ROAD TO DUBAI = FEDEX CUP AND THEN SOME!

Cobra · **Posted:** November 8th, 2008, 10:27 am

nuhips wrote:

Debate any number of candidates for golf story of the year, but when it comes to non-story of the year, it's a landslide. It's this ongoing saga of American PGA Tour members joining the European Tour. But there are laughable slices to the story, such as the one circulating out of Spain in which Sergio Garcia boasted that he had "recruited" Camilo Villegas and Anthony Kim. Garcia supposedly explained the benefits of the European Tour to his colleagues from Colombia and the US, and pretty much sold them on it. Garcia an ambassador for the European Tour? What next, NFL linemen pushing yogurt and salads? With Garcia, we're talking about a guy who played as many times in Florida (four) as he did in Europe in 2008, a guy whose pure American PGA Tour events numbered 12 in 2008, twice as many as his pure European PGA Tour stops. Heck, he maintained European Tour membership thanks only to four major championships (three in the US), three World Golf Championships (all in the US), and three money grabs in Asia (China, Qatar, Dubai). We presume what Garcia loves about European Tour membership and what he preached to Villegas and Kim can be summed up in two words: "Appearance fees." That's the deciding factor that will get Villegas and Kim to play more European events, for sure, and it will attract guys such as Aussie Robert Allenby, who has cashed in beyond his wildest dreams in the US, even if he hasn't won in seven years.

Maybe he has figured out the key to this !!!!! :lol:

nuhips · **Posted:** November 8th, 2008, 8:00 pm

Has always been a key factor in getting players over there.

Cobra · **Posted:** November 8th, 2008, 8:47 pm

IMO,,, not really sure its him !!!!!!

nuhips · **Posted:** November 14th, 2008, 6:28 pm

So what happened in a matter of just two weeks that Phil Mickelson went from going to join the European Tour to in this story from Colin Pereira in PA Sport which Mickelson said he wasn't joining the European Tour in 2008? Then rumors started flying around the Volvo Masters that Mickelson was looking for appearance money from the folks that run the Open de France, which just happen to be the week before the Barclays Scottish Open. In looking at it, Mickelson could of played in three straight events in July, the French Open, the Barclays Scottish Open and the British Open. But in contacting officials of the French Open they wouldn't speak about Mickelson but said that they don't give appearance money period. Also during the week other rumors surfaced that put the pieces together in all of this. Seems that the folks at Barclays weren't very happy that Mickelson was playing in a competing banks golf tournament. Mickelson countered saying that he had made the commitment and that he was the defending champion. So that was another strike against Mickelson, because he won't be able to play in the HSBC Champions in November of 2009. But the killer blow was not getting an agreement together for the Barclays Singapore Open on the European Tour circuit.

Cobra · **Posted:** November 14th, 2008, 8:58 pm

IMO,, Phil doesnt sound to sure about what he wants to do !!!!

nuhips · **Posted:** November 14th, 2008, 10:03 pm

Ye$ he i$ $ure of what he want$

Cobra · **Posted:** November 14th, 2008, 11:59 pm

He didnt sign,,, !!!!!!

nuhips · **Posted:** November 15th, 2008, 3:56 pm

Becau$e the French didn't come through with what he wanted$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Cobra · **Posted:** November 15th, 2008, 6:13 pm

More to it than that,,,, !!!!

nuhips · **Posted:** November 15th, 2008, 6:47 pm

They did say he wanted to defend a title during that time period

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