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Sports Central
May 6, 2009
Ryan Ballengee |
Ranking the PGA Tour Schedule It has become clear that the PGA Tour is considering the development of a policy that will try to compel its membership -- primarily its best players -- to play in more events with a wider variety.   |
Sports Central
March 26, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
A Tale of Two Tours The new AT&T National golf invitational tournament creates solutions and problems. |
Sports Central
August 29, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
FedEx Cup: We Can Rebuild It A list of ideas to improve the PGA Tour and FedEx Cup. |
Sports Central
July 12, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Who Were the Ad Wizards? The Western Open is officially dead. |
Sports Central
May 26, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Why the PGA's FedEx Cup is Empty The more I find out about how the FedEx Cup is shaping up, the more discouraged I become about the potential value of this series. |
Sports Central
November 30, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
The European Tour's Global Impact The Dubai World Championship, played in November each year, will be the richest tournament in professional golf history. |
BusinessWeek
October 31, 2005
Dean Foust |
The PGA Tour: Sand Trap Ahead As it negotiates new TV deals, the Tour finds itself in a weakened position. |
Sports Central
October 7, 2008
Ryan Ballengee |
European Tour vs. PGA Tour: Game On? The potential for more appearances on the European Tour by perennial PGA Tour players has the Euro Tour brass and Euro golf media claiming a changing of the guard in golf is eminent. |
Sports Central
April 14, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
When Dripping and Driving Don't Mix So far, poor weather has effected sixty percent of golf tournaments in 2005. |
Sports Central
May 29, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
The PGA's Head-Scratching Scheduling The PGA Tour is making decisions that negatively impact some of their best events. |
Sports Illustrated
February 29, 2000 |
The Trouble with Tigermania Don't tell the LPGA that Tiger Woods has been great for golf |
Sports Central
November 2, 2005
Ryan Ballengee |
Show Me the Money (List) The chase for the top 30 on the money list is one of the few times when the Tour season strings together. |
Sports Illustrated
August 24, 2000
Gary Van Sickle |
Ten best tournament finishes The duel between Bob May and Tiger Woods. Woods thought it ranked as one of the great finishes in golf history. He's probably right. Here's my list of the 10 best major tournament finishes since 1960... |
Sports Central
January 7, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
PGA Tour Already in Trouble? There are some noticeable absences this week that diminish the quality of the PGA season opener. |
Sports Central
May 5, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
Is the PGA Giving Up Too Soon? With 70% of the teams or individuals qualifying for the first round of playoffs, the PGA Tour FedEx Cup doesn't really begin until the second round. |
Sports Central
October 23, 2004
Ryan Ballengee |
King of the Links: How to Make Golf Exciting Even as a golf fan and commentator, I find the last few months of the golfing season to be incredibly tedious |
Sports Central
February 3, 2009
Ryan Ballengee |
Compromise is Inevitable For PGA Tour While PGA Tour sponsorship is not a $50 million proposition, it is a multi-million dollar proposition. That is the kind of expenditure that draws a critical eye if exposed to the public. |
Sports Illustrated
June 1, 2000
Gary Van Sickle |
Golf questions Prepping for a major... Cypress Point... The PGA Championship... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
September 26, 2000
Jaime Diaz |
Is Texas Toast? To be successful these days, a PGA Tour event must have three things: a title sponsor who puts up a big purse, good dates and Tiger Woods. The venerable Texas Open has none of the above, which makes tournament organizers fearful that the 70th Open, played last Sunday, could be one of the last. |
Sports Central
March 11, 2005
Ryan Ballengee |
How to Improve the Golf Season Focusing more on choice players and shortening the golf season will attract more viewers, benefiting golfers, networks and charities. |
Sports Central
December 1, 2005
Ryan Ballengee |
Superstar Hypocrisy on the Tour It is hypocritical to cry out that the PGA Tour season is way too long, but then go ahead and play several more events well after the schedule ends. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2008
Ryan Ballengee |
How to Make Golf Sponsorship Work The first real gap on the PGA Tour schedule in several years has caused the media community to go on the offensive about the Tour's woes. |
BusinessWeek
April 30, 2010
Helyar & Helm |
Forget Tiger. The PGA Has Bigger Problems Professional golf's period of rapid growth from 1996 to 2008, when prize money grew fourfold to $278 million a year, is over. |
Real Travel Adventures
November 2005
Jane Danielson |
The Best Seats in the House The Players Tournament held at the TPC Sawgrass Stadium course is handicap accessible and the golfers just walk right in front of you to tee off. |
Sports Central
May 7, 2007
Will Tidey |
Seve, Great White Shark Set for Kiawah Set against Kiawah Island's cinematic vistas, a 156-player field will bring together nine former champions for the Senior PGA Championship. |
Sports Central
August 26, 2008
Ryan Ballengee |
The PGA's FedEx Cup Conundrum Through making the changes it did from one season to the next, the Tour has proven that the FedEx Cup lacks identity. |
Sports Central
November 11, 2004
Kevin Beane |
