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Originally Posted by Ashington
It's the same in football for QBs, all about RANGZ. Not so much baseball though, strangely.
Thing is, there's a huge difference between golf and any sport that has playoffs. In basketball, baseball, football, it becomes natural to focus on the playoffs because they are more important than the regular season.
Some individual sports have events that are more important than others. E.g., cycling has the grand tour, which is 3 times longer than normal events and receives more coverage. Tennis has "majors" and non-majors are basically ignored by mainstream US sports media. But the tourneys are longer and the prize pools are bigger.
None of that is really true in golf. Every PGA tourney is on a national TV network. The majors don't pay more than normal tourneys (random trivia: the three highest paying tourneys this year were each won by Tiger--two WGC events and the Players each pay more than the 4 majors) and the fields aren't appreciably different from a typical WGC event or FedEx Cup event.
Yet you have announcers talking about Tiger like his 2013 like it's a failure, even though he's a shoo-in for player of the year.
And the POTY counts a major as worth 3 times as valuable as a non-major! Winning 2 majors is the same as winning 11 regular tourneys!