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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We are extremely pleased that the greater Hartford region will be part of the FedEx Cup schedule with St. Paul Travelers as title sponsor. This event has a long history with the Tour and has always had outstanding support from the community.
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With the conclusion of the FedEx Cup competition at The Tour Championship the week September 10-16, we felt that the competitors could use an extra week to rest and be fully prepared for The Presidents Cup.
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What tournaments want to do, typically, is support charities in their community that need the money and charities that are impactful to their community. The better the job the tournament does for the charities, the better they are able to sell the tournament and raise money for the charity.
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That's what PGA Tour golf is all about. It's a partnership with the community to help people to raise money for charity and to do it using golf as a platform.
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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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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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We're very pleased with being able to bring the best players in the world back to this particular venue.
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There's only so many dates. Our objective for the Fall Series is for every week to have the strongest possible tournament.
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Sandy had this idea of rebuilding Harding Park, and we decided to work together on getting it rebuilt. And then it took awhile it takes awhile to do things in California. But it works for the community. And we'll see how it works for the big boys.
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Every other sport has their channel, ... That's not lost on us.
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A significant amount of time and effort went into the development of the FedEx Cup schedule to maximize the strength of our tournaments, sponsors and venues, while providing a logical flow geographically.
At the end of the day, it wasn't something we thought we should continue.
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We do like that notion that we have the deepest field in the game from A to Z, and virtually every one of those players can win. We would not want to move drastically away from that.
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It creates a nice flow in the schedule.