Is golf a sport that's truly played by gentlemen?
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by: JackBehanti257
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Golf, when it started, and no one understands for sure when that was, was called a gentlemen's sport. This was mostly because only gentlemen in the upper class in Europe could pay for the time or the funds to play the game. Once the sport was launched into America it kept the connotation because on the same reason, on the other hand I feel like that's starting to alter for the reason that of distinctive things that have occurred within the previous 10 to twenty many years. 1st let's look at what the sport was like inside the starting on this country. You had just a handful of gentlemen playing the game, some for cash and some for fun. Those that played it for money was mostly betting about the sport amongst themselves and perhaps with a couple of other rich buddies looking on, they had been known as professional golfers. These that played the sport for fun sometimes with every other along with other times with the professional golfers, had been known as armature golfers. Probably the most notable 1 of these and also the most famous, even to this day, was Bobby Jones. I think we all know who he was. No matter what their position was most all of them had a task or profession that they produced the majority of their living off of. I was born in 1940 in Augusta, Georgia whereas nearly all of you understand is exactly where Bobby Jones developed and built the Augusta Nationwide golf program and began "The Masters" golf tournament. In the time I was about 13 years old till this day I've observed many people tournaments in person and people that I didn't attend I watched on Television. I've met a great deal of the golfers personally. I was a pharmacist and had a pharmacy close to the Augusta National Golf Course. Plenty of the golfers and other celebrities would come into my store to acquire things which includes prescriptions and OTC medication in the evening and I would get to meet them and speak to them. These incorporated Jack Nicholas, Fuzzy Zoeller, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer, and a lot of other people. The majority of these golfers I just mentioned produced an excellent dwelling from golf and most likely didn't have to have another occupation inside the off season. However golfers like other people I met such as Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Sam Sneed along with a great several other people typically had other earnings to the facet to assistance their game of golf. In the course of people early years on the Masters lots of the golfers did make a great dwelling in the sport, nevertheless they needed to be within the top few golfers inside the nation just to obtain a decent income from the sport. Now let's take a look at the very last ten to 15 or quite a few twenty many years. The sport has graduated to the level exactly where the major couple of are producing within the millions and even most within the leading 50 to 100 golfers on the PGA Tour are producing six figure incomes. With this particular kind of earnings they're genuinely professionals. On the other hand, some thing else has arrive together with this rise in winnings and I think that this really is what has leads to the game to turn out to be an activity rather than a "Gentlemen's Game". By way of the media of Tv along with other communication usually means the gamers inside the activity have turn out to be celebrities and therefore the Gentlemen's Game is starting to be a large activity with a lot of dollars to be made in It and as a result persons from all walks of existence is now playing golf and a great deal of the young gamers are hoping to create it towards the PGA Tour. The sport has become as big as Pro Football, baseball, and basketball however, for the retail organization it has grow to be larger due to the fact of all of the gear required to play the sport. Today you see a good deal a lot more golf programs, a whole lot much more golf shops (store front and on line) than any from the other sports. For these reasons I believe that Golf is an "Average Joe's" game because a great offer of men and women in the USA and all over the world play it. Tiger Wood's current family complications have put some negative mild around the game and I hope that it will cease at that. I feel that the media has triggered a lot of the poor mild even so just the quantity of dollars involved within the sport also tends to carry out the worst in the media protection. They often desire to tell the poor tales that observe any activity. I Just hope that it will quit correct here and we will not see any extra of this detrimental protection from the activity. If this occurs it will keep some air of a "Gentlemen's Game" despite the fact that a great deal additional that just gentlemen are playing it these days.
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