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Originally Posted by Lefty
The increase in prize money post Tiger combined with the ranking points means that golfers need to play in USPGA events at the cost of other Tours events to maintain the World Ranking.
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The PGA Tour is finally taking steps to raise the ranking points available in foreign events. That excuse will no longer be a valid one soon.
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Originally Posted by Lefty
Living overseas for a large part of the year is difficult and some players (Sam Torrance on the Seniors Tour) do not want to live overseas whatever the money on offer. On USPGA Tour everyone has room service and there is no life off the course. In Europe, the players spend more time together off thew course, making th egrind of travelling and hotels more bearable. Thsi is because most of them will be in a foriegn country at the event ,unlike USA where most of them are in their home country.
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Room service isn't available at European Tour stops?
No life off the course? Get real. The truth is it's just the opposite here in America. Every tour stop heaps perks on all the players. Perks like sporting event and theme park tickets, great accommodations for not only the player but his family too, chauffeured transportation to wherever they chose, etc. Every city they play in has culture, night life, and everything a player could want is at his fingertips. No wonder the world's best players are flocking to the PGA Tour.
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Originally Posted by Lefty
So ,the obvious answer ,again, is to take the cream of the events ,and devise a twelve month tour where all tours are covered.It is unrealistic to put a MAjor in South Africa or Australia in January ,but a $7mill event with the world's top 100 would go along way.
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"Go a long way" is the gist of
YOUR entire problem. I emphasize "your problem" here because I don't hear the PGA Tour players belly achin' about the current set-up (at least not the ones struggling to keep a Tour card.
) The money available to players for playing in even the secondary events here in the USA makes 7 million dollar purses in other parts of the world just another Tour stop and not worth the trouble of flying half way around the world. Why bother when they can play here and not have to miss the tournaments held the week before and the week after these proposed big money tournaments held so far from the US?
You seem to have a "Field of Dreams" attitude. "Build it and they will come" is no longer true in professional golf. Like every other financially driven enterprise, the players are going to take the easiest and best route to the money. Why drive to an ATM all the way across town when there's one on the nearest street corner?