A Radical Plan to Make the "Playoffs" Really Matter
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Repairing the FedExCup
Published 9/5/2007 by Beau Dure at Sports Scope
What can we do to entice Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and company -- not to mention the fans -- to buy into the FedExCup concept at least long enough to show up for the tournaments? Match play: Waggle Room has the most radical suggestion. If it's playoffs the PGA Tour wants, then make them playoffs. A winner-take-all match-play tournament. Given the history of match-play tournaments, we might see a 24th seed walk away with $20 million, but those are the breaks. Six weeks to play four: Phil needs a break? Tiger needs a shift of baby sitting duty? Els needs to do whatever Els does when he's not playing golf? Fine. Let's stretch the playoffs to six weeks but give golfers as many as two weeks off. Here's how: - Weeks 1-2: We start with 144 golfers, just as we had this year. Golfers count their best performance of these two weeks toward the standings. So if you want to skip one, fine, but don't mess up the week you ...
BMW Championship, FedEx Cup, Mickelson's weekend off, club reviews and more have golf bloggers working
Published 9/6/2007 by Blogger Leaderboard at Blogger Leaderboard
... The Waggle Room has their own radical playoff plan to take the place of the current FedEx Cup playoffs. ...
Golf Blog Slog
Published 10/6/2007 by Mulligan Stu <info@waggleroom.com> at Waggle Room: Front Page Posts
I like your winner-take-all plan. The "real" golfers would rise to the challenge and to the top.
I like the idea of the Fedex Cup. It seems someone along the line responsible for making decisions didn't put much thought into the process of arriving at a champion.