by Glenn
It's time to bring down the curtain on Chris Baldwin's article. While he prattles on about what golf is missing, he competely neglects all the good works the PGA Tour provides charities. Can any other major league sport/industry exceed generosity of the tour. The world of sports has been coarsened enough. Chris, leave golf alone and don't let the door hit you in the backside on your way out.

by Pat
Chris,
Take me off your mailing list...and grow up. Your frat boy b.s. belongs in a wrestling rag.

by Mel Monahan
As dull and boring as you feel the PGA is; your articles are increasingly the same!!!!!!!

by Robert
Chris:
For all of us who appreciate the class and respect the PGA TOUR professional has for the game (and most all playing professionals), please know that a PGA professional has probably played a significant role in their development as a player and person. In fact, these same PGA professionals serve as role models to many golfers at all facilities.
And yes Chris, that is the same PGA of America that conducts a GREAT MAJOR each year, and the best CUP TEAM matches on the planet.

by bill porteous
I really do wonder if you Americans understand what golf is all about. You are so commercialised in the game and in your tv coverage that you completely miss the whole point of the game as it has been played for centuries. Stop trying to Americanise the game and play it in the spirit in which it was developed. When I was learning the game forty years ago I was playing with a young guy who thought it was "neat" to hit it as far as possible and to throw his club if it didn't go where he wanted it. An old Scottish pro was playing with us and his respose was to go nose to nose with this cretin and say "see here, young man, golf is a game for gentlemen, if you can't behave like one, don't play the bloody game". Stop comparing golf to football (your version), baseball, ice hockey, etc., and ask yourself why this wonderful game has managed to survive for around five centuries. And while you;'re at it , get some decent commentators who can do more than spout statistics. Just listen to Peter Allis for five minutes and you'll get the message.

by David jones
The TV coverage of the PGA was "mediocre at best" in my opinion. The actual amount of time spent showing golfers as opposed to "shorts" about various topics was slim....at least until the leading golfers appeared on the fairways.
The preoccupation with Tiger Woods gets a bit much. The guy was well behind the leaders for the first 2 rounds and yet we were inundated with coverage about him. There are OTHER golfers out there too.

by Mike
Are you nuts Chris? After reading read your sordid account about how the PGA is needing a loud mouth spoiled brat like TO, you have convinced me you are several kernels short of a full ear. Apparently your goal is to spark comments - which it has. I do not want to believe you are this crazy, or you have never played the game.
Dominance of the network coverage of this knuckle-dragging, mentally unstable thug Owens shows us how hungry the media is for a story. They waste their time on brats like TO and "Latrine" Sprewell crying the blues because the are not making a gazillion dollars that normal people would die to have a fraction of. Or, their kindergarten genetics kick in and they pout because "They won't give me the ball!!"
NEWS FLASH - Get a life you bunch of crybabies. Golf is, and always be a gentleman's game and it does not need loudmouth morons like that anywhere near it!

by Ivory Rubin
Mike, I agree with you that Chris is basically attempting to generate responses that have a spark to them. And, so are you. But, your comment describing Terrell Owens as "a knuckle-dragging" mentally unstable thug is way over the top. I'm a very stable gentleman of African decent and I find it offensive when someone uses inappropriate racial descriptors to highlight behavior that does not meet their approval. I think that T.O. is an absolute ASS and should be traded; but that doesn't give you, or anyone, the OK to submit racially insensitive statements in a public forum. Describe the behavior, don't characterize it.

by Pat
Are you kidding Ivory??? My pink skinned relatives all evolved from knuckle-dragging Neanderthals. At this point in time, if you behave like one, it has to be by choice...a marketing trick to appeal to the most basic in us. Live, learn, evolve..play golf. And for God's sake, think before playing the race card. It will lose it's value if you don't think before you use it.

by Bill Mazejko
I play golf from the positive view that it is a Gentlemen's Game.
Please remove me from your e-mail list.
I grew up reading the sports pages when more commentary was spent about how well the game was played and what the players did well to win.
Do I really want to be obsessed with the character defects of the players?
To me, the prize and the class and style in which it was won on the playing field is all that really matters.
Please remove me from your e-mail list...as too negative...(this is my third request).