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Tom Edrington

Tom Edrington spent the first 10 years of his misguided youth as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune. His career brought him face to face with many of sports greatest stars -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Don Shula, countless Hall of Fame NFL stars, more PGA Tour players than he can count. In 1980 he was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America for writing the best news story that year, his coverage of Jack Nicklaus' U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol. Today, 36 years later, golf is still a great part of his life, thanks to competitive playing days and the wonderful people he has met on this fabulous journey.

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    baxter cepeda

    I remember when this guy wasn’t even a blip on toms radar last year. Lol.

    Cantlay truly is my golf man crush at This point. I used to have a big thing for some super charismatic dominant intercultural guy but he’s yet another golf commissioner or a ceo or something else now.

    I did notice something I mentioned to the girls Saturday with Cantlays putting.

    He shuffles twice, looks at the hole, then shuffles quite a few more times before doing that last foot move, looks at the hole 1 more time and then goes. What I see is during that extensive shuffle his eyes get off a bit; at least the putter head gets off line, and balls go left.

    So I’m definitely not surprised his after round fix was that eye line tool. But if Pat wants to avoid that issue recurring, he needs to shuffle less (difficult since that’s like his trademark) or he needs to look at the hole —or his start line (I believe he uses a spot)— every couple of shuffles. So he would actually be over the ball even longer but at least he wouldn’t lose his direction a bit.

    Now, They don’t call him stallings for nothing. I would change my name as a golfer. Take your moms name. The last thing you wanna call yourself coming down the stretch of a golf tournament is stallings. .

    That being said stallings truly is an inspiration. Dj and some others have done some notable self improvements over the years, but stallings, wow, guy went from a talented pudge ball to an athletic specimen. He is enjoying the fruits of his efforts and will continue doing so.

    But The iceman (and his boy The X man) seem to own the playoffs. Hard to see one of these two not taking it at east lake.

    I’m going ahead and saying Cantlay, who almost got the top spot but I believe for a miss on the last by Xander, becomes the first to defend the fed ex cup.

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      Tom Edrington

      Baxter, you may or may not recall that Patrick needed every one of those 10 shots last year — he won by a single shot…….Jon Rahm was the defacto champion — he shot the lowest score…..won the “gross” division, your boy took “low net”

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        baxter cepeda

        Man don’t get me started on the staggered tattered fed ex cup playoffs.

        Tripp brought up one of the many better ideas, which is a combination of stroke play for the tour champion and match play for the final 4.

        This still has the issue of crowning a tour champion —to satisfy coke, and Atlanta and east lake— before the fed ex cup, which doesn’t really make sense.

        One thing is clear; whatever the format one champ is needed because you cannot have a tour champion and then something else called fed ex cup champion. The tour champion part sounds bigger.

        For me it’s so simple it hurts: winner at the Coca Cola tour championship wins the fed ex cup.

        And all the coke and shipping he can drink and ship.

        If players like rahm don’t want 30 guys to have an even Steven chance at east lake then how many?

        Where do you draw the line?

        I like 25 players for Winner take all.

        With just 25 players this would mean the 6 guys starting at even PAR this week would not be there including:
        Scott, wise, Theegala, poston and kh Lee.

        I see a couple deserving guys and some very likeable guys I’d love to see win it all, but you can definitely make a case for dropping at least 5 of these guys from the tour championship. Kh probably be the best from the list.

        That being said by winning the tour championship all of these guys would be very much deserving of being in the tour championship; but hindsight is 20-20.

        Now If Monahan dropped the tour championship another 5 guys to 20 players, the -1 under guys would be out like:
        Collin, Billy, Harman, hoge, and conners.

        Cases can be made for all of these guys to have a even Steven chance at the tour chip. But then again some may argue it should be even more prestigious than what these guys have accomplished this season.

        The next list, the guys at -2 under all definitely feel like they belong and deserve an even Chance at the fed ex cup based on the work they have done this season. Guys like:
        spieth, homa, Hideki, Joaquin, and viktor.

        So maybe the tour championship goes from 30 to 15 players—especially considering a bunch of stars have left— but this way winner takes all definitely makes sense.

        There are 9 multiple winners this year, they certainly deserve it. But I’m also ok with 30, so long as whomever wins wins it all!

        Cantlay said no one knows the answer to fed ex and said he would leave it to smarter people than him—which I don’t think there are any such people in golf.

        Since Pat can focus on just executing in any format it’s left to people like us and Tripp, who excitedly said he knows the answer!

        But Again Tripps plan while solid and definitely better than Monahans has the major issue of the tour championship being decided before the fed ex cup which unfortunately doesn’t make sense.

        And it’s not like the pga tour is known for match play.

        So how can they finish that way?

        Unless they add much more match play throughout the season, which I’m very much in favor of regardless of the draw backs. Please don’t explain the draw backs again. We get it. They pga tour and media partners don’t want to lose their stars on Sunday, but then again they let a bunch of stars go and told them never to return. Somehow this is different.

        The pga tour has a ton of issues these days but this issue does not need to be so complicated.

        They just need to friking play it off over 72 holes as they love to identify with on the pga tour.

        It’s just a matter of how many guys deserve get invited into this winner take all coke tour championship for the fed ex cup. Something like that. They can play with the title a little.

        But its that’s friking simple!

        Now, the earlier rounds of the playoffs are another story.

        Another issue. It’s ridiculous as guys finish they don’t know if they made it to the next round or not.

        The guys on the bubble should know exactly what’s going on. The only way to do that of course is a straight up golf tournament deciding who’s moving on.

        Top guys should get byes —some possibly all the way to east lake— other past one or two rounds ( bye players may still have to compete) —but the rest should have to make one cut at a time to move to the next playoff event regardless of what their regular season record is.

        I would have 100 in the playoffs over 4 events and the bottom 25 each week are out (unless they have a bye). The 25 at east lake play for the chip.

        Please?!

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          Tom Edrington

          I’ll forward your suggestions to the Tour.

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