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Who will win the FedEx Cup this year?
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Who will win the FedEx Cup this year?
With the PGA Tour’s last event and last day yesterday, we are finally going to finalize this year’s PGA Tour with this week’s FedEx Cup challege.
Who will win? Who’s your favorite picks? Leave your picks in the comments line.
My vote goes to the young Anthony Kim or Phi Mickelson.
Tiger Woods won’t be holding a golf club until 2009!
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Tiger Woods won't be holding a golf club until 2009!
It looks like Tiger Woods won’t be holding a golf club until 2009 folks. Well, that’s what I expected after all those surgeries but the real bad news is for the PGA Tour sponsors.
With absence of Tiger Woods, TV ratings have dropped over 50% over last year. That won’t be a big problem for most folks but for people who are sponsoring the tournaments, they are really losing 50% of their ad revenue.
What’s amazing is that a single human being can effect the TV ratings, especially when you consider the other 200 top players in the world.
Yes, most people would like to watch #1 golfer in the world, not #2 or #3.
As for waiting, I am also really tired of watching golf tournaments without Tiger.
My typical thought process when watching a major these days, “If Tiger was playing, he’s probably going to be 3 better than the field, of course leading the tournament”.
I am sure Padraig Harrington will have plenty to worry about when Tiger comes back. In the meanwhile, he’s free to take all the freebie tournaments as he can.
“As far as swinging a club, that’s not going to happen until next year,” Woods wrote in a blog on tigerwoods.com. “I just don’t have a choice. We simply don’t know what type of swelling there would be or if there would be any residual effects the next day once you start wheeling and dealing on the knee.
Without Woods, the Nielsen ratings for the last two majors were dramatically lower, despite consecutive inspiring victories by Padraig Harrington.
The PGA Championship on CBS had a final-round overnight rating of 3.0, a drop of 55% from last year when Woods won. And the final round of the British Open on ABC had an overnight rating of 3.5, a decrease of 14.6% from last year.
If the Ryder Cup on NBC can’t deliver big numbers, without Woods, it doesn’t bode well for the upcoming FedEx Cup series, in which Woods won $10 million last year.
One thing I realized though, “Tiger Woods is golf, golf is Tiger Woods“. Without Tiger, there would be no $10 Million in prizes, we might still have boring PGA Tour pros fighting for $1 Million.
At least for the time being that Tiger Woods is breathing, we will get to be part of golf where purses are worth 10 times more than what they should be.
AT&T National Winner – Anthony Kim!
Sunday, July 6th, 2008Anthony Kim comes up with a win at this week’s AT&T National as predicted hours before.
Anthony Kim now is 5th on the FedEx Cup rankings and also move up a lot on World Rankings.
5 birdies, 13 pars for a 5-under 66, very good stuff.
Congrats to another win Anthony and keep up your good work.
I’d definitely would like to see AT&T National to move back to Pebble Beach though.
You can check out my swing analysis of Anthony Kim here.
More Anthony Kim swing videos.
Here’s a video of Anthony Kim’s swing on the 16th hole from yesterday:
(Today, he couldn’t go for the green due to a bad tee shot but still made a great birdie)
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