Millions to be taken – Golf Planet

New Zealander Frank Nobilo, once a strong golfer (14 successes) and now a well-rated commentator on NBC television, believed that golfers’ salaries were too high. The outing sparked a lot of talk.

By Philip B. Herman, in Dubai

Nobilo can no longer bear to live with sporting talent that is becoming more and more crazy almost everywhere, bordering on ridiculousness when it comes to footballers.

For three years, it’s been golf’s turn to sink into the dollar. In the 1970s and 1980s, presidents were called Faldo, Langer or Ballesteros – This means level – andFrench Open It was still a reference, marking great golf writers with legendary winners, just as Lancôme Or theEuropean Master.

When one of these giants (Tony Jacklin) who won the general classification of the 1973 season, put a check in his bag for around 30,000 euros. Money did not bring happiness to the club, driver or club. Class, yes.

flashy

Ten years later, Nick Faldo put his name on the same honor roll, and with each subsequent ten year period, Montgomery, Els, Stinson, McIlroyThe Northern Irish champions are ready to do it again on Sunday.

Here, it took half a century, with Jacqueline rising from 30,000 to ten million shared by just 50 finalists, the best season, and still being rewarded with another ten million with the help of Rolex.

Thus, the Geneva watchmaker completes its 2023 injection with a new multi-million dollar addition, without taking into account the enormous budget incurred by its multiple sponsors, Majors, Ryder And Presidents Cup Concept.

Young shoots

The world of junior golf, a niche sport, the public says, though it is, individually, the most played in the world, and the game of the rich add the same, has thus become mad. Is it serious, doctor?

It was a leisure activity for the well-heeled bourgeoisie, and was certainly isolated here and there, once established outside the Anglo-Saxon countries. Fortunately, increasingly hardworking young shoots are helping to give it a different look today.

If you were in Marco Simone Golf and country club At the 44th Ryder Cup last September in Rome, or in Paris in 2018 in front of a television screen, golf’s rejuvenation is evident in an atmosphere that will thrill old beards.

Which is much better, even if this maze also stimulates carts laden with dollars. Not in your pockets, nor in ours, but on professional circuits that suffer from a noticeable imbalance, not to mention a gap, between men’s and women’s golf.

Norman shake

Until the turn of the 21st century, golf was a heterosexual sport, despite its course gods. Palmer to Nicklaus Or Ballesteros among others, keep it clean, and keep his wallet full.

Since then, year after year, professional golf no longer knows what dollar, euro, yen, pound or yuan to devote itself to. The decent limits jump one after another, and the fortunes flatter the players who run the shop without being happier, or so pampered, that they, much less their agents, are the axes of this financial revolution passing through their pockets…

All have broken the bank since then Greg Norman He came to get involved in the endless dollar pit that put Cheney in the stable, as the Swiss say. “Whorehouse” in French, something the French six were rewarded with for their brilliant season and invited to compete for a piece of the grand prize at stake in the Dubai final, does not matter to them at all.

Top six tricolors

Six, a happy record. Event recovery If results are present, places on PGA Tour 2024In theBritish Openin players For the top ten on Sunday they have not yet qualified. There is nothing that these top six players can’t beat. If they are there, For your impurity, Perez, Pavon, warrior, Rosner And Brown color Know how and why.

So let’s not be picky. You have to live with the times, the colleague whispered to me in the press room.