User talk:Tewapack/Archive 13

Tribune/Specrtum dispute

I am missing our local Fox network affiliate because of the dispute. Out of curiosity, are you missing any TV stations in your area because of this dispute? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 12:03, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Update: The dispute is over between Spectrum and Tribune! We can now watch Channel 8, as of 7:17 AM. And around the country, people will now have their stations back. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 12:49, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions

This tournament is now an official LPGA event, but it still has celebrities, as it did as a Champions Tour event.
How do you suppose the page for this event should be handled? Do you think a new page should be made for it? Or, do you think we should use the existing page and update the information in it? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 17:05, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

I'd say definitely a separate page (with links both ways to the other page) - separate tours. Tewapack (talk) 17:33, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Question about owgr

Something occurred to me. We list the tournaments in order of "total rating value". And conveniently, they all typically have a player value of at least 50. Well, what happens if one of these times, a certain tournament that usually makes it on to the list by being high up in the "total rating value" happens to have a player value below 50 this time around? What are we to do? Simply skip it and not put it in the list? I'll give you an example: The Abu Dhabi event, this year, is only at a player value of 48. Usually this event would make it on to the list by being high up in the "total rating value". But since the player value is below 50 this time, the current logic would dictate that it cannot be on the list. But what if this Abu Dhabi tournament's "total rating value" ends up being higher than certain other tournaments whose player value is at least a 50? We would actually be skipping right over it as if it didn't exist, and then going right on to the next one down on the list. You can see the dilemma, right? Wouldn't it be acceptable, in a case like that, to make an exception for such and event and allow it into the list? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 21:54, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

The case you describe can't happen. Except for the majors and flagship events, the "Event Rating" is directly derived from the "Total rating value". The only tournament that arguably could make the list with a lower "Total rating value" is the BMW PGA Championship - it had a "Total rating value" of 283 in 2018 which would have been an "Event Rating" of 46 but has a tournament minimum of 64 as the European Tour "flagship event". The purpose of the list is to show the "highest rated" tournaments for a given year. It also shows how the rating is determined - four numerical columns that follow from the preceding description of the ratings and rankings. Since the list is replaced every year, I have no problem if a tournament like Abu Dhabi comes and goes from the list. 50 is a nice round number (and half of the max) so it's a logical cut-off point - and it makes the list a reasonable size. Tewapack (talk) 05:15, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Farmers Insurance Open

The overall purse has an increase of $200,000, but the 1st place increase is only $26,000. This suggests that the winner's portion increase is only 13 percent. Isn't the winner's share usually 18 percent? Why would it be only a 13 percent increase? Perhaps the information available is incorrect? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 21:37, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Increase is $36,000 ($1,242,000 to $1,278,000) so 18%. Tewapack (talk) 21:58, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

I must'a been off by a digit, "2" instead of "3". All that fuss for nothin'. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 22:02, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

MOS:FLAG

No: "Generally, flag icons should not be used in infoboxes, even when there is a "country", "nationality" or equivalent field: they are unnecessarily distracting and give undue prominence to one field among many." But I'm not going to duke it out again with yet another flag fetishist. Drmies (talk) 23:34, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for doing the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions page. I actually had forgotten all about doing it, because I am backed up on a number of things to do in Wikipedia. There simple aren't enough hours in the day. And it's amazing how there is always something that needs updated or created in golf for Wikipedia. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 14:00, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Spectrum and Golf Channel confusion

I don't know if you noticed, but, a week ago, the Spectrum cable program guide (which you see when you access it in the cable box) showed, for today at 10:00 AM Eastern time on Golf Channel, that promotional "PGA Tour Live" coverage of the API for four hours, to precede the regularly scheduled coverage at 2:00 PM. Well, fast forward to last night, I went back into the program guide in the cable box to take another look to make sure that the "PGA Tour Live" portion was still scheduled for 10:00 this morning. But what I found was that it had been taken out and replaced with what was "Golf Central Pregame". When I saw that there, I was disappointed. Needless to say, the "PGA Tour Live" feed of the API did not happen this morning. So, on the one hand, I can say I have seen several mistakes in the Spectrum cable box program guide in the recent past (I am sure I told you about one or two of them). But also, there is also a chance that it wasn't Spectrum's fault this time. Perhaps Golf Channel was planning on giving us, as they did with the first rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open and the Genesis Open, some "PGA Tour Live" coverage today of the API, and at some point they changed their mind and decided not to give it to us afterall. If that is the case, then obviously Spectrum would have been instructed to take it out of the program guide. So, the question is, was it simply another mistake by Spectrum, and they realized their mistake and corrected it, which would suggest that there never really was any plan for Golf Channel to show the "PGA Tour Live" feed this morning for four hours preceding the regularly scheduled four hours of regular Golf Channel coverage? Or, was the Spectrum guide initially correct, and that there was a plan for Golf Channel to show us the "PGA Tour Live" feed this morning for the four hours, and at some point in the last couple of days Golf Channel must have changed their mind and decided not to give it to us after all? I simply don't know who is to blame with this, the guys that program the Spectrum cable program guide, or Golf Channel for a change of plans. Either way, it is disappointing, because we were hoping to see that extra coverage, as we did with the first rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open and the Genesis Open. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:06, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

