Christmas in October in August on the Nationwide Tour

by Ryan Ballengee on Aug 18, 2009 12:37 PM EDT

Twitter buddy and Golf.com's Anne Szeker just pointed out something that's downright hilarious. The Nationwide Tour event this weekend is the inaugural Christmas in October Presented by Kansas City Crusaders.

What. The tourney for the week of August 17 references a holiday that doesn't even exist. It's Christmas in July, not October. Halloween is in October! I mean, maybe I would take a tournament called Halloween in October because the Nationwide Tour guys are dressed up in costume like real PGA Tour players. But, then again, Halfaween is in April and is already a recognized holiday. Players will not be dressed in costumes like this guy.

This kind of massive oversight isn't even mentioned on the Nationwide Tour's site. Fortunately, a Google search explains that Christmas in October is a KC-based charity - not a tear in the time-space continuum onset by YE Yang's earth-shattering PGA Championship win.

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It's good to have pro golf back in KC.

It’s the first stop in the metro area since the Champions Tour concluded the Greater Kansas City Golf Classic in 2006.

by Cairo on Aug 18, 2009 12:51 PM EDT reply actions

From your link

Nationwide Tour players have won 11 major championships and each at least once, most
recently Zach Johnson in the 2007 Masters

Huh?

by Cairo on Aug 18, 2009 12:53 PM EDT reply actions

I think they mean each major has been won by a Nationwide Tour grad at least one time. So, the Tour Grand Slam?

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by Ryan Ballengee on Aug 18, 2009 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Ah, that makes sense.

It is a poorly worded sentence.

by Cairo on Aug 18, 2009 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, that’s just bad syntax right there.

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by Ryan Ballengee on Aug 18, 2009 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions

watch it now, RB – I don’t think Obama has included a Syntax in his budget…so don’t say that word too loudly. :-)

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Aug 18, 2009 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Hey – they got an early Christmas present in Kansas when their good-for-nothing governor abandoned the office ! :-)

I know what you mean about sentences like those, Cairo. They assume everybody reading them is in the same Nationwide Tour universe as the writer and they don’t explain themselves very well sometimes.

The Duramed Futures Tour, I believe, has the same claim with their graduates.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Aug 18, 2009 1:25 PM EDT reply actions