The Rainy Forecast of American Golf The PGA Tour season has anticlimactically come to an end, goes the conventional wisdom ... and here we have yet another case where conventional wisdom is wrong. |
Sports Central
May 24, 2007
Will Tidey |
Bryant Ready For Kiawah Challenge For some PGA golfers, life begins at 50. That's how it was for Brad Bryant. |
Sports Central
January 25, 2010
Ryan Ballengee |
The Inconvenient Ruse of the Independent Contractor There is not a single player inside of the top 35 of the Official World Golf Rankings at the Bob Hope Classic this week. |
Sports Central
January 19, 2005
Ryan Ballengee |
Over What Hill? Vijay Singh's success is the ultimate example of the trend in golf toward superior players extending their careers or even improving at the end of a career. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2009
Ryan Ballengee |
Show Me the Money: Tiger vs. Jack Fellow golf blogger One-Eyed Golfer must have known that I was going to take him up on his challenge to compare the lifetime earnings of Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus. |
Sports Central
September 22, 2015
Marc James |
A Three-Way Battle For Golf Supremacy The talk was about a new rivalry at the top of golf's world rankings between Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth, but golf fans can now look forward to what should be an ongoing three-way battle including Jason Day. |
Sports Central
April 14, 2008
Joe Boesch |
The Masters of Golf The Masters is not so much about winning the money ($7.25 million purse), but about the privileges that come along with it such as an invitation to play in the other three major championship events. |
Sports Central
May 16, 2005
Vincent Musco |
A Look at Golf's Next Five Most followers of the PGA Tour can easily name the top five players in the world, but who can identify players ranked 6 to 10? Here's a look at golf's Next Five. |
Sports Illustrated
November 28, 2000
Alan Shipnuck |
Extrapolation Nation Instead of talking about overtaking the NFL, the Tour needs to get serious... |
Sports Illustrated
May 20, 2002
Gary Van Sickle |
Tataurangi shows a lot of heart The easy part is over for Phil Tataurangi. Thanks to his tie for fifth at last week's MasterCard Colonial, he's already won more than enough money to be a lock for exempt status in 2003. The slightly more difficult part is seeing a cardiologist and possibly undergoing an operation... |
Sports Central
January 18, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
FedEx Cup: Delivering Results? In the eyes of the creators of the golf FedEx Cup, the Mercedes-Benz Championship and Sony Open are basically worth the same in FedEx points. Why? |
Sports Central
January 13, 2005
Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern's World Golf Preview To ring in the New Year, it's time to present the Slant Pattern World Golf Top 10 golfers for 2005. |
Sports Central
March 31, 2009
Ryan Ballengee |
Tiger's Win Overshadows Masters Contenders In case you hadn't seen or heard, Tiger Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational last Sunday with a dramatic 16-foot birdie putt on the final hole of the tournament. |
Sports Central
February 21, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
Golf's Identity Crisis The game of golf is exhibiting signs that it is clearly struggling with the same problems of someone in a midlife crisis. |
Sports Central
September 14, 2004
Ryan Ballengee |
Vijay's Well-Deserved Recognition Vijay Singh, in the midst of one of the best seasons in PGA Tour history, has officially usurped the world number one ranking from Tiger Woods, at his own tournament, nonetheless. |
Sports Central
November 21, 2009
Ryan Ballengee |
Trump Headlining a Golf Tour a Bad Idea If Trump were to try to challenge the LPGA Tour and build his own women's tour, he would be much more prudent and learn lessons from the U.S. Pro Golf Tour. |
Sports Central
March 28, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Measuring a Man's Worth How much is PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem really worth for his contribution to the Tour? |
Sports Illustrated
January 21, 2002
Gary Van Sickle |
Having a ball at the Hope My debut at the Hope last week was a pleasant surprise. If you're a golf fan who's thinking about attending a tour event someday, check this one out. For starters, it's near Palm Springs, Calif.... |
Sports Central
November 2, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Showing Something Els Ernie Els is an incredibly talented golfer, a gentle giant of a human being, has the perfect attitude for this sport. He also has something that a lot of the Tour's elite seem to lack at times -- heart. |
Sports Central
April 27, 2004
Ryan Ballengee |
The PGA Train Needs Coal For the PGA Tour to continue its seven-year run of increased attendance and mainstream popularity, at least one young gun, like Tiger Woods, has to become a consistent challenger on Tour. |
Sports Illustrated
April 17, 2000
Gary Van Sickle |
Life as a Masters champion Vijay Singh after the Masters |
Sports Illustrated
August 27, 2002
Gary Van Sickle |
Not in a Funk The hottest golfer in the world (well, close to it) showed up at the NEC Invitational at Sahalee Country Club almost by virtue of the flip of a coin. His name is Fred Funk, and he has finished second three times within six weeks. |
Sports Illustrated
December 4, 2000
Gary Van Sickle |
Tiger's top shots of 2000 What makes Woods' year unique was his supreme domination in two of the majors and -- perhaps this is a benefit of having every one of your swings televised -- the number of unbelievable shots this guy pulled off every time he played... |
Sports Central
March 24, 2010
Ryan Ballengee |
Tiger, IMG, and PGA Tour: The Battle For Pro Golf in the U.S. The future business model of golf depends on the ability for tours to deliver events with star-studded fields. |
