Perhaps the JMT is a microcosm for all sport- and could well serve a 2nd year sociology course to help explain why there's so much money available to grown men playing games. Really, does it makes sense that a 32 year old be paid $15,000,000 to play baseball for a few months? Sports is the background for human drama, a medium that generates emotion unimagineable until it starts to actually appear.
Case Study for first Semester: The Kingpin, Jackie Moon himself.
Although most tour members are at least somewhat aware of why Jackie invented the tour in the first place, most fans of the league are in the dark regarding the original motivation. It was a gesture of friendship, an act of compassion coupled by some natural tendencies of pioneering, and leadership. That this description lacks any meaningful detail is intentional. The ideas mentioned are significant. This is the side of Jackie that faces east in the morning. The JMT was not a brainchild of Jackie's- this undertaking was born in his heart.
A project as large in scope and ambition as a nine-member, 13 event golf tour should not be underestimated. Securing membership turned out to be a fairly simple process, and there's already reason to believe the tour will grow in its sophmore year. Figuring out a schedule came easily enough. The first event co-incided with the start of the season and the bi-weekly schedule made sense for many reasons. Jackie can be applauded also for his work not only for finding venues with decent playing conditions, but also for booking tee times immediately into twilight hours to ensure the tour could carry out one of its initial objectives to provide good value for its members. In these respects the JMT is a resounding success, and historians will fondly look back at 2008.
After this blogger gets some work done- we'll return to examine some of the uglier aspects of year one: handicaps and regulations.
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