If you are a sports fan, September is arguably the best month of the year.  Baseball races for the playoffs are going down to the wire.  College and professional football are back.  If you are a fan of the English Premier League, they’ve got your weekend mornings covered.  Even basketball and hockey start their pre-season.

Golf, while not their “regular season,” also has excitement.

Depending on the year, you will have the Ryder Cup (the most exciting golf event in my view), or both the Solheim Cup and President’s Cup to grab your attention.

While the Solheim Cup is the pinnacle of women’s golf, it still does not garner the same attention from the casual fan.  With the recent ratings growth of women’s sports overall, I don’t see those matches staying in the shadows much longer.

Like everything else in men’s professional golf, the separation of the PGA TOUR and LIV Golf has made both the Ryder Cup and the President’s Cup complicated.

No one likes the fact that players like Ian Poulter or Bryson DeChambeau are not eligible, at least for now.  With no formal agreement between the two sides, it is safe to say that those players and others will not be playing in the bi-annual events anytime soon.

The semi-popular “made for TV” The Match is offering something tasty later this year with the PGA team of Scotty Scheffler and Rory McIlroy facing off against the LIV team of Brooks Koepka and Bryson in Las Vegas this December, but let’s face it, those four playing at night on the Strip is not the same as three days of intense competition.

One of the best golf quotes I’ve ever hear is “a bad shot is nothing more than an opportunity to hit a great shot on the next one.”

So here we sit, after the players, the PIF and the TOUR hitting a “bad shot” with an opportunity to hit the best shot since Tiger hit the 6 iron out of the bunker from 213 yards on the 72^nd hole of the 2000 Canadian Open.

Now is the time to rethink these Cup matches.

The PGA of America and the DP World Tour own the rights to the Ryder Cup.  The PGA TOUR owns the President’s Cup.  The Solheim Cup is an LPGA property.  That means there is room for another cup.  This one owned by everyone.

This makes more sense than one would think.

The PIF has long been a supporter of the LPGA and the Ladies European Tour via their oil company Aramco.  The Tour and LIV golf are trying to find some common ground.  The PGA of America will never relinquish their best money maker, the Ryder Cup and the DP World Tour still wants to be a part of the story.

So, lets make another cup that is men and women together and let all of the organizations select the best players from their groups as eligible for a “draft.”

This is how I envision it working.  Two teams, one from North America and one from the rest of the word, would be made up of 16 players: 8 men and 8 women.  Yes, I put Canada and Mexico with the USA for this one but if you are going to let Europe and the rest of the world teams play together, the US can’t go it alone.  Each organization gets to present 25 players as eligible for a draft based on whatever points system they choose.  The captains of each team would be voted on by every eligible player of all the different tours.  The captain would be able to make up the assistant captains, but one must come from each of the tours.  Those captains and assistants would then “draft” their team from the list of eligible players.  There would be no minimums from any tour other than there must be 8 men and 8 women.

Of course, there might be times where politics could take over and the captain may pick someone from their tour over someone from a rival tour but why is that any different than when a captain picks a friend over a player they are not that close too?

Call it the World Cup.  Greg Norman would finally get what he always wanted.

I envision this cup being played after the Ryder Cup but in the same year.  That way, the LPGA players would be playing a cup every year and every men’s tour would have at least one event every year and golf would have not one but two fall events that garner a massive TV audience.

To me it seems not only interesting but logical and plausible.  Of course, that probably means it will never happen.