The new TV schedule calls for that "PGA Tour Live" extra to be shown at 10:00 AM on Golf Channel on the Thursday of the Wells Fargo Championship. Hopefully this doesn't turn out to be a false alarm like it was for the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 17:39, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Well, another false alarm. I checked the channel guide in the Spectrum cable box, and it has been updated to show that it will be a rerun of the China Open at 10:00 AM on Thursday, instead of the "PGA Tour Live" bonus coverage of the Wells Fargo Championship. This is disappointing. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 16:26, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

SAS Chamionship

I noticed you have recently and a lot in the past edited the SAS Championship page about golf, I found the runner ups to each of the champions on the PGA website and was wondering whether you think I should add that information to the page or not, please let me know! Bluecrab2 (talk) 05:02, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

I'd suggest looking at the other current PGA Tour Champions event pages to see how additional data is added. Tewapack (talk) 06:36, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

OWGR

How did you find out what all the ranking numbers for the Valspar Championship are before they are published? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 07:33, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Since they publish the list of participants and their rankings, you can calculate the "world rating value" and subtract from the "total rating value" to get the "home tour rating value". Tewapack (talk) 18:55, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for fixing my mistake on the Champions Tour pages. I logged on today, saw what I did and how you corrected it, and I could've kicked myself for the info I put in last night. I was tired when I was doing that and I obviously wasn't thinking clearly, entering the names of Kirk Triplett and Woody Austin instead of Kevin Sutherland and Scott Parel. It's embarrassing, but at least the info is correct now. Thanks again. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 21:42, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

And thanks for fixing the Texas Open edit I made. I have too much on my plate these days and it's not always easy to concentrate. It's also why I am so backed up on getting things done Wikipedia this year. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 06:13, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Not a problem. Tewapack (talk) 15:02, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Tee times

Have you ever seen tee times in tournaments be only eight minutes apart when the groups are in three's? I don't remember tee times being eight minutes apart even in groups of two's, let alone three's. I noticed that the ANA Inspiration has tee times eight minutes apart. Doesn't that seem that they are making things difficult by doing that? If it was like this last year, I don't specifically remember that. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 04:52, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Actually, I might be mistaken about it being in three's, it might be two's. But still, only eight minutes apart. Seems they are pushing it, doesn't it? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 04:56, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Same as last year, groups of 2 every 8 minutes. Founders was groups of 3 every 11 minutes. Texas Open on PGA Tour is groups of 3 every 10 minutes. Whatever works. Tewapack (talk) 05:45, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Mike Weir - Majors timeline

Thanx for the explanation on the revert - I'm not sure it's necessary, but I can live with it. Fore! PKT(alk) 17:26, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Low ratings

The viewership numbers of the Zurich Classic this past weekend were shockingly low (at least in the USA). Even the final round on Sunday on CBS got only less than 1.5 million viewers. The typical Sunday usually gets two to three times that much for the PGA Tour on CBS (or NBC). It appears that golf fans simply aren't liking the team concept. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 16:26, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

China Open

I see that the China Open points are now 24. Only a couple hours ago they were 19. I was convinced that 19 was too low. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 16:25, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

L.E.T. coverage

My cable box TV schedule is showing in its listings that Golf Channel will have same day coverage of the Ladies European Tour's "La Reserva de Sotogrande Invitational" on Thursday, May 16th. Hopefully this will hold true and not be a mistake like so many of the other listings. If this turns out to be true, this will be interesting for at least three reasons. Firstly, the fact that Golf Channel will be showing the first round of an LET event is very rare. Second, it's also rare that Golf Channel shows same day coverage of the LET. And third, Spanish golfer Nuria Iturrios has now won her 2nd consecutive LET tournament, and this tournament will be played in her home country of Spain. So, if we do in fact get to see it, that would be great (despite the fact that the average golf fan in the USA doesn't have much interest). The only problem is that it will be on simultaneously opposite of TNT's coverage of the PGA Championship. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 22:36, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

