Since the Limerick Summary is not on time an afternoon this week (Monday finish in Hawaii, you know), I thought I'd look at a question it is been mentioned pretty a piece this past week...
How can you expand the number of players at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions? (I'll just call this event the HToC from here on.)
The discussion seems to be spurred with the aid of a preference to make more gamers want to expose up, that is a win-win for sponsors, fans, and TV networks alike. But there are some of troubles that make this a problematic scenario...
By my count number there are only forty eight legit PGA Tour activities every year. (Some of these are exchange occasions opposite invitationals like majors and WGCs.) So theoretically, you could have at maximum forty eight person winners within the subject as it is presently set up.
But permit's be honest. It could be a special year if you have NO multiple winners in a given season. That cuts the wide variety of eligible players notably.
And it is not likely that a number of those winners will ever show up. For example, Rory isn't always there (he won three events), Adam Scott isn't there (he won 1), and Martin Kaymer isn't there (he received 2). And despite the fact that they were not eligible this yr because they didn't win, Tiger and Phil NEVER display up. It's truthful to assume that "no-shows" will account for at the least 8 to ten wins in a normal yr.
Furthermore, some gamers may have other responsibilities. For instance, had Ernie Els won this past 12 months he still could have gone to the South African Open wherein he's the host.
Consequently you end up with a complete area like this yr's 34 entries... And Kevin Stadler needed to withdraw after 2 rounds with hand problems.
Some have recommended that the sphere be improved to include beyond winners from the final 2 years or so. But to me that looks like you are watering down the sector given that those introduced gamers aren't always gambling well now.
As you probably already suspect, I have an offer of my personal. I don't count on it to be specially famous, but I sense that it suits the spirit of the event.
Simply put, PGA Tour individuals play all over the international. So why no longer encompass any PGA Tour member who wins an event during the year, whether or not that event is a PGA Tour event or now not?
For instance, Jordan Spieth gained the Australian Open and Lee Westwood received the Thailand Golf Championship in December. Brooks Koepka gained the Turkish Airlines Open in November. Louis Oosthuizen received the Volvo Golf Champions and Sergio received the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters ultimate January. They're all PGA Tour individuals; why no longer allow them to into the HToC at the energy of these wins?
I'll take it a bit in addition: Allow any player who's a member of the PGA Tour on January 1st earlier than the HToC who gained an event everywhere inside the international to play IF the event they received awards global ranking points.
Now you could encompass players who controlled to qualify for conditional PGA Tour club before the HToC who had won elsewhere, or PGA Tour gamers who win the Hero World Challenge or the Nedbank Golf Challenge.
I realise that this idea is unlikely to benefit any traction given that no excursion wants to proportion its gamers with any other excursion. Still, I suppose it's fair that any PGA Tour player with a victory everywhere need to be eligible for a berth in the Hyundai.
After all, a champion is a champion. And nothing proves that "these guys are good" more than showcasing that they can win anywhere.
So it is my cents. The Limerick Summary might be here day after today.
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