Playoffs passing of Rory Mcilroy is not a problem that needs the solution

FedEx Cup’s Playoff starts this week, and, as you may have heard, the largest PGA Tour star, Rory Mcilroy, Chose not to pass a week At the beginning of August in Memfis in the St. Championship. Jude FedEx.

Mcilroy telegraph this decision last fall in an interview with Telegraph. He has won three times this season, including Masters, and sits at No.2 in the FedEx Cup rankings, so his place in the tournament is all but secured. In short, Mcilroy, who has earned enough money for some lives by playing Golf – including only $ 70 million in career profits at FedEx Cup’s Play off -et – won the right not to play this week. Tiger Woods did the same in 2007.

But as Normally is the case with mcilroyHis decision has caused a riot.

In one interview Golfweek’s SchupakPeter Malnati hinted that PGA Tour can come in a way to close the gap that allows players like Mcilroy to pass the events of the Play off with few consequences. He did not elaborate, but the idea of a “Rory rule” is at least being violated.

Malnati should also be emphasized, it is also not in memory because he failed to qualify, he is speaking from the perspective of a PGA Tour member and a player on the PGA Tour policies board. Malnat’s goal is to help the tournament continue cementing the legitimacy of FedEx Cup’s playing as a significant event, and enjoying FedEx, which not only sponsorizes this week’s event, but the entire Play off race and season competition. If you want to keep the sponsors happy, it is probably useful if the biggest active sport of sport does not ignore their tour.

But the biggest PGA Tour issue is not with Mcilroy passing through the memory. That is, the Play off system, which has been constantly torn and changed, still does not have any meaning outside the dollars added to the bank accounts in late August. Can they tweak the format further so that the points can be reset and everyone starts the PLAY off -zero, thus forcing participation? They may try, but if they do it, they risk losing someone like Mcilroy, who completed T68 in Memfis last year, for the two events left in Play off if he has a bad week. Not having all the best players in East Lake seems like a goal worth avoiding. You also get into the ascending area of attempt to force players who are supposed to be independent contractors to play certain events, and we saw how it went during the first year of the signature model (if you will remember, Mcilroy bypassed more of those events as it should have been).

I would pretend that what the tournament may be “losing” by passing Mcilroy to pass on a sweaty journey to Memfis is much less than what he has given to the tour this year and what is likely to bring in the future. He overlooked Memorial and RBC Heritage, where, like Memfis, all other senior players appeared. But he withdrew her to Houston, New Orleans in Zurich Classic and RBC Canadian Open. The benefit he brings in those events appear in the eye of the eye, TV estimates, purchased tickets, etc. In total, it is a help that is difficult to determine.

If you look at the biggest golf view outside the PGA Tour, Mcilroy’s remaining schedule after the Tour champion includes Irish Open, BMW PGA Championship, The India Championship, DP World Tour Championship and Australian Open, along with Ryder Cup.

like My colleague Sean Zak wroteMcilroy spoke to be a “Global” player and pursued those promises by building a global schedule. Mcilroy bypassing Memfis but playing in the markets-in PGA Tour and worldwide-that do not normally prove his caliber stars is a good trade for the sport as a whole.

After all, Mcilroy’s decision does not require order. This is not a void that needs closure to prevent the entire Karada of the Play Off to be destroyed at the top of itself. After all, it’s just the spoils of being an elite player with priority of narrowing out of money.

Mcilroy is one of the rare players – because of his foot and career achievements – which has the ability to spend an event with a $ 20 million bag and not mind to do so. Note how all the other 70 leading players are in Memfis, including Scottie Scheffler. The stars are not all The passage. Mcilroy has not opened a Pandora box that the tournament should be closed. He won the right, through his play for the last six months and 16 years, to pass the event. It’s no different from a good week for the best seeds in other sports.

Rory Mcilroy should play with a set of different rules because of who it is and what brings to the table. He created the “gap” being Rory Mcilroy. This will be difficult for 99.9% of the tournament to try and use, and does not require a rule to close it.