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Ron Sirak, Political Junkie
GolfWorld’s Ron Sirak writes that he found the early returns from the Iowa Caucuses more compelling than the Mercedes Open:
With all due respect—actually with exactly the respect due—Nick Watney and Daniel Chopra lost in my house to Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama on Thursday night. The Iowa caucus was more compelling—and better played. Friday, I went out to dinner and a movie during prime time (and if you haven’t seen “Juno,” do it) and NFL football won the battle for the remote Saturday night. (I am, after all, from near Pittsburgh.) On Sunday, I watched because I have to write this and, well, there is always the danger that the final 18 holes could produce the greatest finish in the history of tournament golf.
Wow. Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks that it was way too early to start the season. Sirak and I also think along the same lines when he notes that while the PGA Tour moved the season ending championship to avoid the start of the NFL and College football seasons, they still start the season during the NFL Playoffs and the College Bowl season, which if anything, is worse.
He also notes that, thanks to the number of relatively unknown winners last year on tour (Daniel Chopra?), the field was full of no-name, while folk like Ernie Els and Sergio Garcia sat at home.
Read the whole thing. In between the sarcasm, he makes a lot of sense.
And in the meantime, I’m going lobby again for my number one idea: that the Tour Championship should be played in Hawaii, so that, with the time difference, it can be in prime time—or nearly so on the mainland.
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Sergio and Ernie sat at home because they didn’t qualify, not because the season started too early. And is there anyone out there, other than me, who would like to argue the point that the football, basketball and baseball seasons have gotten longer and longer over the years so much that you can’t go a week without encountering one or more of the sports? Golf is the red-headed stepchild of sports because it always gets pushed out of the way by these other sports.
As for no-names in the field, Steve Stricker is now #3 in the World, Jim Furyk’s been as high as #2, Mike Weir is the King of Canada. Maybe if people watched more golf and less football, they would be more familiar with these names.
And I’m sure the next move for the Tour Championship will be to Memphis Tennessee, the home of the global headquarters of Federal Express so that all the executives will get free passes to the event.
Posted by Miranda on 01/08
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