As I write this, a ticker at pgatour.com/fedexcup informs me that I have but 184 days, 1 hour, 22 minutes, and four seconds until the start of the 2007 PGA Tour season and, by implication, the beginning of a "New Era" in golf - the FedExCup.
Earlier this week, Tim Finchem laid out the rules, points distributions, and the other mundane details of what will certainly become the most mundane "playoff" system in all of modern sport. It is, after all, the only playoff system in which nobody is eliminated and which accepts participants who won't even be in the league the following season.
The announcement has stirred the pot of discussion, and though everyone from John Hawkins to us here at The Sand Trap has an opinion, I've yet to see one supporting the plan.
Carolyn Vesper Bivens has been at the helm of the LPGA Tour for less than one year, and I am hopeful that she won't last long enough to blow out the candles on a second anniversary cake.
Phil Mickelson won a few events with two drivers in his bag. Since winning the Masters on Sunday, I've received no less than four or five emails from Edwin Watts, TGW, and other online golf retail stores urging me to buy a second driver.
The Players Championship will be played later this week for likely the last time in the calendar month of March. As usual, "The Players" will draw a top field and be contested on a famous, testing course. But The Players is richer than that, and for years, the debate has raged: "is it golf's fifth major?" The answer, unfortunately, is quite simple: NO.
Recently there's been a ton of buzz surrounding PGA Tour Rookie Camilo Villegas and I believe all of it is deserved. With two T2's in his first six tour events, Camilo has shown that he's got the game to compete with the big boys. I started watching Camilo play golf about two years ago, when he put himself in contention week in and week out, never to seal the deal. In the following few paragraphs I'm going to outline why I so firmly believe that Villegas will make a big mark on tour.
