Well, another week on the PGA Tour and another 19 players will receive a pay check and not get to finish. Now before you get crazy, I know 90% of you don’t give a darn about the players in 70th place. But what about us silly 10% that love keeping track of our favorite players? Hoping against hope for The Miracle. What miracle, going from last to first. Or just fighting to get some Ryder Cup points.
Let me explain. The PGA Tour, or should we say “the television program that shows the worlds best hit a little white ball and appears weekly but has to get off the air before 60 minutes or some other program”, changed the rules this year. It is no longer 70 and ties playing on the weekend. It is now 70 and ties unless the number is over 78 than the number reverts to the closest number to seventy.
I could explain more but you would need an abacus.
At Sony 18 guys got the MDF… Incidentally, MDF stands for “Made the cut, did not finish”, so shouldn’t that be… MTCDNF? Oh, that would take too long and the networks would never go for it.
At the Sony, Jim Furyk said, “This rule sucks.” Even John Daly thinks the new rule is wrong, “"I don't understand the rule," John Daly said after making the cut on the number but being unable to continue. "I think it's crazy. It's a stupid rule, I'm sorry. I grinded my butt off to shoot even. Then I find out on 18 you might not be playing. I just wish we would have known."
And they are right. Just think, one week you can finish 63rd and play on the weekend, the next you finish 63 and “bye-bye”.
This weekend we miss Anthony Kim, Lucas Glover, Chris DeMarco, Ben Crane and Charley Hoffman, just to name a few.
With as many short field events as there are today on the tour schedule, perhaps we should let the players actually fight it out for their income. Maybe these guys could go play miniature golf; maybe they could wrestle. Sure the sun goes down; sure we’ve got to get all those commercials in, but there has to be a better way.
Call me crazy… how about split tee times? How about threesomes on the weekend? All I know is…’Let them play; Let them play.”
