Just Give Us Match Play: The PGA Tour Officially Changed The Tour Championship To A Regular 72-Hole Stroke Play Tournament, Like Every Other Event

Yeah, this sucks. I don't know how you decide to change the Tour Championship to, well, another regular, boring ass tournament. Match play was sitting right there. I know, I know. Match play means less golf on TV but it's more entertaining especially for a championship. Now we're getting a 72-hole stroke play tournament? Cool, we watch that every week. That's my problem with it.

I get that it's the top-30 and you have to make it to East Lake. But the whole feeling of playing for a Tour Championship doesn't feel right if it's just another tournament. Plus, it's America. You know what America loves? Brackets. It doesn't matter what sport, what contest, anything, people see a bracket and they know it's a playoff feel. 

It's not a secret that the PGA Tour is stuck ending its season going up against football. It's why they moved the schedule around to try and not fight it as much. Throwing in another stroke play tournament over the course of 4 days doesn't move the needle. It's what we know, it's what we see all the time. I don't care if it's traditional match play or stroke play, give us a bracket. At least they dropped the starting stroke thing because that sucked. It didn't work. You had to remember who started at -8 and what they actually shot over four rounds. 

I actually do think there needs to be some sort of advantage for the guy leading FedEx Cup Points after 4 months. It's the way every other sport works. You get homecourt advantage or a bye or something for being the best in the regular season. Another reason why brackets work. You can still send the top-30 and give the top-2 seeds a bye. All I know is this does nothing, just another tournament worth a ton of money.