Similar Articles |
|
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 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 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 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 July 12, 2006 Ryan Ballengee |
Who Were the Ad Wizards? The Western Open is officially dead. |
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 March 26, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
A Tale of Two Tours The new AT&T National golf invitational tournament creates solutions and problems. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 July 21, 2004 Vincent Musco |
State of the Big Four Updated through the British Open, the top four players in the World Golf Ranking (WGR) are: 1. Tiger Woods, 2. Ernie Els, 3. Vijay Singh, 4. Phil Mickelson. Ladies and gentlemen, the Big Four. |
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... |
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 Illustrated August 29, 2000 Walter Bingham |
Teeing Off: Our Cups Runneth Over For the top U.S. Tour pros, the Presidents Cup is one team event too many |
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 July 23, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
A New Open Era The British Open had everything that one could ever hope for in a major championship, including an ending in which the best player was crowned champion golfer of the year |
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 3, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
Captain Tiger Woods? Tiger Woods should become the Ryder Cup captain in 2010. |
Sports Central May 6, 2005 Kevin Beane |
The Slant Pattern World Golf Top 10 I've been noticing another slew of articles complaining about the format of the Official World Golf Ranking, noting that Chris DiMarco is seventh on it even though he hasn't won an event in two years. |
Sports Central December 7, 2009 Ryan Ballengee |
Tigermania 2.0: How This All Will Help Golf Because of Tiger Woods' accident, rumor mill, and subsequent confession, golf has never had more eyes even indirectly affixed on it. |
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 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 Illustrated August 28, 2000 Gary Van Sickle |
Euro tour deserters The shrewdest comment from the NEC Invitational at Firestone Country Club came from Philip Price of Wales. He played his way into contention on the weekend and, believe it or not, was asked about chasing Tiger Woods. |
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 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 November 6, 2003 Ryan Ballengee |
Why Vijay Cannot Be Player of the Year There is one obvious underlying reason for Singh's slight dismissal of the Player of the Year honor: his personality is abrasive enough to prevent some players for voting for him. But, beyond that, there are several reasons as to why Vijay does not seek Player of the Year. |
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 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. |
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 Illustrated November 6, 2000 Gary Van Sickle |
Mr. Cub takes in some golf The Tour Championship at East Lake featured one wild pitch and one strikeout... |
Sports Illustrated October 19, 2000 Gary Van Sickle |
Presidents Cup pluses The Ryder Cup could stand to borrow a few ideas from its half-brother, the Presidents Cup. The daily draft during which the Presidents Cup captains match up the next round's pairings is a fun dose of strategy, part golf, part chess... |
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 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 Central July 11, 2004 Kevin Beane |
Who's Really the Best? Lots of guys are winners on the PGA Tour, and it becomes increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff in the world of golf. |