SF: Both. Instead of having eight teams playing we've got 144 guys playing. Resetting everything at the last tournament might be an interesting way to do it. Make it so if a guy wins two of the first three tournaments, he gets the one seed, but he's only got a 100-point lead over number two. And you've got 15 of the 30 guys at the Tour Championship who have a chance, and you've got four rounds to decide it. I don't like just one round deciding it.
GOLF: You've got to admit there are way more interesting ways to eliminate players. Plus, the public can't follow the math.
SF: Neither can the players. The players are not buying into the way the FedEx is run. So how is the public going to buy into it? The only reason I don't think it's totally broken is we have identified the best player the past two years.
GOLF: But the Tour Championship doesn't matter.
SF: I think we have some more attractive ways to present it that we'll present to the commissioner. We're never going to get past the fact that the four majors are, in the public's mind, the four most important tournaments.
GOLF: None of which the Tour has anything to do with.
SF: No, but no one could argue, either, that the Players Championship doesn't have the best field in golf. We wanted to find a way to capture the public's attention in addition to those five weeks, four weeks for a bunch of money. It would be cool to back up a truck and let Vijay Singh dive into $9 million. Our idea is, make it so whoever wins the Tour Championship, let's let him dive into a pile of cash.