L.E.T. points

Many events on the LET seem to be missing their points. Has the ranking site failed to show the points for those events? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 14:53, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

The website can be a little flaky. I found it by narrowing the search to just the LET on the Events page (note that co-sanctioned events only turn up on one tour's page). Tewapack (talk) 17:19, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Premier League on Golf Channel!

I was looking through the TV schedule for the British Masters, and I found that, from what is posted, the British Masters must apparently be scheduled to finish early in the day on Sunday, because at 9:59 AM Eastern time (2:59 PM in the UK) Golf Channel is scheduled to show an English Premier League game. I know that Golf Channel is in the NBC family, and NBC shows the Premier League frequently. And I know that the Sky Network, which used to be affiliated with the Fox family, is now affiliated with the NBC family, and the Sky family does in fact also show the English Premier League. All of this is fine, except for the fact that it is soccer scheduled to be on Golf Channel, which doesn't seem right, especially if it means that we will be cut off from seeing the end of the final round of the British Masters. Personally I'm hoping that this is only another silly mistake made by the people who put the programming into the Spectrum cable box. It's had several mistakes before, as I have mentioned over the past year. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:51, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Also, this year's British Masters on Thursday and Friday will be shown in segments, sandwiched around Morning Drive. Last year, the British Masters was shown for eight hours in a row with no interruption from Morning Drive. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 21:27, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Koepka

Somehow it got by me that Brooks Koepka had been ranked number one before. Do you remember when that was, and how long it lasted? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 22:50, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

See List of World Number One male golfers Tewapack (talk) 22:52, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Wow, four times now. Somehow I never noticed, or don't remember. Probably because the number one ranking has been changing so much lately, it can be hard to remember who is occupying it. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 22:58, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

I have a follow up question. I noticed that Koepka's ranking on the ranking page has been changed to "3" after the PGA Championship. I thought that number was supposed to suggest their ranking after the tournament and not before? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 14:14, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

The text says ranking before. Not sure if all the others are correct or not. Tewapack (talk) 14:19, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Jenny Shin

Jenny Shin is being listed as being from the USA. This is a mistake, isn't it? I think she is still South Korean. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 18:36, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

South Korean Tewapack (talk) 19:19, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Okay. Strange that the website is still showing her as being American. So, I made sure, when loading the nationalities to the 2019 US Women's Open page, to show the USA to South Korea ratio as being 54 to 22, and not 55 to 21. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 22:57, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

What website? Tewapack (talk) 22:59, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

The USGA site. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 23:12, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Interesting, the tee times tab has her as USA but the field tab has her as KOR which is correct. Tewapack (talk) 03:47, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Hmm, I hadn't looked at the field tab. I wanted to see what the leaderboard tab would have her as, but it isn't loaded on the site yet. Soon, though. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 06:14, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

May 2019

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Viewership

Of all the nonmajors this year, the Memorial Tournament had a better Thursday and Friday than any tournament this year, except for The Players. It's good to see the Memorial did so well, and in the next day or so I will be able to find out how it did on the weekend. Not sure if this means that the Canadian Open will have big numbers too, but definitely the US Open should have great numbers this year because of Koepka, Woods, and the fact that it will be out on the west coast, enabling a lot more viewers to watch in the afternoon. The Masters likely would have done better if it had not been moved up five hours on the final day. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:47, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

While the final round of the Memorial was on CBS, Fox had the final round of the Women's US Open, which got only 728,000 viewers nationwide. There's always a large gap between the number of viewers the men of the PGA get and the women of the LPGA get. And this was one of the rare times I was able to even find the women's numbers. (I never was able to find the numbers for the final round of the ANA Inspiration.) The numbers for a typical LPGA event usually aren't even released to the public. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 00:55, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Apparently there is more enthusiasm around the USA for women's tennis than for women's golf. As I said, this women's US golf Open had a final round of 728 thousand, but last September's women's championship match of the US tennis Open got 3 million viewers around the USA, which is more than 4 times what the women's golf received. And even then, that tennis was on ESPN, a cable network, as opposed to a broadcast network like Fox. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 01:21, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Not sure if your interested or not, but with the numbers that have come in for the US Open and the finish of the hockey, Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals got a little over 8 million viewers around the USA, and the final round of the US Open golf tournament got over 7 million viewers. I did not anticipate more people wanting to watch the hockey game than the final round of the golf. I know it's like comparing apples to oranges, but still. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 10:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

