Frank Did It!

Well, we can all breathe easier knowing that Frank Lickliter has secured his place on the PGA Tour for 2008. We can rest easy knowing that his well known and beloved scowl will be delighting galleries for yet another season. Now, I've never met the guy and there's no reason to believe that he is not, in fact, a wonderful human being.

That said, he is a golfer who makes it all too easy to dislike the game. He always seems either emotionless or irritable. Lickliter is the kind of player who seems to revel in his ability to be either anonymous or unpleasant all while making a heck of a lot of money not winning (or even contending in) significant tournaments.

But, there could be something positive that might come of all this. The tour can initiate a move toward reducing the number of exempt players from the now ridiculous 125 to 100 or, better yet, 75.

An exempt field of 75 would either weed out guys like Frank or motivate them to elevate their games during the season when it is supposed to count. Now, I have no expectations of this really happening, at least while the Tiger Gravy Train rolls on. Until then, we can look forward to have Frank's glaring face beaming down on us.