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Matthew Essig

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Re: Oak Hill and the PGA - Out of Date, or a Breath of Fresh Air?
« Reply #75 on: August 13, 2013, 08:51:42 PM »
Quote from: MarkW00dger on August 07, 2013, 07:25:48 AM
on the subject of the tournement itself i read (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/23575118) that Timmy Fincham convinced the PGA of America to stop calling it "Glory's last shot" because there is the FEDEX Cup stuff a few weeks afterwards. The payoff was an extra week between the end of the FEDEX cup and the Ryder Cup.

Not sure how long it had been marketed as "Glorys Last Shot" but this bothers me because they are trying so so hard to make the fedex cup relevant and are tampering with Majors to do so. The FedEx cup may one day be viewed as an important championship but i think that takes time not different marketing.

Anyway really looking forward to this week, don't know a huge amound about the course so I am looking forward to seeing it on TV.



Isn't that why they are thinking about moving the PGA to October?
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Brent Hutto

Re: Oak Hill and the PGA - Out of Date, or a Breath of Fresh Air?
« Reply #76 on: August 13, 2013, 08:55:16 PM »
I imagine they'd like to move it to October to get their lucratively sponsored "FedEx whatsit" moved up further before football season when the world effectively ends for all other sports...

FedEx gives money to the Tour. The PGA Championship mints money for the PGA of America. So of course the Tour wants to claim that precious pre-football limelight for their cash cow.
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Matthew Essig

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Re: Oak Hill and the PGA - Out of Date, or a Breath of Fresh Air?
« Reply #77 on: August 13, 2013, 09:25:47 PM »
Quote from: Brent Hutto on August 13, 2013, 08:55:16 PM
I imagine they'd like to move it to October to get their lucratively sponsored "FedEx whatsit" moved up further before football season when the world effectively ends for all other sports...

FedEx gives money to the Tour. The PGA Championship mints money for the PGA of America. So of course the Tour wants to claim that precious pre-football limelight for their cash cow.

This may be true, but I thought the major reason was to move the date away from the other majors and to give the PGA a new "flavor." Sort of like how the Masters incorporates Spring, the PGA will have Autumn.
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Matthew Essig

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Re: Oak Hill and the PGA - Out of Date, or a Breath of Fresh Air?
« Reply #78 on: August 13, 2013, 09:51:25 PM »
With the new PGA Tour schedule, I think the PGA in October would make it "Glory's First Shot!" (might be wrong)
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Ronald Montesano

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Re: Oak Hill and the PGA - Out of Date, or a Breath of Fresh Air?
« Reply #79 on: August 14, 2013, 11:48:59 PM »
From Ran's review of The Dunes Golf & Beach Club (http://www.golfclubatlas.com/courses-by-country/usa/dunes-golf-beach-club/)

Brad Faxon once told the author that one of the reasons that he liked Harbor Town so much was because of the trees and how the overhanging branches made one shape the ball both ways during one’s round. Many of the other courses on the PGA Tour don’t require the golfer to work the ball, such is the sad state of the modern power game where brute strength and distance are more cherished than shotmaking and finesse.


How many on this forum have criticized Oak Hill for this very thing?
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