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AFTER WRESTLING WITH DECISION, FINCHEM DECIDES TO PLAY

          A brief memorial service to honor Payne Stewart took
     place this morning at 8:45am ET on the first tee of the Tour
     Championship in Houston.  Tom Lehman delivered a eulogy and
     a lone bagpiper walked the first fairway in a dense fog. 
     ESPN carried some of the service live, while ABC's "GMA"
     also went live with some of the service (THE DAILY).  
          THE RIGHT MOVE? Davis Love III said "some people
     question whether we should be playing this tournament" after
     Stewart's death: "I questioned should we play. ... But the
     best thing the tour can do is to show its support for Payne
     and his family."  Love added, "My concern is, once we get to
     Orlando [for Stewart's memorial service on Friday] and see
     Tracey [Stewart] and the kids, am I going to want to come
     back and play golf?  I don't know."  But PGA Tour
     Commissioner Tim Finchem said, "If we're not playing golf, I
     don't know how else we are able to honor Payne's life.  If
     we're not playing, what forum can we use to remind people
     about Payne and what he was all about?" (HOUSTON CHRONICLE,
     10/28). Finchem said that there "never was any consideration
     of postponing or canceling" the event. Finchem: "In a short
     period of time, we looked at every conceivable alternative. 
     We concluded that given all the various factors ... we
     determined this course of action.  I suspect it could be
     second-guessed, but it doesn't really matter at this point. 
     It's our course of action, and frankly, we are very
     comfortable with it."  The tour "has not decided how it will
     honor" Stewart's memory (WASHINGTON POST, 10/28).  The
     $81,000 check for last place in the Tour Championship will
     be transferred to Stewart's estate (FL TIMES-UNION, 10/28).

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