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  1. 1. Do you care about the Champions Tour?

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I don't care, do you?

I mean, yesterday is a good example:

1) Tiger Woods beating out a field of strong competitors, including Tom Lehman, the next Ryder Cup captain, on a great course which will host a US Open

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2) Tom Watson "battling" Dana Quigley, who won all of $92k in career earnings on the PGA Tour, over three playoff holes before unceremoniously flying over the green on a 140-yard par 3 to bogey and lose.

Does anyone care about the Champions Tour? I care about the LPGA Tour more than this. Though I admit it's a toss-up between the Champions and Nationwide tours...

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One of my big problems with the golf channel is all their replays of the damn champions and nation wide tours since those are the tours they cover.

I really don't see why they can't ink a deal with the PGA tour to cover some of the early round action before the big networks get to their time slots.
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I really don't see why they can't ink a deal with the PGA tour to cover some of the early round action before the big networks get to their time slots.

I think it may be an issue of manpower at that point. Cameramen, announcers, etc. Covering even two days of a PGA Tour event per year probably runs $1,000,000 in equipment, travel, salaries, etc.

Incidentally, please don't take my first post to mean I don't like Tom Watson. He's one of the greats of all time. It just seems so melodramatic, and in fact a bit sad, to see him playing "senior golf." I wish the greats that hit that age would find other outlets for their competitive spirit. Whoopty doo, newly-fifty Peter Jacobsen beats up on sixty-year olds.

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If I am going to spend time sitting on my butt watching golf, it is either the PGA Tour or the LPGA. If neither is on then my time is better spent elsewhere - practicing, working on the house, writing, playing with the grand kids or old lady, etc., etc.......

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