Hope you’ve had a good week. This is the 39th Golf Traders Newsletter, enjoy the read....
Golf News:
Twenty-five members of the Web.com Tour were awarded 2013 PGA TOUR cards today at the Web.com Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch near Dallas based on their season-ending finish on the money list. Let’s take a look at the 2012 Web.com Tour graduating Class: Pos. Player Age Country College Starts Money Wins
1 Casey Wittenberg
2 Luke Guthrie*
3 Russell Henley*
4 Luke List*
5 James Hahn*
6 Shawn Stefani*
7 Robert Streb*
8 Ben Kohles*
9 Justin Bolli
10 David Lingmerth*
11 Justin Hicks
12 Paul Haley II*
13 Cameron Percy
14 Andres Gonzales
15 Scott Gardiner*
16 Lee Williams*
17 Darron Stiles
18 Brad Fritsch*
19 Morgan Hoffmann*
Brian Stuard
21 Andrew Svoboda*
22 Nicholas Thompson
23 Alistair Presnell*
24 Doug LaBelle II
25 Jim Herman
And now for some history....as new players will commence on the PGA tour next year, let's take a moment to reflect on how it all started: Here's a bit about the History of US PGA Tour:
With an increase of revenue in the late 1960s due to expanded television coverage, a dispute arose between the touring professionals and the PGA of America on how to distribute the windfall. The tour players wanted larger purses, where the PGA desired the money to go to the general fund to help grow the game at the local level. Following the final major in July 1968 at the PGA Championship, several leading tour pros voiced their dissatisfaction with the venue and the abundance of club pros in the field. The increased friction resulted in a new entity in August, what would eventually become the PGA Tour. Tournament players formed their own organization, American Professional Golfers, Inc. (APG), independent of the PGA of America.
After several months, a compromise was reached in December: the tour players agreed to abolish the APG and form the PGA "Tournament Players Division," a fully autonomous division under the supervision of a new 10-member Tournament Policy Board. The board consisted of four tour players, three PGA of America executives, and three outside members, initially business executives.
Joseph Dey, the recently retired USGA executive director, was selected by the board as the tour's first commissioner in January 1969 and agreed to a five-year contract. He was succeeded by tour player Deane Beman in early 1974, who served for twenty years. The name officially changed to the "PGA Tour" in 1975.
In late August 1981, the PGA Tour had a marketing dispute with the PGA of America and officially changed its name to the "TPA Tour," for the "Tournament Players Association." The disputed issues were resolved within seven months and the tour's name was changed back to the "PGA Tour" in March 1982.
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David Fearns (PGA)
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