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Eamon Lynch

Lynch: Field sizes are a coming flashpoint on the PGA Tour, and the WM Phoenix Open shows why

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Lee Iacocca, the iconic former president of the Ford Motor Company, once said that executives are often presented with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems, the kind of homespun aphorism you’d expect from a man who only had to navigate challenges like exploding Pintos rather than the mercurial demands of PGA Tour stars.

The quest to find opportunity amid insoluble problems has been turning Jay Monahan’s altar-boy coif from silver to white as he tries to shape the PGA Tour schedule – designated events and not – around constituencies that are always competing but not always convivial.

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