Sizing up the Tour Championship TV coverage


We talk all the time about the FedEx Cup being impossible to figure out, and the playoff system being a snoozefest. But for at least one afternoon, television viewers got exactly what they'd been hoping for since the tour put the playoffs in place back in 2007: some high drama that culminated with a must-see three-hole playoff between Bill Haas and Hunter Mahan.
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"We talked about it all week long, all season long," NBC's Dan Hick said. " Can you candle this kind of pressure? Not only for just the $10 million, but also the FedEx Cup, Tour Championship, and then $11.44 million that comes with it. If he makes this, the entire thing is Bill Haas'."
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Haas, of course, went on to make the putt and walk away with the FedEx Cup title. While, it was the third time in FedEx Cup history that the Tour Championship winner also hoisted the playoff trophy, there was something different about this year's finish.