Various takes on 07 PGA Tour, new TV deals

[Frank-0-Sport]

Greetings ...

A PGA Tour player (he's also an about-to-be-out-of-work TV analyst), a former USGA exec and an online sports journalist each offer opinions on both the 2007 PGA Tour -AND- the new TV deals.

Paul Azinger (from CNN-SI)

Frank Hannigan (from Golf Observer)

Gary Van Sickle (from CNN-SI)

With regard to Azinger's comments -- I do think that the tour pros take the Players Championship quite seriously, but if true, why don't they say so more often? At the very least, I would think that the pros would get on the media for not supporting the Players more.

Zinger is dead on when he says the Fed Ex Cup idea is likely to NOT catch on with fans, and smartly compares it to the quick rise and fall of the Tour Championship.

With regards to Van Sickle's comments -- We're definitely seeing the last of the PGA Tour as it has existed. Several events left out of the Fed Ex Cup mix will probably be gone soon, some as PGA Tour events, some just simply gone.

No one specificly offered comment on the "butchering" of both the Western Open (turned into part of the Fed Ex Championship Series), as well as the Canadian Open (wedged in between the British Open and PGA, with the WGC-Bridgestone event thrown in).

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank-0-Sport

[Frank-0-Sport]

Greetings ...

Golf Observer's Geoff Shackelford weighs in with his thoughts.

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank-0-Sport

[iacas]

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Geoff is a moron. And most of the time, he doesn't even "weigh in" so much as he links to articles that support whatever position he's taken on an issue.

He hates Tim Finchem. He hates distance. And he does both passionately and seemingly without any real basis in fact.