The Women's PGA Championship final round on NBC got 718 thousand viewers. That is 10,000 fewer viewers than what the final round of the Women's US Open got. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 04:24, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

And while I'm at it, it turns out that CBS did better with the Canadian Open a few weeks ago than they did with the Travelers Championship this past weekend. Compared to the Canadian Open, CBS had, for the Travelers Championship, 100,000 fewer viewers on Saturday, and 500,000 fewer viewers on Sunday. Who knows what all could factor into that happening, but I wouldn't think that CBS would do better with the Canadian Open than with the Travelers Championship. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 04:52, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

It turns out that the Rocket Mortgage Classic only got 329,000 viewers on Friday on Golf Channel, which makes that the worst Friday this year so far for the PGA Tour. But maybe we can give it the benefit of the doubt because, at that same time, people may have been flipping over to watch Team USA in the Women's World Cup. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 00:51, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
But Sunday on CBS was disappointing also. The final round only got 1.8 million viewers nationwide. On the same weekend last year, the Quicken Loans National's final round got approximately 3.5 million viewers, which is almost double what the Rocket Mortgage Classic's final round got. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 11:27, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

PGA Tour Live

The TV schedule is once again showing a presentation of "PGA Tour Live" as a free treat on Golf Channel for the first round of a PGA Tour event, this time the Travelers Championship. That Thursday, the "PGA Tour Live" portion is scheduled to be on in two sections, 7:30 to 9:30 AM, and 12:00 to 2:00 PM, Eastern time. And that first section even keeps the coverage of the European Tour to a minimum for the day. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 08:24, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

I checked the cable box schedule again, and the "PGA Tour Live" sections are still showing it there. So, hopefully we won't be disappointed, hopefully it really will happen, so we can see some extra Travelers Championship coverage. So far, it's only happened twice, the Farmers Insurance Open, and the Genesis Open. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 09:56, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Golf Grand Slam

I think it is wrong to include the section on this page that says Nicklaus and Woods have won 3 career slams. This gives an indication that they have won the 4 in one year, there is absolutely no need to include this section as it looks stupid and is misleading. regards DooksFoley147 (talk) 15:09, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

"Career slam" is clearly defined in the article, so I don't think it is misleading. Tewapack (talk) 15:18, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

KPMG

The references to this sponsor on individual pages are unnecessary. The tournament can be addressed neutrally as the Women's PGA Championship without any references to sponsors. ViperSnake151  Talk  15:39, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

I disagree, the full name of the tournament should be stated at least once in the articles. Tewapack (talk) 15:41, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

That is the full name of the tournament. KPMG just paid to shoehorn their name into it. This is a tournament at the same stature as the men's majors —none of which have sponsored titles. WP:COMMONNAME. ViperSnake151  Talk  15:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

The full name of the tournament is KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Unfortunately, the women's majors don't enjoy the same stature as the men's majors and have to have sponsored names, that's the current reality. I don't have a problem with the article titles being the non-sponsored versions but to eliminate the full name entirely is ignoring reality. WP:COMMONNAME applies to article titles not every reference to the subject. Tewapack (talk) 15:52, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Standard compromise practice elsewhere is to separate the sponsored version from the neutral version (i.e. "The 2019 Women's PGA Championship (branded as 2019 KPMG Women's PGA Championship for sponsorship reasons"). On the articles of tennis tournaments, it is actually standard practice to not recognize the naming rights sponsor at all (such as the Indian Wells Masters, officially known as "B&P Paribas Open", although the women's tournament here doesn't seem to use the sponsorship and is just referred to as the "Indian Wells Open"). ViperSnake151  Talk  16:24, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Golf isn't tennis. Why use "The 2019 Women's PGA Championship (branded as 2019 KPMG Women's PGA Championship for sponsorship reasons"). " when "The 2019 KPMG Women's PGA Championship." is short and accurate. To removed sponsors names entirely is misguided and leads to article names that were never used in reality. Tewapack (talk) 16:36, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

