THE NOT SO "SILLY" SEASON

Remember what the media used to call "The Silly Season"? Skins, Senior Skins, Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge, Skills Challenge and all of these 2-3 day tournaments hosted by PGA pros or celebrities, including the "after September tournaments that ended the calendar season, and determined the top 125 exempt players for the next year? I miss it.

Here is the thing, somehow, the new "wrap around season" is not the same as a calendar year season. Thank God the majors stayed within the calendar year, though in the future we may say, "Jordan Spieth won the Masters in the 2014-2015 season" should he win in 2015. I truly think it is weird, if not truly stupid.

Do we have to be like Football? Come on! Golf is a year-round sport, in winter and spring you play in the southern part of the country, and summer and fall in the northern part. There are other changes I can think about without saying the "2014-2015 season". it is either one or the other one. 2014, for all practical purposes ended this weekend with the unofficial Tiger Hero Challenge that wasn't much of a challenge except for 2nd place as Jordan Spieth won by 10 shots.

By the way, I keep hearing that he "cannot be a dominant player because he does not have the length", really? I think he has plenty of length.... sort of like "hidden length". He was playing with one "long hitter", and was outdriving him and no one mentioned that.

Anyway, back to the "silly Season". I like to watch  skins (no longer in the calendar), White Shark Challenge, Father-Son, Tiger's Tournament and others along with the regular stops of the PGA Tour, and would like to finish the year with Q-School and see who are the 125 exempt players along with the qualifiers of the Q-School and BuyDotCom Tour. For all I care, they can include certain later year tournaments for points for Ryder Cup or President's Cup teams, but a year is a calendar year. Period.

I don't think I will ever get used to this.

Question, 95% of games in the NFL are played in September, October, November, December (same with NBA), but the playoffs are early the following year. So, Superbowl Champions in 2015 are actually the champions of the 2014 season. Weird. Are the major champions of 2015, going to be major winners of the 2014 season?

I'm confused!