Jeff Shelley, Geoff Shackelford ask tough questions about the Tiger effect

Jeff Shelley of Cybergolf wrote this great article about how when Tiger doesn’t play an event, the event suffers financially.

Geoff Shackelford addresses the same concern in a piece where he quotes Gary Van Sickle.

Here’s the van Sickle article in full.  Gary is dead on target.  The tournament was built on the bones of other, more pedigreed tourneys.