I honestly have never seen your position before. But it's all about being natural and consistent. The title of all the previous editions, given on Wikipedia, is "LPGA Championship". In fact, all of the older LPGA Championship articles do not reference their presenting sponsors in the leads at all, or do so in the way I described. ViperSnake151  Talk  18:30, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

About the Japan golf events

Seeing that the PGA will be cosanctioning an event in Japan for the first time (the Zozo Championship), which means that Golf Channel will have to show it to us, maybe this will be the year that Golf Channel finally allows us to see the other two big events in Japan, the Japan Open and the Dunlop Phoenix. The Japan Open is the week before the Zozo event, and then the Dunlop Phoenix is only three or four weeks after that. Golf Channel has made the decision, over the years, to randomly show us any tournament they want to show us regardless of whether they are contractually obligated to do so. So, being that they already have to show us the Zozo event, I can't see why they couldn't go ahead and show the other two events as well. There's not even a time conflict, because it will be in the middle of the night in the States anyway. And it's a shame that so many of the world's big golf names have been in those two events for years and we have not been able to see them because neither Golf Channel nor any other network has bothered to show them in the States. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 03:16, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

It turns out that neither the Japan Open nor the Dunlop Phoenix Tournament were on Golf Channel, again. It would be nice to see the Dunlop Phoenix at least, as Gary Woodland is in it. Golf Channel always used to give us that Asian Tour event in Thailand, despite that it had no names that the casual American golf fan would know. This seems like a missed opportunity by Golf Channel. They had even made the decision to show us the Singapore Open because Jordan Spieth was in it. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 18:23, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Former LPGA Tour events question

Hello. I see you created the Hardscrabble Open and All American Open (LPGA Tour) articles. I was wondering if there was a replacement source that confirms when these tournaments were officially LPGA Tour events. The archived link from LPGA Tour doesn't confirm it. There isn't a link for the 1940-49 events either, nor an archived link. Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:17, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Refs added to both (based on official wins lists for winners). Tewapack (talk) 20:12, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Perfect. Thanks again :) --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:13, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

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Youtube links

Do links to Youtube videos count as legitimate references, especially in golfers' articles? I see that one particular golfer has had a Youtube link added to his article in the last hour. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 19:05, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Also, the user that added the Youtube link has already had a couple of their edits rolled back on that page in the last couple of hours. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 19:22, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Depends, see WP:VIDEOREF. In this case, it is not worthy of inclusion on Wikipedia. Tewapack (talk) 21:04, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Okay. And I see you found what I was talking about. Now that it is British Open week, there is no telling what all sort of strange edits we will see applied to golfers' Wikipedia pages. Hopefully it will not be much. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 12:00, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Rv on Max Faulkner

Hi there. You recently made this revert with the statement that it's standard practice on golfer articles. Unfortunately a standard on a project or certain articles cannot trump the project's policies. Individual pages must follow the policies, and these pages fail MOS:FLAG on many levels. Not representing countries, not having explanations of the flag name, avoiding flags in infoboxes etc. Additionally I see nothing in the Golf wikiproject to indicate that flags should be used, no information on the golfer infobox to use flags, no style that says they need to be used. Canterbury Tail talk 16:31, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

An unexpected early start

Golf Channel came on with the Open today at 4:30 AM, instead of the scheduled 5:00 AM start that the cable box schedule is showing. That might not sound like a big deal, but it could mean that many people around the USA who were planning on recording it at 5:00 AM will be upset later on when they go to watch their recording and find that the broadcast started earlier than they were led to believe. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 09:13, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Partner Parameter

Please understand that the Partner parameter is for longterm unmarried domestic partnerships. There are no indications of such with Ms. Sims, just like his previous girlfriends, thus she should not be listed. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_person#Parameters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_partnership Maxen Embry (talk) 06:06, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Evian

Currently, the Evian website is only showing 111 players. Usually the Evian has 120 players. Does this mean that the website isn't finished loading players, or does it mean that the Evian has shortened the number of players this year?

LPGA site [1] has full 120 player field. I'll update the field list when I get a chance. Tewapack (talk) 19:34, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Okay. .. There is strangeness to the official Evian website. Many players don't have a flag under their name. Ashleigh Buhai has the Russian flag under her name despite being from South Africa. And the site is still eight players short anyway. It's all strange, and who knows if or when it will be repaired.

