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Sports Central December 1, 2005 Ryan Ballengee |
Superstar Hypocrisy on the Tour It is hypocritical to cry out that the PGA Tour season is way too long, but then go ahead and play several more events well after the schedule ends.  |
Sports Central March 28, 2006 Ryan Ballengee |
Measuring a Man's Worth How much is PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem really worth for his contribution to the Tour?  |
Sports Central November 30, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
The European Tour's Global Impact The Dubai World Championship, played in November each year, will be the richest tournament in professional golf history.  |
Sports Central March 24, 2010 Ryan Ballengee |
Tiger, IMG, and PGA Tour: The Battle For Pro Golf in the U.S. The future business model of golf depends on the ability for tours to deliver events with star-studded fields.  |
Sports Central May 26, 2006 Ryan Ballengee |
Why the PGA's FedEx Cup is Empty The more I find out about how the FedEx Cup is shaping up, the more discouraged I become about the potential value of this series.  |
Sports Central July 12, 2006 Ryan Ballengee |
Who Were the Ad Wizards? The Western Open is officially dead.  |
Sports Central January 25, 2010 Ryan Ballengee |
The Inconvenient Ruse of the Independent Contractor There is not a single player inside of the top 35 of the Official World Golf Rankings at the Bob Hope Classic this week.  |
Sports Central October 23, 2004 Ryan Ballengee |
King of the Links: How to Make Golf Exciting Even as a golf fan and commentator, I find the last few months of the golfing season to be incredibly tedious  |
Sports Central August 31, 2006 Ryan Ballengee |
Golf and Doping: A Real Possibility The PGA Tour must pilot a drug testing program in 2007 and create a full program for the 2008 season.  |
Sports Central May 6, 2009 Ryan Ballengee |
Ranking the PGA Tour Schedule It has become clear that the PGA Tour is considering the development of a policy that will try to compel its membership -- primarily its best players -- to play in more events with a wider variety.  |
Sports Central March 26, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
A Tale of Two Tours The new AT&T National golf invitational tournament creates solutions and problems.  |
Sports Central March 11, 2005 Ryan Ballengee |
How to Improve the Golf Season Focusing more on choice players and shortening the golf season will attract more viewers, benefiting golfers, networks and charities.  |
Sports Central February 21, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
Golf's Identity Crisis The game of golf is exhibiting signs that it is clearly struggling with the same problems of someone in a midlife crisis.  |
Sports Illustrated February 29, 2000 |
The Trouble with Tigermania Don't tell the LPGA that Tiger Woods has been great for golf  |
Sports Illustrated October 10, 2000 Walter Bingham |
Teeing Off: Answering the Call Imagine the response if the Tour ordered Tiger to play in a tournament...  |
Sports Central February 3, 2009 Ryan Ballengee |
Compromise is Inevitable For PGA Tour While PGA Tour sponsorship is not a $50 million proposition, it is a multi-million dollar proposition. That is the kind of expenditure that draws a critical eye if exposed to the public.  |
Sports Central May 29, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
The PGA's Head-Scratching Scheduling The PGA Tour is making decisions that negatively impact some of their best events.  |
Sports Illustrated August 28, 2000 Jaime Diaz |
Chat Reel: SI's Jaime Diaz If I were god of golf ...  |
Sports Illustrated November 14, 2000 Jaime Diaz |
Notebook: Tour Casualties It happens every fall. A longtime fixture on the Tour drops out of the top 125 on the money list and loses his card. Dan Forsman was a casualty this year...  |
Sports Central November 21, 2009 Ryan Ballengee |
Trump Headlining a Golf Tour a Bad Idea If Trump were to try to challenge the LPGA Tour and build his own women's tour, he would be much more prudent and learn lessons from the U.S. Pro Golf Tour.  |
Sports Illustrated September 26, 2000 Jaime Diaz |
Is Texas Toast? To be successful these days, a PGA Tour event must have three things: a title sponsor who puts up a big purse, good dates and Tiger Woods. The venerable Texas Open has none of the above, which makes tournament organizers fearful that the 70th Open, played last Sunday, could be one of the last.  |
BusinessWeek October 31, 2005 Dean Foust |
The PGA Tour: Sand Trap Ahead As it negotiates new TV deals, the Tour finds itself in a weakened position.  |
Sports Central August 29, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
FedEx Cup: We Can Rebuild It A list of ideas to improve the PGA Tour and FedEx Cup.  |
Sports Central March 6, 2009 Ryan Ballengee |
American Golfing Dominance Over? In very short order, the faces of golf have gotten a lot younger and a lot less American.  |
Sports Illustrated September 4, 2000 |
Too much Tiger on TV? We have seen the future of golf, folks, and it looks a lot like Tiger Woods. Is there too much Tiger?...  |
