{"id":894,"date":"2012-05-08T22:12:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T22:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teemoore.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2012-05-08T22:12:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T22:12:02","slug":"a-needed-renovation-for-the-players-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/golf\/894\/a-needed-renovation-for-the-players-championship","title":{"rendered":"A needed renovation for The Players Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_896\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/05\/sawgrassbanner2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-896\" class=\"size-full wp-image-896\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/05\/sawgrassbanner2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A so-called 5th major shouldn&#039;t be decided by a sudden death playoff<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My renovation is an easy and timely fix: change the playoff format for The Players Championship. Largely due to television considerations, the Players relies on an unfair sudden death playoff format whereby a single shot or hole may decide the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the playoff begins on the devilish par-three 17th where a sudden breeze knocked down Paul Goydos\u2019 iron shot in 2008 in a one-and-done anti-climatic outcome with Sergio Garcia.\u00a0 A \u201cwannabe\u201d major like the Players deserves a more fitting resolution. As in the case of the British Open and the PGA, a multi-hole aggregate score playoff is more equitable and delivers even more compelling theatre. Have it be contested over the reachable par-five 16th, the 17th and the ever scary 18th hole.<\/p>\n<p>And one more thing: start the final round an hour earlier to allow more daylight on the drama.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>photo courtesy of the PGA Tour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My renovation is an easy and timely fix: change the playoff format for The Players Championship. Largely due to television&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/golf\/894\/a-needed-renovation-for-the-players-championship\" title=\"ReadA needed renovation for The Players Championship\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251739,277563,9,4907,5975,6127,6569,6731,27552],"tags":[16261,1036836,2832,6068,455336,2236],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pga-tour","category-wisconsin-golfer","category-golf","category-oregon-golf-assoc","category-long-island-golf-assoc","category-so-cal-golf-assoc","category-azga","category-indiana-golf-assoc","category-wvga","tag-sergiogarcia","tag-pga-tour","tag-terry-moore","tag-the-players-championship","tag-sudden-death-playoff","tag-paul-goydos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/05\/sawgrassbanner2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/teemoore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}