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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

    We spend our share of time where the ladies played in Hawaii last week. 3:30 is impressive but to be fair they didn’t have to cross streets and what not to get from hole to hole like the men at harbor town. The ladies also had no non-mask wearing fans on site still to avoid. It’s apples and oranges but kudos for the women playing that fast.

    Team cink got a tiny bit carried away Saturday with the yapping. They seemed to fix it Sunday when they barely talked before the second at two; which is where they talked way too long the previous day. 24 year olds are gonna push the line, specially when they know authority is soft like jello.

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    baxter cepeda

    Speaking of slow when are you going to drop an article on your boy Monahans latest move to create a 40 million $$$ premier social media darling competition for the pga tour?

    This new Hunger games like program from the pga tour, which was discovered moreso than announced, and mostly criticized even by the ultra positive Golf Today duo (for obvious reasons) only rewards 10 guys.

    10. That’s the part I’m really struggling with. The least they could do is spit that money 100
    Ways. But they do 10. That’s not exactly an incentive for most guys to market.

    The thing to keep in mind is we can almost predict accurately right now whom those 10 Gus will be for the next 10 years.

    Most of these guys already make more money off the course than anyone. Many don’t even manage their own accounts. Most of these 10 actually avoid the socials …wisely.

    Some sure to be mainstays like Tiger don’t play often due to injuries and because they have so much money they don’t have to.

    Some of the perennial top 10 may struggle to keep their cards; party because they are so active on socials.

    The BIG Quastion:
    How long until the pga tour announces that top 10 members in the potentially cancerous social media darling club are ensured a pga tour card ?

    That would Take more pressure of Rickie. Or maybe give him more pressure from folks on the socials.

    It is understandable that in a world where a quarterback got a half a billion dollar contract, someone like Tiger should be rewarded more.

    But After Tiger there is a huge drop off to the other social media darlings of golf. The thing about Tiger is his on course success matched his off course popularity. But that isn’t always the case…ahem Ricky.

    Like everything the pga tour office comes up with, this needs editing. Although Many observers—if not most— would call it a terrible idea in need of a complete overhaul.

    I would tend to agree.

    The only way this makes sense is if the tour rewards all players making efforts to market the tour.

    You would think and hope many players with zero chance to get in this top 10 would start objecting to this.

    It literally may be the toughest club in golf to get into. Tougher than the green jacket even.

    10 years from now what’s the over under on how many guys will have been at this clubs table?

    I’m guessing between 10 and 20, including a 55 year old (Tiger) and a 60 year old (Phil) still being there a decade from this minute.

    Truly unbelievable.

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      Tom Edrington

      Stay tuned, already done and will be out as the next feature. I guarantee you’ll get a kick out of this one!

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