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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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    beege

    The complete utter disregard to the PGA Tour Handbook by Tm Finchem tells a huge story in itself. The favorite son Phil is untouchable, while the unfavorable son Vijay Singh is torched. This, to me shows any golfer can do anything they want, go directly to this case and be cleared immediately. The Tour has no backbone.
    Phil should be suspended for 6 months, fined $500,000. He should withdraw from The St. Jude this morning and go into exile.

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      Tom Edrington

      Wow Bob, I know Phil is glad you’re not the Commish…..we don’t know what conversations he may have had, the PGA Tour is VERY secretive when it comes handling out discipline. But you are correct, Lefty has gotten away with a lot of shenanigans with some shady characters. Not sure the 500k would mean much to him that’s basically a half a week’s pay in his scheme of things.

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        beege

        Hi Tom,
        Of course you are correct about the money being meaningless to Phil but the 6 months is serious. For the Tour to basically pull a “mission impossible” phrase and disavow(sp?) any knowledge of his actions is so biased it makes their “rules” a complete joke.
        The total lack of transparency in this and many other deeds on the part of the tour makes it a laughing stock of sports organizations akin to the IOC. The Tour wants to be considered like the NFL, MLB and NBA but acts like a corrupt political league. Someone in the fake golf media has to stand up to the Tour and i am more than willing to do so.

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          Tom Edrington

          The thing about the tour is that over the decades since its inception in 1968, it has had very few problems when it comes to deportment, unlike the NBA, NFL and Major League baseball. As team sports it is a huge deal to have affiliations with known gamblers. Heck, they told Joe Namath to sell his stake in the Bachelors III nightclub back in the 60s because of who the other partners were. We all know the Pete Rose saga. Golfers, especially the high-profile stars like Palmer and Nicklaus have been model citizens. Yes, the PGA Tour has been fortunate and I think in this case, they simply don’t know what is appropriate. Mickelson is getting closer to the age where he will simply slip into retirement or transition to the Champions Tour where he will be the biggest draw they’ve had since Palmer and Nicklaus.

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            beege

            Tom, they simply in this day and age of information flow and public knowledge of just about everything- still show a lack of transparency and a lack of equal fairness. Regardless of his age, tour status and popularity the Tour cannot ignore its own handbook. This is not a gray area it is a black and white as it can be. He needs to be suspended for a just period of time that fits this clear violation.
            bob

          2. Tom Edrington

            You’re preaching to the choir, Bob….but you know they just kicked this one under the carpet.

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