Tim Finchem: "I don’t think there is any down side to any particular time that I step aside.”

For a guy who thinks people are dinosaurs when they turn 60, 68-year-old PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem sure doesn’t sound like he’s wanting to leave.

Rex Hoggard talked to the Commish last week at the Memorial.

“We haven’t made any final decision yet. The transition planning is coming along very nicely,” Finchem told GolfChannel.com. “We have a really strong group so I don’t think there is any down side to any particular time that I step aside.”

We! So much for the independent officers on the policy board. Besides, all is well. Though what’s this TSA Pre-Check brochure I keep getting under my windshield wiper? The airports really make you take your shoes off if you don’t have it? And you can have a boarding pass on your phone?

“There are a couple of things I’m working on that I’d rather get a little further down the track and they are big things, so it’s a little early to say where they are going to be,” Finchem said.

“I don’t have to see them through, but I’d like to get both of them on the right track and I want to work with Jay in a couple of areas, so how that pans out in terms of time I’m not quite certain yet.”

Network out clause? The current deals with CBS, NBC and Golf Channel run through 2021, but there is a suspicion that the tour can opt out of the broadcast network portion after 2017.

Hoggard says the projects most likely center around the FedExCup renewal. No one said these were easy projects.