When he got back to San Francisco, he and his friend YuChiang Cheng went for it, starting a company called World Golf Tour.
That course never saw the light of day, but World Golf Tour was born, and the first challenge course, Bali Hai Golf Club in Las Vegas, was captured for online gamers to play through select shots on each hole.
"For every given skill ranking, the official world golf ranking for PGA Tour players averaged 36 positions worse than for non-PGA Tour players, " Rendleman said.
On a very positive note, the PGA Tour and the world of professional golf in general seemingly has unprecedented depth.
DiMarco, making his first appearance in a European Tour event outside the majors and world golf championships, hit back from a double-bogey six at the first to keep within one shot of Stenson.
But after victory at the Cadillac Championship in Doral last week -- his 17th World Golf Championship title -- Woods can now reach golf's pinnacle if he can secure his 77th PGA Tour triumph.
Broadie and his co-researcher, Dick Rendleman of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, are the ones who determined that the World Golf Rankings favor players who earn points primarily outside the PGA Tour.
Finchem and the PGA Tour shot it down, only to launch their own World Golf Championships in 1999.
"Colin said himself, when he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, he intends to compete on the American seniors tour the moment he turns 50 this summer, " the 63-year-old, who was skipper in 1991, '93 and '95, told the Scottish Daily Record newspaper.
The PGA Tour runs the American circuit and plays a leading role in staging World Golf Championship events.
He covered Spain's 2010 World Cup victory from Madrid and has broadcast live from Wimbledon, the US Open (both tennis and golf), the Ryder Cup, the Open Championship, the Rugby World Cup, the Tour de France, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and five consecutive Champions League finals.
"Essentially where the PGA Tour came down was that they did not think that banning anchoring was in the best interest of golf or the PGA Tour, " the circuit's commissioner Tim Finchem told a press conference at the World Golf Championship event at Dove Mountain.
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