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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 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 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. |
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 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 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 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 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 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. |
Sports Central July 12, 2006 Ryan Ballengee |
Who Were the Ad Wizards? The Western Open is officially dead. |
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 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 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 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 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. |
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 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 Central December 2, 2004 Ryan Ballengee |
The Year That Was in Golf This past golf season was rather anticlimactic on all of the major Tours. |
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 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 September 28, 2010 Ryan Ballengee |
The Best is the Best of the Worst Cases We walk away from the 2010 FedExCup thinking that there has to be a better way. |
Sports Central March 6, 2009 Ryan Ballengee |
American Golfing Dominance Over? In very short order, the faces of golf have gotten a lot younger and a lot less American. |
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? |
BusinessWeek October 31, 2005 |
How the PGA Schedule Lines Up Here's a list of tournaments on the calendar -- along with our best guess as to which events might see a change of date or venue: Jan. 4-7, Mercedes Championships... Jan. 11-14, Sony Open... etc. |
Sports Illustrated November 28, 2000 Alan Shipnuck |
Extrapolation Nation Instead of talking about overtaking the NFL, the Tour needs to get serious... |
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 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. |
Sports Central October 8, 2011 David Exum |
Don't Count Out Jimmie Johnson I don't think I'll ever understand why some race fans can't embrace five-time and defending NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson. |
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 May 16, 2000 |
Dossier: Chad Campbell Interview with the alltime money and victory leader on the Hooters golf tour. |
Sports Central August 10, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
Why Tiger Needs to Win at Hazeltine Has Tiger set the bar so high for himself that winning any tournament that isn't a major has become irrelevant? |
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 April 27, 2005 Ryan Ballengee |
A Glorious Saturday A few weeks ago in Las Vegas, the LPGA Takefuji Classic concluded on a Saturday. Although the Takefuji did not set huge ratings records or have a high attendance, the idea to end some LPGA Tour events on Saturday is a good one. |
Sports Central July 16, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
Why Golf Needs an All-Star Game Golf needs an experience for fans that largely serves as a commercial for the sport and provides fans with a new level of intimacy with the game. |
AskMen.com |
U.S. Open Golf Survey How much do you know about the historic U.S. Open golf tournament? |
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 March 9, 2004 Ryan Ballengee |
A Wrinkle in Time So, two guys who were not exactly on the short list of expected winners this week wound up holding the trophy on late Sunday. Mark O'Meara won the Dubai Desert Classic, one of the most prestigious European Tour events, and Craig Parry won the Ford Championship at Doral on the heels of an amazing eagle from the fairway on the first playoff hole. |
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 June 18, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
How to Beat Tiger Woods Why is it that unknowns can challenge Woods in the majors and the supposed best players in the world cannot? |
Sports Central August 2, 2006 Ryan Ballengee |
The Embattled LPGA Commish Nearly a year after she was appointed, the quiet devotion to Carolyn Bivens appears to be evaporating quickly. |
Sports Central November 14, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
One Down, One to Go The curtain closed on another season of women's professional tennis, but the season was not without its controversies. |
AskMen.com |
Tour De France Victories A look at those rare cyclists who were not only able to win the Tour, but who were able to do it in game-changing fashion. |
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 March 3, 2005 Kevin Beane |
The Triumphant Return of Jaidee Why the European Tour runs as good a golf organization as the PGA, and for far less money. |
Inc. April 1, 2010 J.J. McCorvey |
A New Way to Join the PGA Tour The PGA Tour Club gives members and their guests access to premier golf courses, tournaments, and 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 Central June 1, 2005 Ryan Ballengee |
Under Pressure on the Tour Jerry Pate proved that winning, or the potential to win, is never a dull proposition |