ANSWERING THE UNASKED question is John Cook, a member of the PGA TOUR Policy Board: saying that the age-limit rule wasn't put into place because of Tryon, and wasn't done after Tryon sent in his entry fee for QSchool. Both of those statements are contrary to everything the media has been telling us for the past 3 months.

But I'm not sure even Cook's own statements don't contradict what he is saying. Cook was assistant golf coach last year at Tryon's high school (Cook's son was also on the team). Cook says: "after being around junior golf awhile and seeing some of the potential trouble on the horizon. And in August, Cook called Tryon's father to inform him of the decision. Somehow, this makes it look like the "potential trouble" that Cook saw all along was Tryon.