Despite what Gary Player says within the industrial, regardless of how an awful lot the players love golf, nobody's gotta go in 2014.
At least, no person's going INTO the World Golf Hall of Fame. There could be no inductees subsequent yr.
I've were given links to a number of quick articles right here:
- a CBS post explaining what caused the cancellation of the 2014 inductions
- a GC post listing all the different criteria that are currently used to choose inductees
- an ESPN summary that tells how the changes might affect players like Tiger Woods
Let's see... To get in as a PGA Tour seasoned you have to be at the least forty years old, a member for 10 years, and have at the least 10 PGA Tour wins, majors or two Players titles. (And yes, from what I can find, this is 10 wins OR 2 majors OR 2 TPCs. Given what I pay attention after they speak feasible inductees on TV, I concept they wished sixteen or 17 wins with at least 2 majors.)
To get in from the Champions Tour you have to be a member for 5 years and -- it gets a piece tricky right here -- 20 wins at the PGA and Champions excursions blended OR five majors (everyday and/or senior) and TPC wins.
And in every case, that's just to get on a ballot . Then they have got standards for how many votes you need to get... And reputedly citizens have become dissatisfied over those. In fact, it appears the citizens are disillusioned over who gets a vote inside the first vicinity.
The LPGA uses 10-yr membership and a points machine for the qualifying criteria, which eliminates citizens entirely.
And the International criteria (for each ladies and men) uses each factors AND voters.
I do not even need to think about the potential for confusion within the Lifetime Achievement or Veterans classes, which might be completely within the palms of the WGHoF Board of Directors.
According to the reports I heard, the WGHoF isn't always even sure WHEN they ought to do the inductions anymore! (Currently they're achieved all through TPC week.)
To be honest, I do not see any easy solution to their problems. How can you reconcile such divergent induction criteria when NONE of the individual categories seems happy as is? I doubt citizens will go for a pure factors gadget, and I doubt the points qualifiers will need to agree with their fates to the unquesionably biased critiques of citizens. Since the International category already makes use of each points and citizens however nevertheless isn't happy, it is hard to trust any of the other agencies will be given a mixed gadget.
And can you see ANY of them giving the very last choice to the WGHoF Board of Directors? I think no longer.
If it must be points or votes, I desire a points device -- there is no favoritism involved there -- and letting players who do not qualify on points get a 2nd hazard based totally on votes. I additionally think the LPGA points system is a bit too stressful -- it handiest requires one predominant OR POY award OR Vare Trophy (it really is their scoring award) however does not deliver any of those any actual weight. Regular events get 1 point... However so do the POY or Vare (it is likely approximately proper), and a major only receives 2 points (that must probably be three factors). And let's face it, debates over the relative weight of every would in all likelihood by no means satisfy anybody.
Personally, I'd rather see a simple listing of necessities for all Tours, and then perhaps upload some thing that is precise to every Tour that would alternative for a preferred requirement. Perhaps they could require 10 wins plus 2 majors as primary standards and regulate from there.
For instance, you might allow one substitution of a yearly trophy for one normal win... However no longer 2 of the same trophy for two wins. For instance, in case you won 2 Vare trophies and 3 POY awards on your career, you can remember 1 Vare as a win and 1 POY as a win however not the opposite three trophies. Allowance may be made for a remarkable success, such as Colin Montgomerie's eight-time win of the Order of Merit or any of Tiger's nine-time or 11-time awards. Those forms of achievements should be well worth something extra.
I worry that the large undertaking for the WGHoF can be to make new requirements that are sincerely affordable. With human beings making silly arguments like "a main is worth a TPC and a pair of WGCs plus different wins" as they did with Tiger's five wins this season, it's difficult to trust the Hall might be capable of please all and sundry. Who knows? If the process drags out, we may not see any new inductions for more than one years... Or greater.
But in the end, I guess something's gotta go. Good luck, WGHoF.
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