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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Central
July 12, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Who Were the Ad Wizards? The Western Open is officially dead. |
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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. |
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
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
November 28, 2000
Alan Shipnuck |
Extrapolation Nation Instead of talking about overtaking the NFL, the Tour needs to get serious... |
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
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
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
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
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
August 9, 2004
Ryan Ballengee |
A Lot on the Line The majors season is quickly coming to a dramatic close. And there are a number of prevalent storylines for the week ahead at the PGA Championship in Wisconsin |
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
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. |
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. |
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
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
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
August 31, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Golf and Doping: A Real Possibility The PGA Tour must pilot a drug testing program in 2007 and create a full program for the 2008 season. |
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 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
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. |
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. |
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
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
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
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
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 |
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 Illustrated
October 5, 2000
Gary Van Sickle |
Now, some down time Thanks in part to Tiger Woods, the Olympics and the scintillating presidential election, I don't think I've ever seen a so-called major event draw less attention than the Solheim Cup has this year... |
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
October 2, 2003
Vincent Musco |
Vouching for Vijay Soon after the Tour Championship concludes, the players of the PGA Tour will cast their vote for the Player of the Year award. The man who should win, Vijay Singh, has no chance of taking the honor. |
Sports Central
December 13, 2012
Angus Saul |
Looking Ahead to Golf in 2013 Golf is traditionally a summer sport, but due to its being played all around the world, it can be played by the top professionals at any rate near enough all year round. |
