog Hill and while the criticisms are noteworthy, I think it's more interesting to see these guys getting more nuanced in their analysis of what makes something poor.
Read MoreTiger Wins; Playoffs Take Week Off To Let Fans Ponder Points Permutation Possibilities
/I tell ya, the drama of wondering how these beancounters keep up with the shifts in points had me watching tennis. Maybe we can get a camera inside the ShotLink trailer, because that's where the numbers crunching probably goes on and where the real FedEx Cup drama lies. Anyway...
Read MoreWoods Fires 62 At Cog Hill; Open Doctor May Need To Make A House Call
/After Saturday's round, I think a pro-bono touch up is in order. No?
Update on 2009-09-13 04:36 by Geoff
Thomas Bonk doesn't think the scoring Saturday has helped Cog Hill's chances of getting a U.S. Open.
"Similar to most"
/Steve Elling asks Geoff Ogilvy whether his opening 68 was inspired by playing the pro-am with Rees Jones, fresh off another Reestorization at Cog Hill. Ogilvy asked Twitterers for questions to pass on to Rees but sadly, did not use my contribution (How does he get all of his bunkers to look the same?).
Read MoreShocker: Players Exhausted As Playoff Stretch Nears Next Confusing Point Reset
/The idea of playing the playoffs so soon after the PGA Championship has never made sense both because of the sheer volume of starts required, but also because it competes with so many sports at their peak (football, tennis, baseball). And as Thomas Bonk writes, the players are already speaking up that this year's run is not going to be repeated if they have any say.
Read More3 Hours And 19 minutes...As A Single
/I saw a few Tweets that uber-slow Ben Crane was playing as a first-out single at TPC Boston and now Michael Whitmer makes it official:
Read More"Stricker wins and ESPN leads with Tiger's 63 and mops up the recap with oh by the way Stricker gets it up and down for the win. Wow."
/John Strege at GolfDigest.com sounds a bit perplexed that new master Tweeter Peter Kostis is calling out a rival network for excessive Tiger Woods coverage at the expense of others.
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