Web.com Finals

[SG11118]

Didn't see this discussed anywhere else on TST.  Obviously with Hurricane Matthew happening last week, they couldn't play the Web.com finals in Jacksonville as scheduled.  Considering this event was very important to many of the golfers playing in the event for trying to earn 2016-17 playing cards, shouldn't the tour have found a way to hold an alternate event?  I believe they canceled the event early Wednesday, but it seemed likely it might need to happen several days earlier.  Couldn't they have found a nice golf course in decent playing shape with a CR of over 74 a couple hundred miles inland, and rented it out for a week?  You don't have time to get all the logistics worked out, so no fans allowed at the event.  No TV either, (or real limited TV).  Give the players a couple days of practice rounds and play the event Saturday through Tuesday to give everyone their fair chance of earning their cards for this year?  Sure it may have cost the tour quite a bit of money, and caused some problems with their sponsors, but it seems like they owed it to these golfers.  Thoughts?

[Wally Fairway]

Rub of the green.
Players had weeks to qualify for the promotion, some skipped the previous week - they gambled and lost.
Life happens

Not all that different from Brian Stuard winning the New Orleans Zurich event which was shortened to 3 rounds last year. If they played the 4th round it is likely someone else wins. He basically rode this one week to keeping his Tour card, making it to the Fed Ex semi-finals.
 

[SG11118]

Not a particularly good comparison.  Had they played the 4th round and Stuard finished well but not won, it possibly still would've vaulted him to enough points to get into the top 125 and secure a card.

In this case, they were playing for cumulative money earned over 4 events for 25 PGA Tour cards.  Through 3 of the 4 events, there wasn't all that much money difference between 15th place and 35th or 50th place on this list.  There were at least 10 PGA Tour cards that had the chance to flip to someone else had they played the event.

Over the past couple years, the PGA Tour changed how PGA Tour cards are awarded without much input from golfers.  I'd think they'd at least have the decency to follow through with their methodology as nearly as they could.