Pernice? Who is he?
Saturday November 4, 2006 | 06:42:26 pm 304 words, 1964 views
Tom Pernice, Jr. decided today to take a shot at Tiger Woods and his choosing to skip the Tour Championship. What is wrong with this guy? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!
Here is his quote:
“I think it’s a disgrace,” journeyman Tom Pernice Jr told Golf World magazine. “It’s a slap in the face to (presenting sponsor) Coca-Cola and the tour. He wouldn’t make the money he makes if it wasn’t for the PGA Tour.
“At some point, there is a credibility as to what’s inside you as a person. There is a responsibility and an obligation to the people who helped make you who you are.”
If Tom’s caddie wasn’t wearing his name on his back, no one at the Tour Championship would know who he is. This year alone, he only made 60% of the cuts in 32 events and still is 30th on the money list at a bit over $2M bucks. If we do the math and recall that purses on Tour have increased by a magnitude of 300% since Tiger has been playing as a professional, that means that Tiger is personally responsible for about $1.2M of Tom’s earnings. Career wise he barely has made 50% of the cuts in Tournaments he has played in.
He has won only twice in his 23 year career. So, it isn’t likely we will be seeing Jr. in the Hall of fame. Let’s put it another way, Tiger has earned more in 2006 in Tour prize money than Jr. has won in his entire career. And thanks to Tiger, Jr. is at 63 in career earnings. Jack Nicklaus earned a paltry $5M for his efforts in becoming the “greatest.”
The PGA Tour didn’t “make Tiger who he is,” Tiger did. He starts up again next week by going to China. So shut the hell up Jr.
Comments, Pingbacks:
Comment from: RonMon [Visitor] · http://www.travelgolf.com/blogs/ron.mon
Now, see?!?! If you use the same type of attitude with the thugs on the public courses that you use with Pernice, they'll melt into their soiled underwear and crawl meekly away.
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11/04/06 @ 22:44
Comment from: Oliver Sudden [Visitor]
Tiger Woods is a smart guy and is surrounded by other smart people. He knows that not showing up at the Tour Championship hurts the tour, so why did he do it ? My theory is he is sick and tired of events like the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup. And this extra week trip to Ireland this year was the last straw. He mentioned the trip as a reason he was not playing this week. He was sending Finchem and the tour a message. What rankles him about these team events is that empty suits are making millions while the players get nada. It is not that he is greedy, if ALL the money went to charity it would be different. Also, this "you have to play for your country" is just a way of intimidating professional athletes into playing for free, in baseball, basketball, golf, and other sports.
As far as journeyman like Tom Pernice, he should keep his mouth shut. The reality is, if Tiger wasn't around the PGA Tour could be in some real trouble as are several other tours.The truth is Tiger should just automatically get half of every purse if you wanted to do it based on value added. All these guys have got rich because of Tiger even though they don't deserve it.
As far as journeyman like Tom Pernice, he should keep his mouth shut. The reality is, if Tiger wasn't around the PGA Tour could be in some real trouble as are several other tours.The truth is Tiger should just automatically get half of every purse if you wanted to do it based on value added. All these guys have got rich because of Tiger even though they don't deserve it.
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11/05/06 @ 22:16
Comment from: Evil Hater [Visitor]
Pernice is the greatest golfer in history. He just has trouble finishing.
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11/06/06 @ 08:09
Comment from: sid [Visitor]
why is Tom Pernice complaining? Doesn't it leave more money for him to get.
After all The Tour Championship is essentially a high-stakes giveaway
[meaning there's simply no motivation ] that he would never think of
taking a pass on.
"Instead of bemoaning their absence [Tiger and Phil ] Finchem should be
asking questions of the prize funds distribution which has resulted
in numerous players becoming multi-millionaires despite rarely being in
contention let alone winning".
After all The Tour Championship is essentially a high-stakes giveaway
[meaning there's simply no motivation ] that he would never think of
taking a pass on.
"Instead of bemoaning their absence [Tiger and Phil ] Finchem should be
asking questions of the prize funds distribution which has resulted
in numerous players becoming multi-millionaires despite rarely being in
contention let alone winning".
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11/06/06 @ 12:42
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
Hey, Maxwell, who are you? Let me help you out: you're some little blogger who is, by an enormous measure, neither as well renowned nor as wealthy as Pernice. Yet, what d'ya know? You profess your beliefs unabashedly, regardless of how unfounded they may be.
This is America, Max, and, thank God, one's right to render an opinion is not commensurate with the proportions of his wallet or the degree of his fame. Unfortunately, though, because of people with your attitude, rich fools' words hold more sway than those of poor sages.
This is America, Max, and, thank God, one's right to render an opinion is not commensurate with the proportions of his wallet or the degree of his fame. Unfortunately, though, because of people with your attitude, rich fools' words hold more sway than those of poor sages.
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11/07/06 @ 00:17
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
Maxwell, The last time I looked, the first amendment had not been repealed for all the PGA pros not in the top ten in world rankings.
