Entering the second week of the four week golf "playoff tournaments" (boy that sounds weird), golf fans and tv viewers don't seem that excited. This is just the first year for the new format, so it isn't time to rush to judgement, but thank goodness or else the Fed Ex Cup might be history.

Let's look at what has happened so far around golf's imitation of NASCAR's Chase for the Cup. First major thing ended up being Tiger Woods not playing in the first playoff golf tournament, The Barclays. Why should he? He is way ahead in points, doesn't need the money, and usually slows down this time of year.

Second, tv viewers didn't come in big numbers. A large portion of them must have been outside playing golf instead of watching it last weekend. The numbers were mediocre at best.

A lot of golfers that I talked to this weekend didn't even realize that the "playoffs" had begun. That tells you something about the awareness around this thing. But Johnny Miller says wait and see. He thinks a few tweaks here and there and the format will be successful.

Not so says The Atlanta Constitutions' Furman Bisher. He wrote an article recently that was titled "PGA's Fed Ex Cup Won't Fly." He apparently thinks that it will flop.

I mean most of us amateur golfers have been trained by the PGA Tour to start relaxing and getting ready for football on tv once the PGA Championship is over. Even the PGA's end of season Tour Championship has never been a big deal for golf fans.

But the PGA is trying to do something and the Fed Ex Cup is what they have come up with. My prediction? It will last three years with a change in format/guidelines every year and then will be pulled in favor of some other strange end of season shennanigans.

I'm just not sure that golf fans want a year end "big event" of any sort. Maybe only PGA commisioner Tim Finchem really wanted a "playoff".