The 'Same, Previous, Following Week Tournaments' pull-down menu

Something that GolfInvestors offers users that is not seen on other golf sites is a pull-down menu on the tournament pages called the "Same, Previous, Following Week Tournaments" pull-down menu. This pull-down menu is seen on a tournament's page and presents to users a list of tournaments that were playing during the current, previous, and following weeks of the tournament they are viewing. This feature allows users to be able to flip through and see what other tournaments were played during the same time the tournament they are viewing was played. As well, they can see a list of tournaments played in the previous week and the following week.

Here is a sample of the contents of the "Same, Previous, Following Week Tournaments" pull-down menu when viewing the 2006 FBR Open (Feb 2-5, 2006) tournament page:

Same Week Tournaments
...FBR Open
...Dubai Desert Classic
Previous Week Tournaments
...Buick Invitational
...The Commercial Bank Qatar Masters
...Movistar Panama Championship
...Turtle Bay Championship
Following Week Tournaments
...AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am
...Johnnie Walker Classic
...Wendy's Champions Skins Game

Source url: http://golfinvestors.com/tournaments/tournament.php?id=1155 (2006 FBR Open)

The contents of the pull-down menu tells the user that the Dubai Desert Classic is also being played during the same week of the FBR Open. As well, the Buick Invitational, The Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, the Movistar Panama Championship, and the Turtle Bay Championshiop were played in the week leading up to the FBR Open. Then it tells the user the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am, the Johnnie Walker Classic, and the Wendy's Champions Skins Game were played the week after the FBR Open.

By selecting any of these tournaments in the pull-down menu the user is able to quickly go to the details of these tournaments. This is handy to users if they are viewing a current week's tournament as they are able to quickly jump to the web page of these other relevant tournaments. It is even more handy when doing research on historical tournaments to see what tournaments were played in the current, following, and previous weeks of the tournament they are viewing. It gives the user a perspective of the tournament results, not to mention an easy and quick means to get information without having to go back to the entire tournament schedule list page.

This is just a minor feature added to the GolfInvestors site last year to help users use the site to research and quickly navigate through the site to find the information they are looking for.

Is this feature useful? Or is it "bloating" the Gi site?