"Our players are going to have to get used to, or better, learn to like, playing overseas."

A somewhat revealing comment from PGA Tour VP Ty Votaw in John Paul Newport's Saturday column asking whether American's should be playing around the world more:

But most of the new opportunities will be in Asia, where the PGA Tour this year is co-sponsoring two events: a new one in Malaysia in October and the HSBC Champions in Shanghai in November.

"Obviously our players are going to have to get used to, or better, learn to like, playing overseas," said Ty Votaw, the Tour's executive vice president for communications and international affairs. If, as many expect, golf takes off in China the way it has in the last 20 years in South Korea and before that in Japan, they will not lack for competition