The FedEx Cup At Bethpage Black?

[Jim_Kennedy]

So this morning a few players were sitting on the porch shootin' the breeze after their rounds and the FedEx Cup came up in the conversation.  They were mostly in agreement that the new format for the Tour Championship was now going to be little more than a sandbaggers delight (I kept mum, but didn't disagree with them), where low gross could easily lose. 

One of them said it was a travesty that it was still being played at East Lake. He felt that giving the leader a 10 stroke head start was a contrivance, so they ought to take it to a course like BPBlack, where, in his estimation, the course would match the scoring system.

I did ask him one question: "Have you ever heard of GCA?"     

[Erik J. Barzeski]

He felt that giving the leader a 10 stroke head start was a contrivance, so they ought to take it to a course like BPBlack, where, in his estimation, the course would match the scoring system.

The leader isn't given a ten-stroke head start.

They're given a two-shot head start over second place. The full ten shots only covers their advantage over spots 26-30. The top five players are within five shots of each other, with 72 holes to shake out the difference.

[Jim_Kennedy]

You can spin it any way you want, but the Tour Championship has been downgraded into a flighted handicap event. If this stupidity was in place last year Tiger Woods would have lost the tournament even though he won it outright.