Sports Central April 27, 2005 Ryan Ballengee |
A Glorious Saturday A few weeks ago in Las Vegas, the LPGA Takefuji Classic concluded on a Saturday. Although the Takefuji did not set huge ratings records or have a high attendance, the idea to end some LPGA Tour events on Saturday is a good one.  |
Sports Central December 31, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
How to Make Golf Sponsorship Work The first real gap on the PGA Tour schedule in several years has caused the media community to go on the offensive about the Tour's woes.  |
Sports Central October 7, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
European Tour vs. PGA Tour: Game On? The potential for more appearances on the European Tour by perennial PGA Tour players has the Euro Tour brass and Euro golf media claiming a changing of the guard in golf is eminent.  |
Sports Central November 2, 2005 Ryan Ballengee |
Show Me the Money (List) The chase for the top 30 on the money list is one of the few times when the Tour season strings together.  |
Sports Central May 16, 2005 Vincent Musco |
A Look at Golf's Next Five Most followers of the PGA Tour can easily name the top five players in the world, but who can identify players ranked 6 to 10? Here's a look at golf's Next Five.  |
Sports Illustrated January 11, 2001 Gary Van Sickle |
Shaping up I hope you watched the Accenture Match Play Championship from Australia. Steve Stricker's win should remind you what golf is all about -- scoring...  |
Sports Illustrated July 15, 2002 Gary Van Sickle |
10 things to think about This week's Big Ten, a collection of random thoughts, observations and road rage about golf.  |
Sports Illustrated May 19, 2000 Gary Van Sickle |
Where are they now? Golf Q&A: Why can't the majors were held in four different countries... Do you believe Al Del Greco of the NFL could compete on the PGA Tour?... Vicki Goetze?... etc.  |
Sports Illustrated February 29, 2000 |
Chat Reel: SI's Jaime Diaz Sports Illustrated senior writer Jaime Diaz joins CNNSI.com users to talk golf....  |
Sports Illustrated October 5, 2000 Gary Van Sickle |
Now, some down time Thanks in part to Tiger Woods, the Olympics and the scintillating presidential election, I don't think I've ever seen a so-called major event draw less attention than the Solheim Cup has this year...  |
Sports Central November 11, 2004 Kevin Beane |
The Rainy Forecast of American Golf The PGA Tour season has anticlimactically come to an end, goes the conventional wisdom ... and here we have yet another case where conventional wisdom is wrong.  |
AskMen.com August 21, 2002 Mark Simmons |
Golf's Generous Pension Plan In 1983, the PGA decided to get serious about protecting its athletes once their careers came to an end.  |
Sports Illustrated November 22, 2000 Frank Deford |
Privileged existence Alex Rodriguez and Tiger Woods more equal than others. A comment on athletic meritocracy.  |
Sports Central January 7, 2006 Ryan Ballengee |
PGA Tour Already in Trouble? There are some noticeable absences this week that diminish the quality of the PGA season opener.  |
Sports Illustrated November 14, 2000 Alan Shipnuck |
The Hot List: Nov. 14 Hot: Mike Weir, Lee Westwood, Hidemichi Tanaka, Sergio Garcia... Not: Fat and happy Yanks, The 17th at Valderrama, Darren Clarke, Colin Montgomerie...  |
Sports Illustrated September 28, 2000 Gary Van Sickle |
Casey's case PGA Tour on nothing more than a costly witch-hunt  |
Sports Illustrated September 4, 2001 Gary Van Sickle |
Getting in some holiday golf The greens fees at my local golf course have almost doubled in the last year. Anything I can do to take care of this problem?... When is a Canuck going to win something important?...  |
Sports Central December 2, 2004 Ryan Ballengee |
The Year That Was in Golf This past golf season was rather anticlimactic on all of the major Tours.  |
Sports Central March 3, 2005 Kevin Beane |
The Triumphant Return of Jaidee Why the European Tour runs as good a golf organization as the PGA, and for far less money.  |
Sports Central February 27, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
Golf's Version of Pros vs. Joes The supposed difference between players on the professional tours and Sunday hackers is talent. But that is not the reality of the game of golf today.  |
Sports Central May 5, 2007 Ryan Ballengee |
Is the PGA Giving Up Too Soon? With 70% of the teams or individuals qualifying for the first round of playoffs, the PGA Tour FedEx Cup doesn't really begin until the second round.  |
Sports Central July 16, 2008 Ryan Ballengee |
Why Golf Needs an All-Star Game Golf needs an experience for fans that largely serves as a commercial for the sport and provides fans with a new level of intimacy with the game.  |
Sports Illustrated August 8, 2000 Jaime Diaz |
Teeing Off: Suck It Up Colin Montgomerie must play in the U.S. if he's to become one of the greats  |
Sports Illustrated August 29, 2000 Walter Bingham |
Teeing Off: Our Cups Runneth Over For the top U.S. Tour pros, the Presidents Cup is one team event too many  |
Sports Illustrated November 21, 2000 Gary Van Sickle |
On its way Induction ceremony shows World Golf Hall of Fame's potential  |