[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

I can understand some of the players taking the big money but I don't understand some of them.

Phil's career is pretty much over. Whether it's gambling debts or whatever, it would be hard to turn down $200 million. Same can be said for Sergio Charl Swartzel, Lee Westwood, Iam Poulter, Martin Kaymer, Louis Oosthuizen, Grahame McDowell.


Some of the other's are not going to make a ton of money on the tour and are not going to have a real legacy to protect. Maverick McNealy, Scott Stallings, Patton Kizzire, Pat Perez, Abe Ancer, Branden Grace, Talor Gooch Kevin Na, Andy Ogletree, Hudson Swafford, Peter Uhlein and a few others.
Some of these players have bounced back and forth between the PGA Tour and the Korn Ferry Tour. They are much better off playing again fewer players with no cut.

Several at the bottom of the list were never really full time PGA Tour players anyway and were probably never going to make it on the PGA Tour.

Now a few puzzle me and I have a some theories that might explain whay they moved.

Koepka, DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Dustin Johnson have all had some injuries lately and they may feel as though they're never going to be the players that they once were. They can still play at least three of the majors (The PGA of America hasn't said anything yet about the PGA Championship) but they won't be able to play The Players nor possibly the Ryder Cup or President's Cup.

Many have lost all of their sponsors and won't be getting and OWGR points.

The other possibility is that they have lawyers telling them that they are going to sue the PGA Tour in order to get their playing privileges and they are going to win. of course, the Tour also has lawyers that are telling them that they will prevail in a law suit as well.

The DP World Tour sound fairly confident that they are following the rules that have been in place for decades and would also prevail in a lawsuit.

It will be interesting to see how it all turns out.

So far this is just another minor league tour with a few marquee players. They will have to get on television in the US or Europe in order to be a worldwide success. They are also going to have to get OWGR points.

But right now, all they have is a five of the top 30 players in the world, a bunch of guys that should be on the Champions Tour or the Korn Ferry Tour or be playing one of the other minor tours around the world.

I'd be interested in watching the event at The International in Massachusetts only because I've played that course several times.