Mickelson withdraws from the BMW Championship

PGATOUR.COM ^ | 9/4/07

[1Old Pro]

Interesting, I just wish he would clarify just what the "non-message" message is. From what I understand the tour "fathers" just keep cramming in more and more tourneys and the players have a more difficult time balancing these with family and business.

[TommyDale]

The PGA commissioner promised Phil that they would work with him if he would go along with them. Then they reneged and failed to keep their committment. Mickelson is doing the right thing for his family and himself.

[showme_the_Glory]

I’m a lefty, I’ll play for him.

[vietvet67]

I usually shoot in the 70s. Any hotter and I stay home. :-)

[advertising guy]

lmao..........I’m in Phoenix..........played yesterday in 110 weather

[Dixie Yooper]

Phil wanted to get his prize money for the final championship standings in cash when the rest of the entire field is playing for annuities. The champion gets a 10 million dollar annuity. In other words, Phil asked for something he already knew he wasn’t going to get.

[ghost of nixon]

After grinding out a win in a tournament that finished late Monday afternoon, it is good strategy for Phil to sit the next tournament out. Get some rest, fine tune his game, and get ready for a shootout in Atlanta where, if he finishes that tournament ahead of Tiger, he has a good shot at winning this FEDEX thingy.

[Lou L]

I’m growing to like the Fedex Cup format, but it does seem like an excessive amount of tournaments so late in the season. Perhaps they could abbreviate by one week.

[TommyDale]

Phil was very clear and concise and stated publicly that he had his kids starting school, a soccer game to attend and was promised considerations by the commissioner. He has some good reasons. If the commissioner had given a verbal committment, the least they could do is live up to it.

[1Old Pro]

If the top 2-3 don’t attend all the Fed-Ex Cup playoffs it will make it less interesting.

[lormand]

"One day after winning the Deutsche Bank Championship and taking the lead in the FedExCup points standings..."

One has to almost read the entire article until you find out what the sport actually is.

[1Old Pro]

"Phil wanted to get his prize money for the final championship standings in cash"

Really, can you reference that story?

[TommyDale]

The complaint is that there are too many tournaments now. No one makes a big deal of it when Tiger Woods doesn’t compete, so why make a big deal of Phil Mickelson not playing?

[1Old Pro]

No one makes a big deal of it when Tiger Woods doesn’t compete,

The sponsors do, tiger is a huge draw.

[TommyDale]

Does he get fined? Should Phil Mickelson be fined? If they are meeting their minimum requirements, do they owe the game every single weekend out of their lives? I think not.

[Rummyfan]

I usually shoot in the 70s... then I make the turn.

[Red Badger]

My bowling score would make a great golf score.............

[burroak]

That all sounds good except he busted Tiger’s chops for not playing in the first of the four qualifiers.

[Rummyfan]

Tiger skipped the first tournament of this new playoff system, at Westchester....

Now Mickelson is skipping the third leg at Cog Hill...

Truthfully, elites like Tiger and Phil rarely play four weeks in a row - they don't have to like the journeymen merely trying to pick up an elusive win or simply secure their status for next year. Between the World Series of Golf at Firestone the week prior to the PGA, the PGA itself, the Fed Ex playoff system , and the President's Cup, these guys are saying enough!

Now it's just golf so how can they be exhausted? Nevertheless that's how these players view their job, and what really matters to them is the majors - Master's, US and British Opens, and the PGA, not this made-up playoff system.

[Doomonyou]

My bowling score would make a great golf score.............

70 or 300?