plaining about their pay, because in the golf world you have to earn your salary. Players aren't paid a salary like most sports, they have to win a tournament to earn it. From tournament to tournament they are struggling to make a living by doing what they love. The truth is that there is not a whole lot of money to be won on tour either. For an example Greg Norman is the top money winner of all time. Greg has raked in $11,936,443 in his entire career (Howard,12). Compare that to any other sport and you will see that the average baseball and basketball players make that within two or three years. Golfers are also working all year-round. They don't get to practice during the off-season, because there isn't one for them. Golfers work very hard in a very competitive sport. Other sports are competitive, but not in the same way that golf is. Golf is an individual sport, so they don't work with others. They don't have anyone to fall back on if they need it, it is all up to them. Other thing that makes golf so different than other sports is that it doesn't require that you are either huge, muscular, fast, or tall. Golf comes down to whether or not you can hit a little golf ball down a narrow fairway, onto a tightly guarded green, then to try and put that little ball into a four inch diameter hole. Golfers aren't treated the same way that other athletes are. Jack Nickalas, a well know golfer with ...
