On last Wednesday's edition of Pardon the Interruption, hosts Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon discussed the latest tweaks to the FedEx Cup format. I found Kornheiser's comments to be the most revealing:
There are two major championships that are
totally flawed—The Chase (Nascar) is totally flawed and the FedEx Cup is
totally flawed. Two years ago, Tiger
Woods skipped the tournament and won this thing. This past year, Vijay Singh had to just walk
around 18 in order to win the thing. You
cannot have your last event be meaningless.
So whatever you have to do, even if its lie cheat or steal, to give
people a chance to win, then you have to try and do that, in that sense I’m in
favor of this...The last two years of this have been so bad that this has to be better.
As a footnote, I've always appreciated Kornheiser and Wilbon's golf analysis. Both play and follow the game pretty closely, but are far removed from the inner circle of golf writers. I guess that might be why their remarks are genuine. They're not reading Jeff Rude and Ryan Herrington articles each week, rather, they represent the average golf fan.
