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Tiger Woods landed atop this season's money list with $10,628,024. Not that it really mattered all that much. "The money list doesn't really interest me all that much, only because if you play more, you have a better chance of making more money," he said. "Obviously I don't play that many events, and I'm concentrating on bigger events." Woods still considered this his best year since he won 10 times in 1999.
-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

When Tiger Woods next tees it up on the PGA Tour, early in 2006, he will be playing in his 200th event. With 46 victories thus far, his winning percentage is an unmatched .231, but for those who expect even better, there is good news. Woods next month will turn 30, closer to when pro golfers supposedly reach their prime.
-- Boston Globe

In the days after commissioner Tim Finchem announced last week the outline of sweeping changes to the PGA Tour schedule beginning in 2007, it became obvious that if a tournament is not among those in the FedEx Cup points chase, it will not have much relevance. Finchem did his best to put a nice spin on things, saying tournaments that follow the Tour Championship in will still count on the money list, will have an impact on the world rankings and playing privileges and Masters invitations and such. But the truth is, many, if not most, of the big-name players will skip those tournaments.
-- St. Petersburg Times

Tiger Woods admitted that the FedEx Cup will mean a lot of golf, possibly six or seven straight weeks leading up to the Tour Championship, but "after that you're pretty much done, which is great because our schedule goes on for so long."
-- St. Petersburg Times

There's already fallout from the 2007 PGA Tour schedule, even though the entire schedule hasn't been announced yet. The Presidents Cup has been moved back a week, to Sept. 27-30, allowing an extra week between the Tour Championship and the biennial team match-play event. The 2007 Tour Championship is the last tournament of the FedEx Cup, a season-long points race, and the final event of a four-event Championship Series.
-- Los Angeles Times

Spain's Sergio Garcia embraced the FedEx Cup concept, which will conclude with a series of four big-money, big-points events, because when it's over "it gives me a chance to return to Europe and support my tour there, and more than anything, get some nice rest before the next season."
-- St. Petersburg Times

Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem offered some reasons why the Western Open probably will be rotated out of Chicago every other year beginning in 2007. The Western is expected to be part of the new season-ending Championship Series, with the tournament moving from July to September. Cog Hill would remain the venue when the Western is played in Chicago, but sources said the PGA Tour wants to play at other top courses in the Midwest, such as Hazeltine in Minneapolis.
-- Chicago Tribune

Maybe he feels confident that he'll get the Tampa Bay Devil Rays managing job, or perhaps reality set in, but in either case, Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt was only around for half the action at a qualifying site in Orlando, Fla. He shot 73-75, then failed to hand in a card, so he was out of contention.
-- Boston Globe

The USGA now says the previously approved distance measure devices (range finders) aren't going to be used at its championships or qualifying rounds in 2006, but that state and local golf associations, tournament committees and individual courses are free to allow them under the new local rule that permits their use.
-- Los Angeles Times

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