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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."

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Don't forget the Olympics as well. Monthly majors March to July then August vacant then the fx cup is an obvious fit. The USGA and the PGA would have to work together to select courses and weather sensibly over the years.
And how about the discrepancy between PGA of America events and USGA events in the poll...not surprising.
03.22.2017 | Unregistered CommenterGreenwichGolfer
Greenwich - not surprising at all that pampered players would not prefer an organization that actually makes many of them qualify to play in their championship
@Truth, both events have very strict qualifying criteria, what's your point?

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.
03.22.2017 | Unregistered Commenter@GSQ
GSQ - agree on the "bogusity" of the survey. Also don't remember the question pitting the USGA and the PGA of Smerica against each other being asked before.

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).
The question pertains to who runs a better event Monday to Sunday, not how hard it is to get there. I don't think your perceived bias exists.
03.22.2017 | Unregistered Commenter@GSQ
US Open better history...PGA Champ better event as of late No real disputing that.
20 under par in a major? Awesome challenge there.
03.22.2017 | Unregistered Commenterrgw
@GSQ - I do
What's funny is all these hackers trying to tell the PGAA how to run their business. Funny stuff.
03.22.2017 | Unregistered CommenterCan't Figure
I was under the impression SI gets pretty good participation from this, more in the 60-80 player range than the 20s. I'd like to think they wouldn't publish a poll with a field of 20 respondents.
03.22.2017 | Unregistered CommenterJohn
@John -- 4% appears so often it implies a single vote which further implies 23 to 25 respondents.
03.22.2017 | Unregistered Commentercipherin'
NFL? Isn't the PGA in August and the NFL starts in September?
03.22.2017 | Unregistered CommenterThe O
It states in the article that 50 players participated.
The tour players don't like the US Open because the blue blazer guys are so stuck up. Fact.
03.22.2017 | Unregistered CommenterSilly Bodkins
Combine the last two years and maybe 50 picked up piece of paper the survey was printed on. 50 did not participate in 2017, not even close.a
03.22.2017 | Unregistered CommenterRazorback
@GSQ - see that! Silly says it's a "fact" that PGA Tour players have a bias against the USGA
Yeah I see that. Yet again, in no way does this support your position that there's a bias against the USGA because the US Open is hard to get into.
03.23.2017 | Unregistered Commenter@GSQ

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