The drivel you write is nauseating. Does Baseball change its schedule like Professional Golf has? Answer is a NO. Thanks for making my point for me! Now people are voting with their feet, lol. The Ryder Cup gets very high ratings the end of September during college football. Again smashing your points. The PGA is during August a horrible month for major championship Golf. The PGA isn't dead, it's not being maximized. You are using Cubs fans, the most fair weather bunch as ur anaolgy with CGC. Thanks again for proving my point. Cirba agrees that September is better. Why don't u ask Jack how the weather is in Columbus during late May?
Yes, I'm degrading management and tours for pissing on the hardcore golf fans and ruining our season for fair weather golf fans..
Why do I boycott, I already stated. You don't agree w me and I seldom agree with most things you write. Though I don't own a dvr, I do know how to work one and I also know that taping a major in august is most likely to be a mud ball fest of dart throwing. How fun 
1. Baseball certainly HAS changed it schedule and its scheduling structures of play...season used to commence two weeks later, be done by October 10...added an All star break in 1933...more games in 1960...LCS in 1969... Div and WC in 1995...now 2 Wild Cards... day games a rarity as opposed to the rule. Why do you think most playoff (and never WS) games aren't played during the day on weekends now?...bingo...football.
1a. And in micro-context, it changes its schedule EVERY year...the Yankees do not play the Red Sox the same time every year, sometimes home, sometimes away, now (with interleague play [yet another change]) you play different teams every season at different times...still adds up to 162.
2. MLB doesn't have to account for international play, players, other tours, lesser tours, ladies tours, senior tours, a strictly amateur season...
3. To the extent Baseball's season has not changed, it also isn't able to schedule where and when its championship is played, that (until domes) it must be played in reasonable weather as far north as it might go, so the season kinda must be the same.
4. Golf is one of the few sports that isn't successfully adaptable to night play...it loses a third of the time that other sports do...and the further its played to and past the equinox, and toward the DST in early November, the less and less warm daylight the players have to play and the course has to grow, be maintained and used.
5. Yes, the Ryder Cup does get favorable ratings...enough of us cross over fans do support it that way...as long as one day (Fri) has no conflict, and half of the weekend action is contested before football starts...in the morning.
5a. But I'm surprised that the purist in you promulgates the Ryder/President's Cup on even a portion of that basis...I can't believe in recent years that it isn't a big, over-hyped fart to your disposition, which provokes fan rancor and boorish "football fan" behaviors, mindless "U-S-A" cheering, tedious panels and pressers to announce captain's picks and other dressage.
Rivalry/national team pride...UK? Europe? Australia? Are you kidding me? Many of these guys have spent their entire adult lives living in Florida, Texas and Arizona...they're all at the Bears Club in the winter. Rory and Adam Scott are every bit as "American" as Jim Furyk at this point. What rivalry? I won't quibble much about the quality of golf often seen...its good enough, but the most popular,
I-can-compete-with-football part you're attempting to cite, is not the part that I would think stirs a hardcore purist golf fan to be misty-eyed.
6. It's not just your golf season. As the 44th US President said, "You didn't build that." (Mark McCormack did).
cheers vk