The FedEx Cup: How much do you care?

August

Chances are if you’re visiting a golf blog, you know about, and presumably care a little about this year-old venture known as the FedEx Cup. The question is how much?

I’ll say my piece here from the press room at The Barclays at ~~Westchester~~ Ridgewood Country Club: I care more about golf at this time of summer than I did two years ago—heck, I’m here aren’t I?—so that immediately makes the FedEx Cup an upgrade. It’s not a major. It’s not the Ryder Cup. But it’s something, which immediately makes it better than nothing.

Granted, this is hardly in line with the PGA Tour marketing campaign that makes you think the FedEx Cup is golf’s version of the Stanley Cup (minus the playoff beards, of course). When the tour launched this initiative, they didn’t envision golf blogs a year into it asking if anyone cared.Â But I’ll also say the venture is young enough that it has time to mature and grow on people.

And should Tiger Woods ever get around to playing golf again, it might even gain traction.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 10:07 am by Sam Weinman. Print | Email

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