Tom Pernice is a true journeyman pro. With hard work and dedication, he turned a modest amount of natural ability into a successful pro career.
It is guys like Pernice, second-tier pros who make up a full field every week, who put a lot of pressure on the superstars to maintain their games, who are the backbone of the PGA tour.
The top three in any PGA event take down more than 35% of the total prize money. Any more than that would probably shorten the fields.
Several people are complaining that events like the Tour Championship and the Mercedes are "giveaways." Mor eevents would become similar if more pros became frozen out. There would be a lot fewer first-time winners.
Have you ever watched a thoroughbred stakes race with a "short" field? Not very exciting, is it? The PGA tour would become extinct if the money is not spread around as it is today. If your want to have a game , you've got to have players.
Tom Pernice is a true journeyman pro. With hard work and dedication, he turned a modest amount of natural ability into a successful pro career.
It is guys like Pernice, second-tier pros who make up a full field every week, who put a lot of pressure on the superstars to maintain their games, who are the backbone of the PGA tour.
The top three in any PGA event take down more than 35% of the total prize money. Any more than that would probably shorten the fields.
Several people are complaining that events like the Tour Championship and the Mercedes are "giveaways." Mor eevents would become similar if more pros became frozen out. There would be a lot fewer first-time winners.
Have you ever watched a thoroughbred stakes race with a "short" field? Not very exciting, is it? The PGA tour would become extinct if the money is not spread around as it is today. If your want to have a game , you've got to have players.
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11/07/06 @ 08:13
Comment from: CB Maxwell [Visitor]
Hey commentors: I was neither speaking to Pernices's "right" to exercise his First Amendment, nor his nice stash of cash. I was commenting on what I believed was a serious personal slight to Tiger that is indeed "unfounded." I am fairly certain y'all didn't turn on the Tour Championship and say, "boy, wonder how that Pernice fella is doing?" We don't have to go far back to remember it was Pernice that tried to "call" Tiger on a driver being within limits (it was), so it just seems to me that Pernice was trying to kiss a little PGA rear end, and get a headline. As for the "rich fools, poor sages" tagline, I liked it. By that I can only presume you agree with me that Pernice is a "fool." And by the way, did you happen to catch Finchem's comments about Tiger not playing on Sunday? He was not in any way critical of Tiger and had discussed his schedule for next year to be sure he would be there. And what is up with the "little blogger?" Does that make you a "little commentor?" Lighten up...this is supposed to be entertainment, not the floor of the Senate!
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11/07/06 @ 11:00
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
No, Max, you didn't question his First Amendment rights, but you did imply that his opinions are somehow irrelevant because he isn't a member of golf's aristocracy. Listen, Bubbles has a ten megaton bank account and fame to match, but I doubt that she could offer very much wise counsel.
Oh, the rich fools I was thinking of are the members of the Hollywood left, a set whose words are no doubt valued by a majority of your fellow golf bloggers.
Oh, the rich fools I was thinking of are the members of the Hollywood left, a set whose words are no doubt valued by a majority of your fellow golf bloggers.
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11/07/06 @ 12:06
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
Maxwell, When you finished your blog by advising Tom Pernice to "shut the hell up, Junior," it sure sounded like you're questioning his right to express his opinion.
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11/07/06 @ 14:44
Comment from: CB Maxwell [Visitor]
In the immortal words of a fellow commentor, the First Amendment gives us the right to speak, but not necessarily be listened to. And please, I have little value for the Hollywood left.
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11/07/06 @ 15:12
Comment from: Booger [Visitor]
"So shut the hell up, Junior" is an exercise of free speech. Telling someone
to "shut up" is understood as a way of saying "i don't agree with you" in a
semi-humorous fashion. It isn't "hate", or any other kindergarden emotion
taught by communists in the education system to a lost generation of American
youth who are not only logically illiterate, but incapable of "tolerating" an
opinion that they don't agree with.
Anybody concerned with CB's writing style for comedic effect needs to take a
long look at the degenerate bolshevik that they see in the mirror, and ask
"how did this happen to me?"
to "shut up" is understood as a way of saying "i don't agree with you" in a
semi-humorous fashion. It isn't "hate", or any other kindergarden emotion
taught by communists in the education system to a lost generation of American
youth who are not only logically illiterate, but incapable of "tolerating" an
opinion that they don't agree with.
Anybody concerned with CB's writing style for comedic effect needs to take a
long look at the degenerate bolshevik that they see in the mirror, and ask
"how did this happen to me?"
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11/08/06 @ 09:59
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
Booger,
I know well what you're talking about, however, I can also exercise MY freedom of speech. Moreover, I took issue with an IDEA implicit in Maxwell's musings. To wit: the idea that not possessing elite status renders your opinion irrelevant. Stupidity, not anonymity, means irrelevancy.
I know well what you're talking about, however, I can also exercise MY freedom of speech. Moreover, I took issue with an IDEA implicit in Maxwell's musings. To wit: the idea that not possessing elite status renders your opinion irrelevant. Stupidity, not anonymity, means irrelevancy.