About the weekend coverage, this year the Evian and Senior British Open are on on the same week. Both tournaments normally have NBC coverage on the weekend. Since they can't both be on NBC at the same time, one of them would have to go to another network on the weekend. So, the Evian this year is not on NBC on the weekend, it is on CNBC. So, the Evian does not get broadcast network coverage this year, but gets cable network coverage instead. The upside is, at least this time we get the final round live. The last few years when NBC had the final round, it was on tape delay. It will be nice to have it live this time, even though it will be on cable. ... And speaking of that, to this day, the ANA Inspiration remains the only women's major not to have broadcast network coverage on the weekend. I guess NBC figures that the LPGA women can't do well in the prime time hours. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 16:12, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Update on golf ratings

The viewership for the final round of the Wyndham Championship on CBS was uninspiring, it got only 1.7 million viewers nationwide (the NASCAR race got 2.7 million, and that was on cable!). But good news for the Women's British Open on NBC, it got 1.186 million viewers nationwide; it was the only women's major this year to get over one million viewers nationwide for the final round. Ironic too, because it was on TV earlier in the day than the other women's majors because of the time zone situation. The final rounds of the Women's PGA Championship and the US Women's Open each got under 800 thousand viewers nationwide.

Grace DeMoss

Hi Tewapack, I changed the category on Grace DeMoss because the article specifically says that she did not compete on golf at Oregon State since there was no team. She was not a varsity athlete at Oregon State. Is there a reason you reverted that? Billcasey905 (talk) 05:40, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

My mistake - reverted. Tewapack (talk) 05:43, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Important world ranking question

I worked long and hard on making a women's version of the owgr chart to show the events and their strength ratings, and I posted it on the wwgr page this morning. I checked back in a few minutes ago, and found that an editor, who apparently never does any golf editing at all, decided to come along and take it out, citing that it should not be there because it isn't for 2019. Do you think there is any harm having it on there? It is for 2017. If someone wants to spend the time and effort making a newer one, that is fine, but in the meanwhile I don't see any harm in showing the one that I already made. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:11, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Zefr does some golf editing - mainly on a handful of female golfers. I was also surprised that you chose 2017 instead of 2018 or 2019 - seems dated. The equivalent chart on OWGR page is 2018 with 2019 hidden. The bigger question I have is that the 1) the Rolex ratings formula is not public, 2) the "World rating value", "Home tour rating value", and "Total rating value" seem to have no correlation to the "Event ranking". I know that you got the values from the official site but something is missing - their values just don't make any sense except for the "Event ranking". Without details of the formula, the first three columns are meaningless. So if a 2018 or 2019 table is made, I think the only columns should be date, tournament, tour, event ranking, winner. Tewapack (talk) 20:28, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Well, the reason that I did the 2017 chart is because I started it a year ago, about halfway through the 2018 season. It took me this long to finish it because of lack of time to work on it. So, I figured that the 2017 chart could suffice for now until an updated chart is made. As far as the values go, I could tell that not all of it quite made sense, but I went ahead and put it in the chart as it was listed at the website. I knew that as long as I made it sortable, people could click on to see the ranking in the way they want. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:40, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Viewership update

As the playoffs are going on in golf, the interest in it appears to be picking up; the final round of the BMW Championship on Sunday got 3,150,000 viewers on NBC. ... While I am at it, Saturday afternoon at 12:30, an English Premier League game got 1,040,000 viewers on NBC, proving the popularity of European soccer in the USA. And Sunday's championship match of the US Amateur golf got 310,000 viewers on Fox, although it was up against the final round of the BMW Championship. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 04:43, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Walker Cup coverage

Al I can find for WC coverage is a late night highlight show on Golf Channel. Do you know if there is a TV network in the States that will actually be showing this event?

See https://www.amateurgolf.com/golf-tournament-news/20027/Walker-Cup--TV-Times--Schedule-of-Play-from-Los-Angeles-CC Tewapack (talk) 13:11, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of GAC Classic

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2020 PGA Tour: Prize Money Allocation

Greetings Tewapack ...

RE your edit of the "Cut Rules" section on the 2020 PGA Tour page, I have no issue with your deleting my mention of possible prize money distribution changes. Surely it is understood by everyone (at least unofficially) that the new cut rules may very well mean a change to the 70-place distribution method that has been a staple of the PGA Tour since 1979. Yet no official announcement of what the PGA Tour intends to do about the money distribution situation has been made up to this time.

Like me and many others, you have no doubt followed the story of the change to the Low-65 cut throughout this year of 2019. And no doubt that you may have read some reports on the possibility of a radical revision of the prize money distribution that would allow for a 20% 1st prize, which was the PGA Tour standard from 1965 to 1978. There's been nothing said of this in any recent articles announcing the new Low-65 cut rule.

