"Does the PGA Tour suffer? Not necessarily."

Doug Ferguson offers this strong counterpoint to the euphoria over the European Tour's "Race to Dubai" and talk of player defections:

Tiger Woods does not plan to join. What the last four months have shown is that if Woods doesn't play, does anyone care?

And while $20 million sounds like a lot in Europe, the FedExCup pays $35 million in bonus money, with four $7 million tournaments leading up to that. It still pays to play on the PGA Tour, which is why so many Europeans do.