Q. There is talk about maybe cutting back the number of events and consolidating, what do you think about that?
A. I think that would be a huge mistake. First and foremost, the PGA Tour has always been a service organization to the community and the charities that are involved in the PGA Tour. Let's not forget that every community we go to, there are literally a thousand or 1,500 volunteers that volunteer their time and give of us their days for us to be able to play golf. When you're out on the golf course and you see the volunteers holding the "quiet please" signs and holding the ropes. Last week at the US Open there was a couple of bottlenecks, as you know, and the volunteers were helping the players cross and get through people. That is a lot of work and they're volunteering their time. They're volunteering their time for one reason; they want to be able to help their community through the charitable donations. When you are talking about some of the tournaments that we play around that country that doesn't get the attention that the US Open does or a Barclays Classic, there are still hundreds of thousands of dollars that are generated through these charities to those communities. We would not only be doing a disservice to the communities and charities, but a huge disservice to the PGA Tour. Those people have donated a lot of time and effort in support of those charities. I would hate for us to roll the schedules back.
