Dave B
Q-School Graduate
Golf is like any other sport, you only get out of it what you are prepared to put in. I've fished at the top level for years, fully sponsored but what many people don't seem to appreciate is the amount of hard work, dedication and pressure it takes to get there.
From the outside it looks easy but who looks at the magazine articles, consultancy work, sponsorship oblogations including PR work, tournaments and then the pressure that comes with traveling being away, playing week in, week out knowing that if you have a bad run, or injury you may never recover or get back to the same form.
It is a cut throat business and to get to tornament/exhibition standard you have to be good enough to get into to the top 0.0005% assuming we have 18 professionals in the uk on the circuit who make more than £1M in any one year.
You also have to remember many of these guys have to deduct their expenses which will include a management team and caddy as well as tournament fees and travelling expenses from their winnings.
To get there they need to invest heavily in their own belief and potential and how many ordinary people would do that if it risked everything. Not many!
They work very hard to get there and without them setting the standard and demanding the best equipment to give them an edge the golf industry and sport itself would not be where it is.
Is there too much money in it, as long as the sponsors, TV and Media keep on putting in the funds to secure the events and coverage while making it affordable to the viewing public I don't think so.
Well paid,yes overpaid - No as they deserve it for getting there by self belief determination, dedication and inspiring everyone else who picks up a golf club to be better than what they were before they picked up a club.
From the outside it looks easy but who looks at the magazine articles, consultancy work, sponsorship oblogations including PR work, tournaments and then the pressure that comes with traveling being away, playing week in, week out knowing that if you have a bad run, or injury you may never recover or get back to the same form.
It is a cut throat business and to get to tornament/exhibition standard you have to be good enough to get into to the top 0.0005% assuming we have 18 professionals in the uk on the circuit who make more than £1M in any one year.
You also have to remember many of these guys have to deduct their expenses which will include a management team and caddy as well as tournament fees and travelling expenses from their winnings.
To get there they need to invest heavily in their own belief and potential and how many ordinary people would do that if it risked everything. Not many!
They work very hard to get there and without them setting the standard and demanding the best equipment to give them an edge the golf industry and sport itself would not be where it is.
Is there too much money in it, as long as the sponsors, TV and Media keep on putting in the funds to secure the events and coverage while making it affordable to the viewing public I don't think so.
Well paid,yes overpaid - No as they deserve it for getting there by self belief determination, dedication and inspiring everyone else who picks up a golf club to be better than what they were before they picked up a club.
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