“It’s been passed, but I think we’re going to backtrack on it."

It's not often that Tim Finchem shepherds an initiative through his policy board and they reject it, but Sean Martin reports that the PGA Tour's "designated event" policy designed to help out some struggling events by mandating occasional appearances is about to die on arrival.

“When everybody speaks their piece, it turns out, let’s not rock the boat,” Love said. “Let’s just ask guys to do it, and once they see the benefit, they’ll keep doing it.”

“Designated events” would’ve required the PGA Tour’s top players to play one or two of a handful of pre-determined tournaments that have struggled to attract stars in recent years.

The Tour already asks players to voluntarily play in struggling events, Love said. The proposal would’ve included punishment for failure to comply. Now, the initiative will come without penalty.

Love, the host of the inaugural McGladrey Classic last month in Sea Island, Ga., said he would not want his event to be “designated’’ because of the resulting stigma.

“We wouldn’t want to be designated,” Love said. “ ‘Tiger played XYZ, but they made him’ ’’ Love said. “That’s going to look bad, even though that’ll sell tickets.”

And we know with the PGA Tour that vanity supercedes common sense every time!.