Bernhard Langer spent the 2017 Champions Tour season winning seven times, including three major championships.
Kevin Sutherland won nothing, until Sunday.
The Champions Tour season came to a close out in Phoenix and the PGA Tour should be ashamed of itself.
After a season that will surely earn him Player Of The Year honors, Langer went home without the Charles Schwab Cup.
Thank-you, PGA Tour gremlins for lousing this one up.
Langer went into the Charles Schwab Cup Championship as the points leader, Scott McCarron was second, Kenny Perry third, Miguel-Angel Jimenez fourth and Kevin Sutherland fifth.
When the smoke cleared on Sunday at Phoenix Country Club, Sutherland shot 15-under, beat Vijay Singh by a shot and walked off with everything.
Langer shot 10-under and tied for 12th. He beat Jimenez, tied Perry, was just behind McCarron but it was the fifth guy that got to him.
Justice?
Hardly.
Fact of life when the PGA Tour tries to make the final event of the season way too important?
Absolutely.
Sorry about this Bernie, you are by far the best out there and they just gave the Cup to a guy who one just a single event.
Balderdash!
4 Comments
beege
Tom,
How can one not look at the pga tour with amazing disdain? they said on the air that langer was one of the guys who did indeed vote for this system—i guess if the browns win their last game of the season that qualifies them for the playoffs? its not quite that goofy but its goofy and the tour gets away with another stupid thing.
p.s.-the tours are about charity? my a**. around 40 tpc’s and pga tour superstores and the shorts i wear to play golf in? please someone tell the folks on the beltway these people are depriving us of around 1 billion annually in tax dollars—please????
4 cups of coffee bob
Tom Edrington
Bob, like Steve Martin said in My Blue Heaven: “I witch you…..”
beege
and they are after goodell for anything they can remotely tie him to that makes the nfl less than perfect–if average joe golf fan had any idea the injustices the tour is part of……….he probably would not care because he has been told CHARITY since day one…….
p.s.–nothing like steve martin for a good one liner–he has had so many.
our favorite these days and for the last decade is larry david–brilliant writer and actor–love “curb”
bg
Tom Edrington
Yes, the Tour is good at the “charity” camoflage