PGA Tour.com is carrying a RealAudio stream of Tim Finchem’s announcement (see previous coverage here), so we’re going to do something a little different: live blog it.
10:05 – Someone can’t figure out how to use the microphone, as it’s on. We are treated to interesting talk about how we’re going to leave the A/C off until Tim is done with his talk.
10:08 – Casually late, Tim eases into his speech.
10:10 – Tim says “we’re not gonna talk about the details of our schedule today.” Someone in the back groans.
10:15 – Tim, despite saying we’re not going to talk about it, talks about it. Details include:
- “If you consider that we don’t have a strong finish like in other sports, or a playoff system, we wanted to create one.”
- “And you want to create a dramatic finish with a year-long points competition.”
- “… on better courses and with better fields…”
- “… and a real season…”
- “January-through-September, based on points structure to be determined.”
- “FedEx will be the sponsor of the ‘FedEx Cup’.”
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