The FedExCup is now in the midst of its 14th season, and like the scores at the Northern Trust, it also is a joke. Golf fans now have a sufficient sample size to discern that the FedExCup, despite its prestigious spelling, is simply a money grab for golf professionals and a marketing strategy for FedEx. The so-called playoff format is a true gimmick, and the cockamamie FedExCup Starting Strokes system, if you can understand it, is ludicrous. No matter how much money you throw at it (albeit $60 million total in bonus money in this years’ FedExCup Playoffs, with the FedExCup champion taking home a cool $15 million, is nothing to sneeze at) the Fedex Cup Playoffs will never come close to rivalling in importance golf’s four major championships, and the FedExCup itself will pale in comparison to the Claret Jug or any of the trophies for winning a major championship, no matter what the prize money (and no matter the trophy is designed and designed and crafted by Tiffany & Co.) This is especially true if the golf courses utilized for the Fedex Cup Playoffs resemble pitch-and-putt layouts in terms of scoring. Perhaps the FedExCup participants should just putt the ball into the clown’s nose on the final hole to win the sterling silver FedExCup trophy.
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I quiver with anticipation for the comeuppance the professional golfers are going to experience when they hit the links at Winged Foot for the U.S. Open in three weeks. Ooh boy, will that be something to behold.
AMDG
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