PGA Tour : Fed Ex Cup Tour Championship..Tee Times
Since Taylor Pendrith got over his shoulder injury and declared himself freed up to swing the way I want to swing:
*He has had 23 starts
*won the Byron Nelson,
*13 top 25's 6 top 10's,
*is about to be named to the International Team for the Presidents Cup (IMO)
*has qualified #25 along with the top 30 players in the game for this weeks $75,000,000 PGA Tour finale in Atlanta on the spiffed up East Lake Course.
*He will make $500,000 even if he finishes last..
Great recovery by the long hitting big fella from Richmond Hill they call Pendy who is paired with Chris Kirke at 1138.
Click Tee Times for all 15 pairings culminating with Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele in the final pairing at 2pm.
Staggered start:
I am not a fan, however in an attempt to reward these players for their play during the season the PGA Tour invented " Unique starting strokes format".
Fed Ex Cup leader Scheffler will begin the week at -10, 2nd place finisher Schauffele at -8 and so on down the field until the final few play off scratch.
Scottie has won 6 times this year without anyone giving him strokes, nor does he need them here.
All these guys have played well enough all year to get to this point and should all begin on the same level. Not one of them nor their families needs another cent from golf.
The Majors and Olympics are all over and are enough, end the regular season after the Wyndham, add up the scores, pay them all, let the big boys play the Ryder Cup/ Presidents Cup let all the rank and file play the Fed Ex Fall series to improve their status before Christmas as a present from Santa Golf...
Take all that Fed Ex Cup money and build a hospital with it on behalf of the players where people really need it most.
Playoffs in golf don't and haven't worked like they do in the NHL, NFL, NBA and even MLB.
* remember when VJ Singh had already won the Cup in 2008 before he even played the Tour championship ?? remember a guy called Bill Haas in 2011 ?? or Brandt Snedeker in 2012....
Bryan Angus
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