True.
Personally, my two cents worth opinion is, anyone can make decision for themselves and no one else should tell them what to do because no one else but the person making the decision will bear the consequences from that decision.
What I don’t agree is, while these guys keeping their status on the PGA Tour and seeking side fortune from other places which might eventually damage the main events which been feeding them all these years.
Ever heard of diluting the market ? Over diluting will result in lost of interest of the fans.
Simple as when every year or multiple times there be “new and improved” equipment, which basically killed off the market.
A lot of us golfers were looking forward to the “new” equipment at their 3-4 years cycle, stretching our neck so to speak and saving up the necessary funding for the new toy. When TaylorMade started saturating the market with their rapid release of equipment, it got them ahead for a short term but also created the none-urgency to purchase the new release, since there be another supposed to be a better one coming right around the corner.
We have the two major golf governing body now, The R&A and the PGA, do we really need another one ? R&A by virtues is the origin of the competition. The PGA is the one which expanded the sports and have the players and the funding to make the sports as popular as it is today.
What will the 3rd Tour do ? Besides diluting the share of the interests from the fans and sportsman alike ? Are they going to change the rules of the game ? Approach it in a none-traditional way ?
I’m totally okay with golfers making their decision either way, however, they can’t be hanging on to the status on the PGA while promoting a unnecessary alternative.
I can understand the concern of Rory , especially after his multiple injury which may have cost him his longevity to stay at the top level of this game. Guys with smaller physical frame will pay a dear price to compete with others with larger frame. Like high REV a smaller engine ( or turbo charging it ), it will not last as long as the competitors with larger displacement. So he might have thoughts of making as much as he could right now for his later years.
It is fine, just not fair to keep his playing status which could have gone to the next golfer in line who wanted a shot at the Tour.
I’d say except for their exemption status, injury, past winning…etc. they should go through Monday qualifying just like the next guy if they decided to play more than their exemption.
Exemption, can not be taken away from them, because they had earned it. Everything else, should fall into places of the rules and the common sense.