Another possibility -- perhaps more likely to be put into effect -- is to adopt the 65-place money distribution currently used on the Korn Ferry Tour. Using the Korn Ferry distribution and a base $ 5.00 million purse as an example, payouts for 1st thru 25th place are the same as those in the 70-place distribution. Korn Ferry places 26th thru 65th offer slightly different payouts vs. those for the 70-place distribution.

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank Fgf2007 (talk) 03:57, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Go to https://pgatourmedia.pgatourhq.com/Tour/WebTemplate/media.nsf/vwWebFS/8264BAEBE0BFD62685257E7500680F40?openDocument and select "A Military Tribute at The Grennbrier", then "Tie table.pdf" to see the new distribution formula. Tewapack (talk) 15:37, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Fgf2007 (talk) 23:32, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

UPDATE: PGA Tour Prize Money

Greetings Tewapack

See (and refer others to) the section "For Any Editors: New PGA Tour 65-place Prize Money Distribution" on the Talk:2020 PGA Tour page.

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank Fgf2007 (talk) 23:32, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

European Tour website

I went to the site, and there is a new layout. I can't get much of anything to load, tee times, leaderboard, etc. Frustrating. Is there a way to change it back to the way it was? As it is now, it is useless for me. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 00:24, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

I noticed it today too. Looks like they are still working out the kinks. Tewapack (talk) 03:07, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

I checked it a few minutes ago, and I still can't get anything to load. The tee times and leaderboard are not showing anything for me. I am hoping they do something to enable people to go back to the previous version. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 15:55, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

I just checked and the tee times and leaderboard work for me. Tewapack (talk) 16:55, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

All-time OWGR top 50 list

I notice that you're working on the OWGR top 50. I made a stab awhile back at this list, although I didn't try to find their highest ranking. I have put this in my User:Nigej/sandbox. 398 entries. No claims for accuracy or completeness but may be useful to you. I'm thinking it's relatively complete (95%+ maybe) but this may be just wishful thinking. Feel free to copy or edit, if it is any use to you. Nigej (talk) 06:52, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll take a look. Tewapack (talk) 14:06, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the additions. FYI. I'm starting to go through my list at User:Nigej/sandbox, starting at the end and adding the highest rankings. Some early ones from the 1980s are quite an effort and I've left a few for later (indicated by ???) Nigej (talk) 19:10, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

BMW Ladies Championship

Is this tournament a continuation of the LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship tournament? Or is it a new event? I ask because we would not need to make a new page for it if it is the same tournament under a new name. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 12:53, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Looks like it's a new tournament. See [2]. Tewapack (talk) 15:20, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

HSBC Champions ranking

The owgr site still shows the event is a 62, but there is some confusion that it might now be a 60. Is there a way to know for sure? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 10:23, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Update: The website has now lowered it to 60. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 14:15, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

McIlroy

I saw that you fixed the lower case "i" in McIlroy a minute ago. Honestly I don't know how that happened, as I did not type it that way. I actually copied and pasted it there. How it could have contained a lower case "i", I have no idea. Strange. I am leaving this message simply to let you know that I did not type his name with a lower case "i". I wouldn't make that kind of mistake. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 18:27, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

MOS:FLAG again

It's ridiculous that you insist upon little flags for professional golfers, particularly since most only played in the USA, or made it as far away as Britain to showcase their nationality. Read MOS:FLAG again, and pay attention. SteveStrummer (talk) 17:27, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

CME

I planned on starting the 2019 CME Group Tour Championship page today. If you like, I can do the overall portion, and you and others can fill in the names. I am going on break and I'll be back after a bit to start it. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 19:10, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Go ahead and start it. It looks like there are several changes this year. Tewapack (talk) 19:59, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

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cheatin'

A bit of a funny note: I went to put Jon Rahm's name in as the winner on the 2019 European Tour page as soon as he won, and I found that someone beat me to it by 6 minutes. This has to mean that someone cheated and put it in prematurely. Sometimes they get away with doing that. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 13:13, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for fixing that edit of mine, I am doing more than one thing at a time, splitting my attention, and I simply messed up a bit from not paying full attention. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 21:10, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Australian Open

I counted only 144 players in the AO this year. Don't they usually have 156? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 15:01, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

