Tim Finchem
Tim Finchem
Timothy W. Finchemis the current Commissioner of golf's PGA Tour...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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The purse increases year to year will not be as steep in the next six years as they have in the last six. Retirement benefits will actually go up more steeply, but our purses . . . will flatten a little bit.
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The people who are concerned about this issue, the fans, ought to relax and know there's going to be a lot of great golf here over the years if we keep the course in good shape,
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Stature is something that we don't determine. Others determine.
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I think our job right now is to continue to build The Players and make it as good as it can be and probably work harder to connect with fans about it. Stature (as far as The Players being considered golf's fifth major) is something we don't determine; others do that.
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George was a tough competitor who, as many golfers know, was a master with the putter. George will be missed by all who walked the fairways with him, and those of us who got to know him outside the ropes.
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Good tournaments can compete and perform very nicely. And the Tour Championship doesn't do that bad, but it's too far removed. It reinforced to us that if you put something special out there, we can carry the audience with us into September. And if it's a strong enough finish, then the season becomes more important.
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I'm not quite sure what I'm going to say. We've got so many things going on. Given where we are, on the brink of going to TV (negotiations), I don't want to mislead anyone. But I want to give folks a broad sense of what we're looking at.
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The Championship Series gives us what we've wanted for a long time - a culminating end to our season.
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You want to grow. To compete effectively -- even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position -- you look at who you're competing with. And everyone you're competing with is changing to get better, sometimes dramatically.
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The mathematics are such if you're going to compete in the Cup competition, there's a very significant upside, certainly if you're a consistent top player, to perform well just like you are within a tournament structure. So that is a dynamic, and the fact that the way the point structure for this series will be structured almost dictates if you're going to perform well, you've got to play every week.
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Connecting with people, getting things done - that's what makes the travel worthwhile.
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An organization needs to be constantly refreshed.
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Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.
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There is one pressing need, we think, to help us compete, and that is the need to define our season, .. That relates to, first of all, creating a real season, which would include a year-long competition and a dramatic finish to that competition.