Need an answer to a Tiger Woods question

[2underpar]

Looking at PGAtour.com, he's listed on the final leaderboard as DNS but Mickelson, Paddy and Sergio, who also didn't play, are not. Is it because Tiger is injured?
If so, does he get last-place money?
No big deal just curious.

 

[Matt1735]

i read that because he is injured, he is officially entered, gets last place money, but that money does not count toward the season-ending money race... I might not have all that correct

 

[2underpar]

i assumed that was the deal, but i think today is the first time he has been listed on the full leaderboard. I'm not sure Dougie Ferguson has had that as a note this week.

 

[Cosmo]

From Jason Sobel's Weekly 18 on ESPN.com:

I wish I could see the look on Tiger Woods' face when he opens up the mailbox in a few days and sees a check ... from the PGA Tour ... to the tune of $53,000 ... for "playing" in the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

Granted, I'm guessing he's signed up for direct deposit by now -- unless he's cashing all of those oversized checks at the bank, Happy Gilmore-style -- but you get the idea. Even though Woods was likely some 5,000 miles away from Maui as the tournament took place, PGA Tour rules state that in events without a cut or alternate list, a qualified player who can't compete due to injury will earn last-place, unofficial money -- meaning it won't count toward the money list or other career totals. (Sergio Garcia, Phil Mickelson and Padraig Harrington will not collect, because none had an injury that prevented him from participating.)

It was because of the same rule that Tiger earned a check for last year's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and BMW Championship, too, while picking up 70th-place money in the final FedEx Cup standings.

Money for nothing? Dire Straits may have been singing about Tiger well before his time.

Sure, 53 grand may be chump change to a guy like Tiger. (Golf Digest recently estimated his earnings and endorsements total at $886,778,335 since turning pro in 1996.) But here's guessing there are some professional golfers reading right now who are crying into their morning oatmeal. Consider this: Travis Perkins, J.L. Lewis and John Daly played in 23, 16 and 17 PGA Tour events last year, respectively, and none of 'em broke the $53,000 barrier. Not for a single event, mind you, but for the entire season. Ouch.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

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[hondo]

From Jason Sobel's Weekly 18 on ESPN.com:

I wish I could see the look on Tiger Woods' face when he opens up the mailbox in a few days and sees a check ... from the PGA Tour ... to the tune of $53,000 ... for "playing" in the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

Granted, I'm guessing he's signed up for direct deposit by now -- unless he's cashing all of those oversized checks at the bank, Happy Gilmore-style -- but you get the idea. Even though Woods was likely some 5,000 miles away from Maui as the tournament took place, PGA Tour rules state that in events without a cut or alternate list, a qualified player who can't compete due to injury will earn last-place, unofficial money -- meaning it won't count toward the money list or other career totals. (Sergio Garcia, Phil Mickelson and Padraig Harrington will not collect, because none had an injury that prevented him from participating.)

It was because of the same rule that Tiger earned a check for last year's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and BMW Championship, too, while picking up 70th-place money in the final FedEx Cup standings.

Money for nothing? Dire Straits may have been singing about Tiger well before his time.

Sure, 53 grand may be chump change to a guy like Tiger. (Golf Digest recently estimated his earnings and endorsements total at $886,778,335 since turning pro in 1996.) But here's guessing there are some professional golfers reading right now who are crying into their morning oatmeal. Consider this: Travis Perkins, J.L. Lewis and John Daly played in 23, 16 and 17 PGA Tour events last year, respectively, and none of 'em broke the $53,000 barrier. Not for a single event, mind you, but for the entire season. Ouch.

Perhaps Travis Perkins, J.L. Lewis and John Daly should make more ****in' birdies.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Travis Perkins?

 

[Batman]

Daly would just blow it on chicken wings, booze and hookers.

 

[Trey Beamon]

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Awesome.

 

[hondo]

There's no big deal about this. If there is a limited-field tournament with no cut, anyone who was qualified for the tournament but was injured (and provided medical evidence) got the last-place money.

 

[Cosmo]

No, not a big deal at all. I'm just not sure everyone knew the rule, hence the original question. I wasn't aware of the rule myself.