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The importance of good timing
As noted earlier here, the Shell Houston Open had its best field in decades earlier this month when it was played the week before the Masters. Based on the World Golf Rankings, 15 of the top 20 players, and...
What if they liked the course?
This year's Shell Houston Open during the first week of April is shaping up to have its best field in over 20 years. The Chron's Steve Campbell reports: Tournament director Steve Timms announced another flurry of player commitments Monday that...
Tiger's tournament enters the Tiger Chasm
The Tiger Chasm -- the widening netherworld of golf tournaments that don't attract much attention because Tiger Woods doesn't play in them -- has now swallowed even Tiger's own tournament, this weekend's AT&T National at Congressional Country Club in...
America's slipping grip on golf
First, PGA Tour events had to worry about the Tiger Chasm. Now, this W$J article reports that they also need to worry about competition from tournaments in foreign venues: The U.S. has, for decades, held sway over the international...
Is this the key year for the SHO?
The Shell Houston Open has been a frequent topic on this blog, particularly the tournament's troubled recent history (see here, here and here). This year's tournament is coming up during the week of March 31-April 6 and, for the...
NASCAR golf?
This earlier post suggested a creative approach to generate interest for a PGA Tour golf tournament caught in the Tiger Chasm -- i.e., the neverland of golf tournaments that draw nowhere near the interest or publicity as the 15-18 golf...
Retro golf
Golfweek's Brad Klein enjoyed that outdoor "Winter Classic" National Hockey League game in Buffalo that drew over 70,000 spectators on New Year's Day so much that he is proposing the professional golf equivalent -- a tournament where all the Tour...
"A glorified club championship?"
The first run of the PGA Tour's Fed Ex Cup did not exactly transfix golf fans. However, this Bob Harig/ESPN.com article makes the Fed Ex Cup look like the Masters in comparison to the PGA Tour's initial Fall Series: Dubbed...
The Tiger Chasm swallows the Texas Open
This earlier post noted how the PGA Tour has forsaken the four Texas Tour events that contribute more to charity than virtually any other Tour events. Just to reaffirm that trend, get a load of the following update on the...
Viewing the Tiger Chasm
I don't think that PGA Tour officials had the following in mind when they devised the new season-ending series of tournaments called the Fed Ex Cup: Before the FedEx Cup can run with the big guns at the NFL and...
The Fed Ex Cup enters the Tiger Chasm
Chronicle golf columnist Steve Campbell reports that the Fed Ex Cup -- the PGA Tour's new series of tournaments intended to breath life into the lifeless end of the golf season -- has entered the dreaded Tiger Chasm even before...
The Tiger Chasm widens
Gee, I thought the fields for the Shell Houston Open Golf Tournament had slipped badly over the past several years. But those depleted fields are nothing compared to the experience of this week's Greater Greensboro Open (now called the "Wyndham"...
The PGA Tour's Texas Mess
The Tiger Chasm has had an extremely detrimental effect on the Texas PGA Tour events (see here and here). Texas golf writer Art Stricklin picks up on that theme in this Golf.com op-ed in which he points out that the...
More on the Tiger Chasm
In this column, the Chronicle's chief golf writer has seen the Tiger Chasm that is gobbling up Texas' PGA Tour events and he does not like what he sees: If the first half of the season is any indication, the...
The next troubled Texas PGA Tour event
The Shell Houston Open recently finished a rather uninspiring 2007 edition of the event. Now, the EDS Byron Nelson Championship in Dallas -- which has also had (earlier post problems brewing) over the past several years -- is looking as...
The Tiger chasm defined
The television numbers are in on the just-completed Masters Golf Tournament. CBS Sports’ coverage of the tournament on Easter Sunday earned an average overnight household rating/share of 9.1/21 (meaning that 9.1% of households on average were tuned in at any...
The folly of the "resemble Augusta" approach
In the Chronicle's seemingly never-ending campaign to give the Shell Houston Open relevance, this Steve Campbell/Sunday Chronicle article reports that SHO officials are planning on setting up the Tournament Course at Redstone in a manner similar to the way that...
Is the Shell Houston Open entering the Tiger Chasm?
The Shell Houston Open begins playing an earlier time slot this year and, thus, is only three weeks away. In reviewing the tournament website for prospective participants, only one top 10 player in the World Rankings has committed to play...
The Tiger Chasm
The rumblings from the last week's decision to discontinue the popular International PGA Tour event at Castle Pines are still reverberating through the golf world, and Golf Digest's John Hawkins isn't pulling any punches: The death of the International last...
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