But whatever Finchem is channeling, it seems to be working to his players' advantage.
WSJ: Tim Finchem on the State of Golf in 2012 | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport
That may be bad news for the nation's office managers, but it thrills Finchem.
WSJ: Tim Finchem on the State of Golf in 2012 | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport
Finchem and the PGA Tour shot it down, only to launch their own World Golf Championships in 1999.
It could have something to do with his long-running feud with Timothy Finchem, the PGA Tour's 59-year-old commissioner.
Mr. Finchem said the Tour signed 13 sponsorship deals in 2009, including several extensions through 2016, and two more this year.
But PGA Tour commissioner, Tim Finchem, is owed some credit as well.
As for tournaments with no sponsor so far, Mr. Finchem is optimistic these will be picked up as the economy gradually improves.
In an interview this month, Mr. Finchem said that during that 2000 meeting, Mr. Woods raised all of the issues he had discussed publicly.
During Norman's induction to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001, Finchem praised Norman for coming up with the idea for the world championship.
Finchem said that part of the reason Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood rejoined the PGA Tour this year was to be eligible for the playoffs' bounty.
WSJ: Tim Finchem on the State of Golf in 2012 | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport
Mr. Finchem said he never seriously considered giving Mr. Woods a cut of the Tour's TV revenue, which would have reduced the amount available for prizes.
Mr. Finchem basically had a choice: Adjust the financial underpinnings of professional golf to satisfy its most popular player or risk the disaster of his leaving the Tour.
Earlier, Finchem and the Tour came out against the ban.
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"Make it go away" probably best describes Commissioner Finchem's attitude.
FedEx's current sponsorship of the playoffs ends after this year, but Finchem, uncharacteristically, felt buoyant enough about the ongoing negotiations to say he felt "very positive" that FedEx would re-up.
WSJ: Tim Finchem on the State of Golf in 2012 | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport
Mr. Finchem said he included Mr. Woods's tournament in the television package not to direct TV money to the golfer's activities but to make the overall package more valuable to networks.
"I saw what Tim Finchem had to say and it seems like the European Tour is going to go a different way, " McIlroy told a press conference ahead of the Honda Open.
After the meeting, Tour executives called corporate sponsors to explain Mr. Woods's objections to the extensive use of his image and encourage them to use more players in their promotions, Mr. Finchem said.
Finchem hates the divisiveness and distraction the proposal has stirred up, and reportedly prevailed on the Tour's player policy board, which met Monday, to write a letter to the USGA expressing the Tour's opposition.
According to someone familiar with the details of the meeting, the two men sat across a table from each other, Mr. Woods flanked by his agent and Mr. Finchem joined by another PGA Tour executive.
"At a time when women represent one of the fastest growing segments in both playing and following the game of golf, this sends a positive and inclusive message for our sport, " Finchem said in a statement.
" PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem, a former adviser to President Jimmy Carter, noted during the Mickelson brouhaha that "there are businesses relocating out of California because they can operate better in states that have lower tax rates.
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Finchem does not foresee a single global tour superseding the major regional or continental tours, but he does believe that a more coordinated world competitive schedule will evolve, and it may eventually include some kind of major new global competition.
WSJ: Tim Finchem on the State of Golf in 2012 | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport
"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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