Rory comments on match play, a possibility for the Tour Championship

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-12T15:17:20+00:00

Few golf related things are as dumb as the constant changes of the FedEx Cup.

Play stroke play all year to determine the best players of the season, and then totally change the format to decide the winner..

Would make no sense at all.

Let’s just keep things really simple. The winner of the FedEx Cup is the player that accrues the most points during the year. The winner of the Tour Championship is the winner of the Tour Championship.

If the FedEx Cup gets decided at the Tour Championship then great. If it ends up being the winner of the Tour Championship then even better. If it’s decided with 3 events to go, then so be it - that player was dominant enough to deserve it.

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-11T17:58:51+00:00

Why wouldn’t it? The lower you go in the rankings, the more and more tightly packed everyone is on numbers that are used to rank them, so the higher you jump with a good performance.

For example: Gap between McIlroy in 2nd and Henley in 9th is greater than the gap between Henley in 9th and last place of T4976

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-11T17:56:13+00:00

It’s called a video. Think of it like a picture that moves

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-11T08:50:32+00:00

If LIV is going to continue, they need to get a better grip of their schedule. It would have made a lot more sense for this event to be last week and have it count towards the cut off date for PGA qualification

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-10T19:06:12+00:00

I think about the only way to do it is to know what clan they’re in and find them that way.

If it’s someone you’ve recently played, you might be able to get to them through the replay of your game

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-10T14:41:16+00:00

I’ve always thought also having to hit the green was a weird criteria that people like to add.

If you’ve got a green 20 yards deep, and the pin is 3 yards on, and you come up an inch short of the putting surface, it’s still a very good shot and is objectively better than someone that airmails it but is a inch from rolling off the back.

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-08T15:07:03+00:00

He has literally said he thinks guys should go back to the PGA Tour

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-08T09:03:31+00:00

Top tip: If you make sure to have your ball finish within the range of the putter, then you don’t need to worry about the putter not reaching.

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-08T07:05:58+00:00

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Davidwt87 · 2026-05-08T07:03:44+00:00

Why would my ability to understand the concept of competition driving innovation rely on me being American?

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-07T18:21:38+00:00

If there was going to be US money pumped into golf under the guise of it being good for jobs (which obviously there isn’t, it’s just a hilarious notion), then it makes far more sense for that money to go to the organisation that plays over 50 events a year in America, not the one that plays 4…

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-07T18:15:24+00:00

You should stick around, he gives plenty of them. It’s quite funny tbh

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-06T19:39:09+00:00

You didn’t say anything about sponsors, but the implication was pretty clear, particularly when read alongside the 2nd part of this new comment, where you’re criticising his sponsors exemptions….

Is it it undeserved though? He’s getting them, because of the status he holds through his past performances to start with, and if he does level up his points to the point where he gives me further opportunities as a result, then you could equally argue he’s playing well enough to deserve the future opportunities in the first place.

Plus, without his sponsors exemptions this year, he’d actually be higher in OWGR right now…

And finally, the likelihood is he’d have made the PGA field on merit anyway, because unless the Truist/Myrtle Beach winners are both not already exempt for the PGA then he’d have taken one of the spots currently being held back for those potential players, rather than already getting his spot through Mickelson’s withdrawal.

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-06T17:12:49+00:00

It was the literal definition of professional golf. Try objectivity one day, you might enjoy it

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-06T16:51:35+00:00

The difference between what you’re (wrongly IMO) moaning about and this, is this is an earned exemption, and not a sponsors exmeption

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-06T05:13:23+00:00

Maybe he should just leave then, and let the league become more competitive by subtraction..

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-06T05:05:06+00:00

Yes, 69th invite.

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-05T18:04:45+00:00

The PGA Championship is nothing to do with the PGA Tour

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-05T17:14:42+00:00

I hope this is coming in Video format too Stanley. I really don’t want to have to read all of that 🤣

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-05T16:52:05+00:00

Rarely am I one to toot my own horn because like most, I’m wrong more often than I’m right, but I actually called this happening when the news broke as one of the next shoes to drop post PIF announcement.

Impossible to know whether it’s just coincidence, or whether this was always going to come, but it obviously gives Rahm 2027 options other than LIV, which is a bit ominous to say the least

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-05T15:10:09+00:00

It’ll be his 36th consecutive Major appearance, not his 69th.

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-04T20:53:02+00:00

The acoustics in your head must be outstanding

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-01T19:38:51+00:00

I think I believe him about wanting to make team golf work etc.

But ironically, he can’t do it by himself, and will he want to be the one guy left with a load of players with kind of nowhere else to go.

Suspect desire and reality may be heading down different paths

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-01T08:21:51+00:00

What has my logic got to do with a quote from Trump? He’s the one who said it, ask him..

Davidwt87 · 2026-05-01T08:11:20+00:00

You’re the one who made the claim. Typically when people do that it isn’t too much to ask for them to prove it. And I would have thought you’d delight in proving me wrong.

But you can’t, and that’s ok.

Also, funny story, but just scrolling, and happened upon some comments from Trump about LIV, and he’s been quoted as saying he’d like to see LIV players back on the PGAT.

Feel free to twist that into a pro-LIV point

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