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| AT&T NATIONAL Men’s Golf Betting Preview |
At the start of the 2007 PGA season, it appeared that The International, the PGA's lone stop in Colorado, would be gearing up to host its 21st annual golf tournament. However, doubts began to arise about the tournament's future very early on in the season as the search for a corporate sponsor was at a stand-still. On February 8, 2007, tournament director Greg Vickers announced that the 2007 International would not be played, primarily due to the lack of corporate sponsorship. As soon as the date opened up on the PGA Tour calendar, Tiger Woods, who has expressed a desire to host a tournament in the past, entered into discussions with the PGA Tour. His goal was to create an exclusive tournament that would not only fill this year's void left by the demise of The International, but for years to come. On March 7, with less than one month of negotiations behind the two parties, Tiger Woods and the PGA Tour announced that the Washington D.C. area would play host to the Inaugural AT&T National. The event took over for the Booz Allen Classic which folded after the July 2006 event after a 39 year run with 27 of those in the Washington D.C. area. The 2007 event was played at The Congressional Country Club in nearby Bethesda, MD. Despite the short time in getting it ready, the first year went off well and it looked like the future of this event was going to be great. Unfortunely things changed the following year as Tiger Woods had surgery right before the event and was not only able to play but he couldn't even attend the event. He did return the next year and won. The event had a great run at Congressional and with it holding the U.S. Open in 2011 it needed to rebuild it's greens. So the AT&T National moved last year to allow Congressional to get ready for the Open and also this year while holding the U.S. Open. It moved to the Philadelphia area and Aronimink, one of golf's hidden gems. The tournament is then contracted to come back to Congressional next for three years. So Tiger has talked but again he really didn't say anything. Woods has the knack of avoiding anything in which he has to give a yes and no answer and he did it by saying that he wasn't if he was playing in the British Open. Doesn't matter that the event is just 16 days away, he wouldn't give anything other than he was playing it by ear. Gosh Tiger, frustrate your fans and media even more with such a great answer. Frankly he is avoiding what the answer is going to be that he won't be going. Look for the answer to come down Tuesday and Wednesday on his favorite vehicle of telling news, the internet. Tiger will never learn that he is still big and has to give back. Fans really don't want to hear that it's up in the air. He hasn't hit a ball since the Players (yes he has putted) and frankly things were in terrible shape after the Masters and at the Players. If he does show up and try to play with very little practice it will again be an embarrassing moment for the man who says all the time that he will only play if he thinks he can win. Come on Tiger, you think that you can win in the coming weeks? If you think so, I have some swamp land that I can sell you. Have to say that this event has lost a lot of the luster that it had in 2007. If you had to stick a finger as the biggest problem it's probably the date. With it being fourth of July weekend and lot of players want to spend time at home with the family. Also we are about to start of ten week stretch in which two majors, one WGC event and four FedEx Cup playoffs are about to be played. Players have to take some time off so this is a good time. Frankly I would really like a new feel to the FedEx Cup playoffs. Right now we will see not only the Barclays but the BMW changing venues, why not change events. Why can't the AT&T National be a FedEx Cup playoff event one out of every four years? Why can't the tour switch these events around, make Barclay's a regular event and move it to this date. Just a thought to spread the wealth around a bit. This event may not have the fanfare of other events, but it is still a must-see golf tournament for the holiday weekend. 
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Golf fans will have no shortage of great events for this weekend as the Alstom Open de France gets underway.
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