Photo taken from Rapid City Journal web site
The Tour Championship is this weekend and the end of the FedEx Cup after four weeks of tournaments. The top runner in the Cup and this weeks tourney is obviously the best in golf, Tiger Woods. Tiger shot a -6 64 on Thursday which isn't a bad round in any way. On Friday though, Tiger shot a seven under 28 on the front nine which is not supposed to happen to a regular individual. He made birdies on five consecutive holes (holes 4 thru 8) and then to finish that off made an eagle on hole 9 (which is a par 5). At this posting, Tiger is one under thru 3 holes on Saturday and is leading the tournament by three shots over Woody Austin. There have been shots taken by the big time golfers (Woods, Mickelson, etc) about the way the FedEx Cup is run and the rules of it. The biggest problem many people are having is that there are four golf tournaments in four consecutive weeks which can get pretty grueling for some people I agree with that. So to make their positions known, Tiger out of the blue during the first tournament of the FedEx Cup stated that he would miss the tournament to take a week off. The Commissioner was not very happy because the PGA basically centered the tournament around Tiger and people who paid to watch the tournament didn't come to pay to watch Woody Austin or Steve Stricker. Those golfers are good golfers, but Tiger is idol that all young golfers want to be when they get older, not just physically but mentally also. After Tiger's one week break he came back to play in the remaining three tournaments and won last week's tournament to put him on top of the FedEx standings which makes the golfer's point exactly. One golfer should not be able to take a week off in the "playoffs" and come back the next week and expect to win the championship in any sport. In other team sports, whole teams cannot take a game off in a seven game series and expect to win the whole thing, the same thing applies in golf. I like the concept of there being a playoff system on golf at the end of the season to give some closer in golf, but before making the system, make sure that the big time golfers in the PGA are ok with it or happy with it so that they don't take shots against you as the commissioner. In the end, Tiger has been shooting the lights out the last couple of weeks and is two under thru four now in the 3rd round of the Tour Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.
Enjoy,
Ryan
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