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.
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Reader Comments (21)
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.
This guy did his homework.
I'm fascinated by the sub-culture of sex and sports!!
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.'
What's next, chatrooms?
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/investigators_still_piecing
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.
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.
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..............
3 words--Remember Lot's Wife