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Tom Edrington

Tom Edrington spent the first 10 years of his misguided youth as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune. His career brought him face to face with many of sports greatest stars -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Don Shula, countless Hall of Fame NFL stars, more PGA Tour players than he can count. In 1980 he was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America for writing the best news story that year, his coverage of Jack Nicklaus' U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol. Today, 36 years later, golf is still a great part of his life, thanks to competitive playing days and the wonderful people he has met on this fabulous journey.

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    baxter cepeda

    I think what your trying to say is maybe we should be getting on Monahans good side ?

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      Tom Edrington

      I think everyone that sees this will say: “hey I just wanna be a Player-Director for one year!

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        wayner

        Are you sure that those numbers for Player-Directors do not also include tournament earnings? Streelman and Hoffman each earned about $1.4M on the tour in 2018 according to PGATour.com. Wagner was $700k. Those numbers are very close to what you report from the form 990.

        Form 990 is likely calendar year 2018 earnings whereas I assume the PGATour info is for the “wraparound” season

        If you look at the 2017 Form 990 you will see that Hoffman earned $4.36M and in 2017 his tour earnings were $4.16M.

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          Tom Edrington

          It appears they were given a separate 1099 for their “Player-Director” earnings…..I do know Davis Love III was receiving in the neighborhood of 500k when we reviewed it a year ago.

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    larry260

    Where would they be IF they had to pay at least minimum wage to everyone that works at their tournaments….heck they even CHARGE people to be volunteers….then tell them they are getting a shirt and hat (which is a uniform they must wear like a lot of jobs)….I think every volunteer who stands out on the course for 5 to 7 hours or drives people around for 8 hours should be given a copy of what some of these PGA people get paid….example, I was marshaling at a PGA tournament in 90 degree afternoon weather and the guy working with me went over and grabbed a gator aid out of a cooler we had been keeping ice on and full of drinks all day for the caddies and players and he gets yelled out by some idiot sitting a cart with PGA stickers on it, that is for players not marshals…needless to say they were two marshals short the next day.

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      Tom Edrington

      Larry: The volunteers have to BUY those uniforms and they charge them retail!

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        baxter cepeda

        A lot of these greedy practices are left overs from much more humble times for big time golf.

        To be fair At pebble for the usga I heard the same type stories from volunteers. Even for lpga events, people jump thru hoops to volunteer for 20$/day events. When You can often get free tix.

        Changing topics a bit…
        Many golf events in hot weather do not provide water for paying fans.
        Walking around cordavalle for the women’s US open when Anna won I literally thought fans were just gonna start dropping from heat stroke; including myself. They were better at Pebble with that but not much, usga had one main area to get hydrated.
        We spent that day at the us women’s open trying to stay alive while not getting price gouged for water. Of course you cannot go in with water. Convenient.

        It’s all really disappointing; The golf tours need to start Taking better care of their volunteers and fans; hopefully things change when normalcy resumes.

        The tours are spending ridiculous money for unreliable corona testing, but then get cheap with water for fans, volunteers; and now with their long time staff…all while the Commish makes 7 million.

        Despite all the money Making volunteers spend money and not providing water to paying fans is shameless. But again, it’s not just the pga tour…It’s all of them.

        All except the Masters of course …patrons don’t even think about water because everything it is so fairly priced. Volunteering at the Masters is challenging but seems well worth it talking to those guys.

        At the masters Everyone is excited to buy things because everything is so reasonable. Patrons end up spending fortunes and having a great experience.

        It’s funny how everyone knows The Masters are the best, golf or anything, but no one really goes out of their way to copy that fan experience model. Except Maybe little league baseball.

        Paying the pga tour players board seems like a conflict of interest. I know the players board isn’t a players union but it feels like if Goodell Cut checks for nflpa pres JC Tretter.

        I definitely learned something in this article. I always thought those players did that out of the goodness of their hearts…Boy was I wrong.

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          Tom Edrington

          A lot to absorb there Baxter, kind like the tour’s tax, or should we say “non-tax” return…..Yeah, volunteers should quit volunteering…at the least, they should get their uniforms gratis….instead, they charge them retail…no, I agree with all your observations….yes, Augusta DOES value its patrons….a tradition unlike any other….for sure.

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