Word to the Wise, FedEx Cup Should Bag Lavish Prize

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Paul CaseyThe FedEx Cup will be decided this weekend. My money's on Dale Earnhardt Jr.

What's that? Junior didn't make the 36-hole cut in the Sprint Cup?

Pardon my ignorance. It's hard to keep all those cups straight this time of year. Even a cup expert like Tiger Woods would have a hard time. FedEx is the one that has tried to buy our affection with a grand prize worthy of blaring Publisher's Clearinghouse trumpets:

$10 million!

If the FedEx Cup really wants to win hearts and minds, it needs to do something crazy. Give away the money.

Give it charity, give it to a lucky fan plucked out of the gallery, rent a helicopter and dump 10 million $1 bills over an Atlanta housing project. Anything would be better than presenting it to a golfer who already owns a Lear jet.

It's easy for me to be noble and give away somebody else's money. I should just run for Congress, only I'm not playing the Class Envy card.

 

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