Funk Wins One for the Senior Circuit
Fred Funk kept the magic alive for the 50-and-over crowd by winning the Mayakoba Classic in Mexico this past weekend. Note that this tournament was not a Champions Tour event, but a regular PGA Tour event, and he beat all the flat-bellies again. Now granted, this was a watered-down field and didn’t have some of the top players on the regular tour, but you still have a 50-year-old beating up on the kids.
This is the reason Funk wants to continue to play the regular tour. He feels that he can be very competitive on certain tracks and this bears it out. I remember when Jack Nicklaus won the Masters in 1986; he was 46 and you”d-a-thought he had one foot in the grave back then. There was such a huge deal made about his age, but now it almost (but not quite) seems to lost a little significance simply because it’s not that difficult to play very good golf at 46. And Fred Funk won the Players Championship at 49.
I do think someone will in fact win a major at 50 because today’s tecnology will allow that to happen. And if it’s not an over-powering course, then it it won’t be that unusual.