“I just wanted something I earned."

It's good to see that the Champions Tour PAC and Policy Board feel their operation is in such good shape that it can shoot down a potentially massive feel-good story by denying Ken Green a major medical extension.

Jeff Rude reports:

“The disappointment is pretty strong,” said Green, 51, who had 13 months left of conditional exempt status through the career-victory category at the time of the accident. “I don’t know if I was putting too much on coming back in golf as a coping mechanism or what.”

Though the Tour’s Player Advisory Council previously had turned him down, Green said he had held out hope that the board “would do the right thing.” He said he would have received the extension under Tour regulations had he been fully instead of partially exempt.

Now the five-time PGA Tour winner says he plans to write tournaments for sponsor exemptions when he’s ready to play. Green, who walks with a prosthetic right leg, says he’s mindful he’ll get into “some” tournaments on sponsor invites because of his unique story.

“But who wants to beg every week?” he said. “I just wanted something I earned. I don’t understand what they were thinking. I could probably only play one year, anyway; that’s it. I’d never make the top 30 and stay on the Champions Tour.”