Heavy rains on the East Coast are making it difficult for the PGA Tour to complete this past weekend’s Booz Allen Golf Tournament that is being played just outside Washington, D.C. on the Tournament Players Course at Avenel in Potomac, MD. But according to this Thomas Boswell/Washington Post article, the rain is the least of the tournament’s problems:

Golf is the game of sportsmanship and proper manners, the sport that exemplifies respect for others. We even use it to teach values to kids, to instill the idea that conscience defines character.
So this is a week for golf — at least the crass, ungrateful, traveling-circus PGA Tour version — to hang its head in shame.
It’s no accident that all of the world’s four major championships are run by organizations other than the PGA Tour. The tour keeps pumping its own Players Championship to join the elite. But it’ll never happen — not as long as the tour humiliates itself, shows its true colors and drives itself down the scale of social respectability with disasters such as the one it is perpetrating in Washington this week.
Even a golf tournament deserves a decent burial. The funeral for the summer pro golf stop in Washington is being held at TPC Avenel this week. The PGA Tour didn’t even have the decency to close the casket.

Geez, sort of makes the well-chronicled problems of the Shell Houston Open (see here, here and here) seem rather tame in comparison, eh?
By the way, given the fact that the problems with the Washington and Houston professional tournaments are not isolated, does anyone else have the feeling that the PGA Tour is heading for serious trouble?