Playoff criticism too hasty, says Cink (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports) ATLANTA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - American Stewart Cink, one of four players on the PGA Tour's policy board, is upset some of his peers have criticised the inaugural FedExCup playoff series....more...PGA Tour playoff idea should be trashed (Daily Southtown) For eight months, the PGA Tour publicity machine touted the coming of the FedEx Cup playoffs as the greatest invention for golf since the metal wood....more... PGA playoff format just doesn?t need tweaking; it needs to be scrapped (The Providence Journal) The PGA Tour should forget about tweaking the FedEx Cup series....more... Playoff finale greens in disastrous shape (CBS Sportsline) The PGA Tour confirmed Sunday that the greens at next week's FedEx Cup series finals are in such dire straits, unprecedented steps are being taken to save face. The 30 players in the elite field won't be allowed to set foot on them until play begins at East Lake Golf Club in Thursday's first round. ...more... PGA's playoff idea should be shipped to a trash bin (Daily Southtown) For eight months, the PGA Tour publicity machine touted the coming of the FedEx Cup playoffs as the greatest invention for golf since the metal wood. It was said everyone would play in all the playoff rounds for which they were eligible....more... Oden awaiting surgery to fix sore right knee (Denver Post) Trail Blazers center Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft this summer, will undergo exploratory arthroscopic surgery this week because of pain in his right knee....more... Cowher gets razzed in CBS analyst debut (USA Today) NFL TV game plans included some new schemes Sunday. What stood out: CBS studio analyst Bill Cowher is this season's best-known TV rookie, and he was lightly hazed Sunday....more... Mike Nadel: PGA?s version of playoffs is a joke (The State Journal-Register) LEMONT ? Remember when the Chicago Bulls were preparing to play the Indiana Pacers in the 1998 Eastern Conference finals and Michael Jordan, claiming he was a little tired, decided to skip the series?...more... Finchem not shuffling deck - yet (Boston Globe) As he addressed the media yesterday outside of Chicago, Tiger Woods invoked card-playing into a discussion about a change he'd love to see in the first PGA Tour playoffs....more... |