Any time players have an issue or concern like this, we take a look at it. It's really not an issue from our standpoint. |
In order to provide the tournament organizers a better opportunity to stage the tournament at the highest level, we offered [them] the option to move the tournament into the first week of November. |
It's premature to talk about if any tournaments will be moved off the schedule. I think that's unlikely. |
She wasn't as forthright as she could have been, ... When something like this happens, someone has to be able to stand up and say, 'You know what? We didn't do the right thing here, and now we are going to make it better.' |
The remaining issue in Reno is financial. Reno needs to show financial stability. |
They have over 1,000 trees down on the golf course. They had disease in some of the greens, and they were going to re-sod four greens, which is obviously delayed now. |
They're giving the man a chance. |
This was the event that caused additional focus on the fact we did not have a set of standards, a set of guidelines, on how to operate in excessive weather. |
We do have guys that play mini-tours and they'll try to Monday qualify four or five times. But they have to decide where they want to try to play. |
We think this is wonderful to have this tremendous project here in Hartford and to have it at the site of the tournament. |
We'd like to have something stronger, like the World Series ending the baseball season. We are considering a vast number of options. |
We'll let them know, ask them to please be careful and think about maybe switching. We'll make sure they're aware there's some concern about it among Tour members. |
What we're doing is trying to work with tournaments to facilitate a more successful Monday pro-am. As long as there's not a competition, it's for charity only with no prize money, that's an unofficial event that does not prohibit them from using carts. |