"Give the John Deere Classic credit for being creative in recruiting players"

This year's JDC field has had a serious boost thanks to a new tactic used by the tournament committee.  Jeff Rude of Golfweek explains on The Tour Blog:

Give the John Deere Classic credit for being creative in recruiting players. The tournament spent about $300,000 on a charter plane (the one the Dallas Mavericks use) to get players from the Quad Cities to England for the British Open.

Because of that service, new this year, the Deere field is vastly improved. Entering the 2007 tournament, the field included seven players who went to the British Open the next week. This year, 20 players heading to the British came to America’s heartland.

I guess this means that if a player misses the cut Friday, he has to stay until Sunday for the flight across the pond.