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11/08/06 @ 13:33
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
Booger, I read through these posts thoroughly, and I saw no reference to "hate' speech by anyone. And what's all this about communists and degenerate bolsheviks? Your opinion that telling someone to "shut the hell up" is just humorous disagreement is one that I've never heard before. Would Kofi Annan think it humorous if John Bolton told him to "shut the hell up?"
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11/08/06 @ 14:30
Comment from: CB Maxwell [Visitor]
Kofi Annan? Please, dear commentors, can we stay on point here? First Amendment rights, was I deeming in saying "shut up?" Is Pernice irrelevant because he was just plain wrong and challenging Tiger's character was also out of line whether he is an elite player or not? I think it is fair to say, we watch for Nicklaus or Watson's comments on Phil's US OPEN collapse with a bit more credibility than a journeyman like Pernice commenting on Tiger. I just thought he was grandstanding and his credentials simply don't hold up. FLOG THE BLOGGER!
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11/08/06 @ 18:51
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
Max, You liked that Kofi reference, did you? In my opinion, if a golfer is in the top thirty in money winnings on the most elite tour in the world, and is therefore a competitor in the Tour Championship, he has already earned the right and privilege to express his opinion on Tiger's snubbing(and that's what it was)of the Tour finale. A rookie on the Hooter's tour may not get the same respect.
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11/08/06 @ 19:18
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
Well, Maxi baby, I'm glad you vindicated my assessment of you with your acknowledgement that you believe his "credentials simply don't hold up." As I said before, and this is getting redundant, you somehow believe that mastery of some frivolous pursuit confers wisdom upon an individual. This is the kind of thinking that says that Cher's political opinions should carry weight.
Oh, and Maxi baby, I wouldn't harp to much on credentials. After all, people in glass houses . . .. When you make it to Sports Illustrated and appear on ESPN, maybe we'll listen to you.
I ask again, who are you?
Oh, and Maxi baby, I wouldn't harp to much on credentials. After all, people in glass houses . . .. When you make it to Sports Illustrated and appear on ESPN, maybe we'll listen to you.
I ask again, who are you?
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11/09/06 @ 04:50
Comment from: Seve [Visitor]
Alex-- Sounds like you and Smails woke up on the wrong side of the aisle yesterday morning. So what is Pernice, a journeyman pro, who has eaked out a comfortable living, making due with only his marginal talent, or is he the elite pro who stands on equal footing with the greats of the game?
The truth is Pernice is neither. He was a two-time college all american who anchored one of the greatest college golf teams of all time(1981 UCLA Bruins). Pernice was tapped to be one of the next great players upon leaving school, he had as much natural ability as anyone back then. His career has actually been a dissapointment, oh sure he has made a ton of money, but who hasn't in this age of increased prize money, endorsement deals, and free cash giveaways, such as the Tour Championship. I think we have established that he has a right to voice his opinion regarding Tiger just as we are free to call him an ungrateful knucklehead. We should probably all do what I am quite certain Tiger is doing and that is to completely ignore him.
The truth is Pernice is neither. He was a two-time college all american who anchored one of the greatest college golf teams of all time(1981 UCLA Bruins). Pernice was tapped to be one of the next great players upon leaving school, he had as much natural ability as anyone back then. His career has actually been a dissapointment, oh sure he has made a ton of money, but who hasn't in this age of increased prize money, endorsement deals, and free cash giveaways, such as the Tour Championship. I think we have established that he has a right to voice his opinion regarding Tiger just as we are free to call him an ungrateful knucklehead. We should probably all do what I am quite certain Tiger is doing and that is to completely ignore him.
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11/09/06 @ 09:20
Comment from: tasha [Visitor]
Perhaps Tom Pernice Jr. can fulfill his potential if he would stop fretting about other players. Certainly he is free to express his opinions and personally attack other players. Each time he does that he seems to get mired in negative energy which may affect him on the golf course. If he says what he says publicly, imagine what really goes on in his head all the time while Tiger keeps winning and winning or withdrawing etc.
With Tiger withdrawing, Pernice Jr. and the other players had a chance to win. Each time Tiger shows up and plays as he's been playing, there are grumblings that the other guys are all playing for second place.
So, when Vijay wants something negative said about Tiger, Pernice Jr. has become his mouthpiece. I'm sure when Pernice, Jr. was an All American with so much shining potential, the last thing he wanted to become was a resentful and less than stellar PGA player. It's really sad.
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11/09/06 @ 10:02
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
Woods had been absent from the tour for four weeks prior to the first round of the Tour Championship. That would seem like adequate time for R&R for anyone. Tiger's reason is his own, but there can be no doubt that he chose to snub the PGA and the Tour. Tom Pernice commenting on the tour's number one player 's snub doesn't change a thing. but it seems to have elicited a lot of outraged elitism on the part of some posters here. To say that Vijay and Pernice are conspiring to knock Tiger is laughable.
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