PGA Tour Fall Series Deserves More Respect

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Published: October 18, 2010

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I’m with Charles Howell III on this issue.  The Fall Series events on the PGA Tour deserve more respect. 

One way to provide it is if The Masters offers an invitation to the winners and if the PGA Tour does what it originally said it would do and award Fed Ex points for the next year for the Fall Series.

“If you win some of these tournaments, you should get in the Masters,” Howell said last week.  “How you can make a decision where if a guy wins a Fall Series event he's not in the Masters? I don't understand that. It's a PGA TOUR event. You look at the field we have this week (at the McGladry). You know, I think sometimes decisions like that are made that aren't the best decisions.”

However, this second class status is a shame for those Fall Series sponsors whose events are not treated the same as pre-Labor Day tournaments in terms of respect for the winners. It slights the players. 

Right now, The Masters invites winners of FedEx Cup events, but since the Fall Series is not in the Fed Ex points, the fall winners are out of The Masters.

Strangely, that was not always the plan.  The PGA Tour changed its original idea on Fed Ex points for the Fall Series.  When the Fed Ex Cup was announced, the Fall Series events were to get points that counted toward the next year.  That idea disappeared in the dark of night.

However, Fall Series money does count on the PGA Tour money list, which is what guarantees players without any other status a place to play. 

When it comes to the Masters, clearly, the PGA Tour talked the Masters into recognizing Fed Ex winners and Fed Ex points.

Don’t say that didn’t happen.

The Chairman of Augusta National GC did not wake up one morning and say over his coffee, “Ah think ah’ll consider Fed Ex winners and points as...
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