Golf Week
I love match play. It is the preferred method of gambling for golfers everywhere.
It is the purest form of golf and it stinks for television and radio.
The entertainment value of two lesser known players pitted against each other holds little allure for golf fans. I wish I was wrong, heck I was a lesser-known player than the lesser-known players that I am talking about.
But it's true and we boyh know it.
That is why we only have one match-play tournament a year on the PGA Tour and it is an elite field.
The PGA of America figured that out in 1958 when the PGA Championship went from match play to a 72-hole medal play competition before most of us were born.
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