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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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  1. 1

    williambaker

    Agree it’s a bad idea. My suggestion – no handicaps. 32 guys get in based on Fed Ex points. Play match play for 2 rounds (the seeding should give players with the highest points at least a theoretical advantage), reducing field to 8. Those 8 play 2 rounds to determine winner of Tourney and FedEx. If 8 aren’t enough, could double field to 64 to start, finish with 16 playing last 2 days.

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      Tom Edrington

      Bill, pretty creative, the PGA Tour hates creativity!

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    baxter cepeda

    I do prefer Toms idea of giving the strokes on the hardest holes over starting The leader at -10 under, which is hard to believe is actually happening.
    If anything start JT at Even Par and the bottom guys at +10 over.

    But Toms Alabama analogy is perfect. No one gets an advantage in the final of a playoff because of previous success. No one. So why do it here?

    Let’s also remember the first two rounds of the playoffs are still flawed by the old points system.

    Also, previously 5 guys we’re even headed to east Lake; now only one player (JT) has The edge; so this is a regression in the evolution of golfs painstakingly slow quest to evolve into a playoff.
    At the very least 5 guys should start even Steven at Bobby’s old course.

    Golf channel needs to Please stop enabling the tour rewarding regular season work. Brooks won 3 times, one in Asia last year.
    Brooks won a major but so did 3 other guys. While top 5s in other majors is great it hardly deserves to be rewarded much for the playoffs over guys whom have had their own multiple win seasons. Rory comes to mind winning the “sheriffs” jewel and all the other stuff he did this season.
    There really are few seasons which says give one man a bunch of extra rewards and advantages. So just play off as much as possible. Especially at the end. It’s so simple.

    Toms tiger point is also a great one.
    This great event will now have one Big Elephant every single year:
    someone will likely shoot lower than the champ but get no accolades; a complete 180 from what happens every other week on tour: 4 rounds, lowest score wins.
    It’s like pulling teeth to get the tour to try other formats in regular Events but then they pull this at the end for all these stakes.
    It’s unbelievable really.

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      Tom Edrington

      Baxter, like I told Bill Baker in his comment: The PGA Tour hates creativity!

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        baxter cepeda

        I’m wondering if the pga tour are a bit too creative being that The solution is so simple.

        Simply Stop worrying about regular season and play off already.

        For me one big solution is byes. Invite all 4 major winners, players champs, playoff events, whyndham rewards champ, and whomever else the tour wants based on whatever. They can even give special invites to increase ratings in India if they like. I don’t care.
        But once it starts May the best man win!

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          Tom Edrington

          Once again, the tour doesn’t have the mentality to be that creative…

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