Tuesday
Mar212017
SI Players Poll: 66% Favor Players Move To March, PGA To May
As always the SI/Golf.com players poll features a nice mix of fun and provocative questions, and while there several to chew on, the drumbeat of talk about a PGA Championship move to May is building.
The players are on board...until the check out the mid-May forecast for Rochester.
Should the Players Championship be moved to March and the PGA to May?
YES: 66%
NO: 22%
Don't know: 12%
Loose lips: "That would be a much better fit." "We have to, if we want to avoid competing with the NFL."
Reader Comments (18)
As for the "survey", in that only 22 or 23 players bothered to respond to the majority of these questions not sure why anyone would give any credence whatsoever to anything coming out of it. It's also logical to assume the majority of the responses are from fringe players with little in the way of standing or gravitas.
Survey is totally bogus.
My point was that while both may have "very strict qualifying criteria" only one stipulates some PGA Tour players participate in a 36 hole qualifier a day or days after competing in one of their tour events. Also the USGA does not invite ALL former winners of the U.S. Open (the PGA includes all former champs in its event), winners of PGA Tour events since the last PGA championship, and dozens of, otherwise not qualified, "additional invitees" (the PGA had 44 of those last year).