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 !!!!!
