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    A summer in Dornoch.

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Dec042009

Daily Beast Shocker: Golfers Play As Many As 20 Events A Year, Often Meet Future Wives At Tournaments!

Those are just two of the many stunning and profound revelations in Gerald Posner's laugh-out-loud  disaster of a story on the dark side of the PGA Tour. Excuse me, the "PGA" as he erroneously calls it.

This is the same reporter whose insights into the Woods' pre-nup renegotiations have been widely reported as fact:

As with the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball, golfers like Daly log a lot of time on the road, away from families, ensconced in deluxe hotel suites. A top golfer might do up to 20 one-week tournaments a year.

Who knew? Do they play home games too?

Caddies frequently pull the prettiest girls out of the autograph line, often offering a private chat with the pro. The caddy then often serves as the go-between. Players never give out their telephone number or contact information, instead leaning on the caddy as a trusted arranger. It partly explains why some caddies get paid so well—often, with a percentage of the winnings—to carry a bag and judge breaks on the green. For instance, Steve Williams, who is Tiger’s caddy, has been with him since 1999; Tiger even attended Williams’ 2005 wedding.

Imagine that! Letting a looper rub elbows with a higher class of people. Anything for your pimp would be the message?

“You’d be surprised if you check the bios of all the pros,” one caddie tells me, “how many say they met their wife at this or that tournament.” That doesn’t mean that every wife who met her pro golfing husband at a tournament was a groupie, but it’s another sign of how much social and extracurricular life is part of the pro tour.

Frankly, I don't know if I can ever look at the PGA Tour the same way ever again. I thought they were all in bed by 9!

My sources said that clubhouses sometimes resembled frat houses, with golfers exchanging graphic stories of the previous night’s escapades. Players talk about “the 19th hole,” or dub a girl willing to have anal sex a “double bogey.” A “water hole” is anyone who performs only oral sex.

Okay. Now that I hadn't heard before.

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Reader Comments (21)

Ohhh Mannnnn!!!! They keep this media onslought up and they are going to bomb golf back to the stone age, or at least to its standing in our society of the good ol' Walter Hagen days.

Ponte Vedra must be in full bunker mentality mode! It is just amazing that this one particular scandal has set an earthquake into motion. Daly couldn't rock it, but this is a 9 on the Richter-Woods scale.
12.4.2009 | Unregistered Commenterrjd
Mind = blown.
12.4.2009 | Unregistered Commentersodface
A double bogey on a waterhole would be a good time.
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterVwgolfer
Dan Jenkins to the white courtesy phone, please. We have some new terms for your next Bobby Joe Grooves masterpiece.
"often, with a percentage of the winnings"

This guy did his homework.
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterTighthead
Forgot to add that last Saturday I had two double bogeys on water holes. And I was alone. Oh, dear.
Wouldn't a double bogey be an unattractive conquest? Wouldn't "Double Eagle" be better?
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterThe O
An "Albatross" is lawyer who has never been near a golf tournament, writing about golf.
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterChuck
"Two of those interviewed claimed to 'know' that one of golf’s superstars, and his wife, were swingers, a rumor that persistently makes the rounds on the Internet and is repeated even by other golfers on the tour."
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterFrank
Nasty!
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterMiss Priss!
A good story (not this tripe) about golf groupies like have been written about NBA would be fun...how about on the LPGA and Champs. tours?

I'm fascinated by the sub-culture of sex and sports!!
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterCourt Jesper
Frank, great pull from the article. :)
I feel like I've been transported back to 1976 or so.
So were/are (!) there key parties? Dogleg rights? Driveable Par 4s? Perish the thought...
And what does 'doing' a tournament mean. As in, 'A top golfer might do up to 20 one-week tournaments a year.'
12.4.2009 | Unregistered Commenterdbh
pgatour.com - "Got what it takes? Play the official fantasy games of the PGA TOUR."

What's next, chatrooms?
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterStinger
Not good enough for Jenkins, Must be more Reilly Trash
12.4.2009 | Unregistered Commenterorchardist
Perhaps after Elin found out about Tiger's infidelity, she told him that she's been giving up double bogeys and waterholes to the pool boy. Upon hearing this, he chased her with a golf club and smashed out the windows of the Escalade. Now we're getting somewhere...
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterArj
The Onion's write-up actually had more verifiable facts, than did Gerald Posner's gossip-column:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/investigators_still_piecing
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterChuck
It seems they are in bed by nine, but in groups of nine.

Someone needs to be turned into a pillar of salt. Quickly. Does the Commish have a wife?

I agree with the ghost that Jenkins is the man for this job. By the way, he has been unusually silent this past week. Hmmm. And Geoff has reminded us of the elegance of Wodehouse several times. Another hmmmm.

Walk away everyone, and don't look back.
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterPickworth
@ The O:

Can't call it a double-eagle instead of a double-bogey. You'll never get a double eagle hitting it into the wrong hole.
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterRinger
Oh, my! So many double entendre possibilities!

And, as luck would have it, the book has already been written ( in 2005): "Life with a Swinger: Conversations off the tee with golf professionals and their wives".

With a forward by Tom Lehman, I kid you not..............
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterMichael C.
Pickworth--excellent
3 words--Remember Lot's Wife
12.4.2009 | Unregistered CommenterL.I.S.
Anakin, the chosen one
12.5.2009 | Unregistered CommenterRonald Montesano

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