A quick check using owgr.com show field size of 144 in 2018, 156 in 2017, 156 in 2016. Looks like the field shrunk last year. Tewapack (talk) 15:32, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

No TV for the Asian finish

I checked the cable box schedule (which shows up to 13 days in advance) to see what will be on Golf Channel the last couple of weeks, and it is not showing either of the last two Asian Tour events (Indonesia and Thailand). This is disappointing, because each year we could usually count on Golf Channel showing at least one of those last two events. But also, usually Golf Channel would show the entire last tournament of the Ladies European Tour for the year, but this year they aren't doing that either; Golf Channel will only be showing abbreviated 3rd and 4th rounds of that final LET event in Kenya, being run next Monday and Tuesday. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 16:47, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Technically, Golf Channel is showing the 3nd and 4th rounds this Monday and Tuesday, of the Indonesian Masters. But they are not showing it live and they are not showing all four rounds. Also, next week's Asian Tour finale apparently will not even be getting the Monday and Tuesday treatment, no coverage at all. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 16:48, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

KLPGA

Is there an event missing from the 2019 KLPGA page here in Wikipedia? There is an event listed at the rolexrankings website for Week 49 that has a ranking of 18. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 01:27, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

It is the opening event of the 2020 season. Same as this year. Tewapack (talk) 06:57, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Births/Deaths categories

Why do you make a point of moving these to the end of the category list (like with Jo Ann Washam)? It doesn’t really matter, but these are usually among the first categories listed (usually after an eponymous category if it exists). I’ve just never seen anyone make a point to move these to the end as you did, so I was curious. Rikster2 (talk) 18:46, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

By MOS:CATORDER, "Normally the most essential, significant categories appear first." Birth/death categories are the least significant categories, that's why I put them last. My standard order for golfers is significance driven: golf categories first, other sports/awards/honors cats next, location-related cats next, b/d/living cats last. Tewapack (talk) 19:29, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

OK, that explains it - you have a different opinion of most/least important categories for biographies than many people. Most would say it’s the most significant info in a biographical article - it’s always the first information listed in the article after name, it’s one of the few items deemed important enough to appear in just about every infobox, etc. But like I said, it doesn’t really matter and where those categories sit isn’t mandated, I was just interested in a different POV. Thanks. Rikster2 (talk) 19:44, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

If one had to limit the number of categories in a bio to two or three, the b/d cats wouldn't be included. For Washam, it would be "American female golfers" and "LPGA Tour golfers". That's my interpretation of "most essential, significant". Tewapack (talk) 19:52, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Spam

Every time a bit golf tournament happens, someone comes along and adds potentially harmful spam to the page. Let's keep an eye on the 2019 Presidents Cup page a little extra, as I have already rolled back some spam. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 21:52, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

In fact, the guy has already used two accounts in the past hour to add his spam. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 21:58, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

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Rory Sabbatini

Does it make a difference which order the national flags appear in on his page? I noticed that an editor came along and switched the order. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 16:45, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Australian PGA Championship

I was wondering if you can tell me if the figures that I am finding about this year's tournament are correct. First, that this tournament has 121 players? And, that there is not even one European player in the tournament, despite being cosanctioned with the European Tour? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:07, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Go here and select "Round 1 Draw" - 156 players. Why they aren't list in the "Tournament Entries" is a mystery. Tewapack (talk) 20:49, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Pablo Larrazabal

Apologies for making a hash of the page but why do you not list Sunshine Tours separately as well as the others? Many other golfers have this on their pages. E.g. Adam Scott has his one Sunshine Tour listed individually with the rest. Thanks. Jimmymci234 (talk) 22:31, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

We normally don't list co-sanctioned events separately if the golfer isn't a member of that tour nor have any other non-co-sanctioned wins on that tour. Tewapack (talk) 03:26, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

"Consistent with other yearly articles"

I don't really see any other articles using such a title format? The standard format I've seen across Wikipedia is "[year] [league] season" (i.e. "2019 PBA Tour season"). ViperSnake151  Talk  05:57, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Every season, except 2020, in Category:Professional Bowlers Association seasons. Tewapack (talk) 06:00, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Hong Kong Open

My cable box TV schedule is showing an entry for Golf Channel to have the Hong Kong Open in a couple weeks, despite the fact that the HKO is not co sanctioned with the European Tour this time. We'll see when the time comes if in fact Golf Channel shows it. And hopefully Golf Channel will also be showing us the Singapore Open. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 06:09, 28 December 2019 (UTC)