It's about time dept. - PGA Tour changes the new 2008 "cut policy"

[Q.Q.Quillume]

It didn't take the Tour long to change the controversial cut policy just started this year.

Clipped & pasted from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022603043.html

PGA Tour Amends Cut Policy

Wednesday, February 27, 2008; Page E02
The PGA Tour amended its divisive cut policy, giving players on the cut line one more day of competition to separate themselves from the bottom of the pack.
Starting this week at the Honda Classic, the tour will return to a traditional 36-hole cut for the top 70 and ties. If more than 78 players make the cut, there will be another cut to the top 70 and ties after the third round.
"On the surface, that sounds like doing the same thing over again," Commissioner Tim Finchem said. "But it's really not, because the field spreads."
The cut policy changed this year to avoid large fields on the weekend, which led to 5 1/2 -hour rounds and disrupted the television window. When the cut was more than 78 players, the nearest number to 70 advanced to the weekend, while the others received last-place money.
The 16-man Players Advisory Council met last week and made the recommendation.
Eighteen players at the Sony Open and 19 players at the Buick Invitational were kept from playing on the weekend under the previous policy. Anthony Kim was among them in San Diego , and it could have kept him from qualifying for a World Golf Championship.

[hawkeye]

sounds good - makes more sense than the last one.

now to eridicate slow play....

[iacas]

I disagree. I think they catered to whiny babies and if they amended the policy at all, they should have just made it low 60 and ties.

Play better. No, instead, they whine and get their way.

[rudygu]

I disagree. I think they catered to whiny babies and if they amended the policy at all, they should have just made it low 60 and ties.

This is so true.

[Shindig]

I disagree. I think they catered to whiny babies and if they amended the policy at all, they should have just made it low 60 and ties.

Really! The people who got "hurt" by the new cut-line shouldn't be the ones getting a far better chance at a good outcome by a change.

[hawkeye]

i think it makes it more interesting for the guys who just make the cut line when >78 make the cut