the income an athlete makes is depend on the amount of money the fans contirubute to the sport.
golfers are for themost part well-off individuals, and they purchase 2 thousand dollar sets of golf clubs, boxes of golf balls for 50 dollars, golf clothes for 100 a piece, golf shoes as high as 200... not tomention the green feas at a nice course like pebble beach can be as high as 300....... tickets to a professional tourney, especially a major, are very pricey. few hundred dollars easy, and no guaranteed views of the golfers.
That because golf is primarily a sport for the privledged. Why do you think many of the country clubs were and still are "good ol boy" clubs. And they want to maintain that. The majority of people who play golf are older men and heads corps. As as been told to me, deals go down on the green, if you want
make it it business, learn golf. Golf is a life time sport like tennis, doesn't take much effort to do, but more money to fund. Rich people don't like to do physical labor ( why do think they have slaves or servants)
when I was 8 yrs old I had a business where I would go to the golf course behind my house and find golf balls that were left there. I would clean them up and sell them for $12 for a dozen to one of my fathers older co- workers. I no real interest in golf, I like the carts more, and money even more. I even got in trouble being to zealous in finding golf balls ( taking them after they had been hit).
But what I did notice is that only old people played golf--not as strenous as basketball, they won't get a stroke, and most older people tend to have money to burn after the kids leave and they are retired. Now bodybuilding is pretty much a young mans game.
Great post. Everyone stop whining cause someone in a real sport makes alot of money. Bodybuilders dont work hard. When you are on 3g of test a week working out isnt really hard.
even still it's hard, especially if you are not on anything. Plus as you know, the discipline is second to none, that's why you see so many Americans flunk out in losing weight and take the shortcuts, because they lack the discipline. Also to the truly dedicated, they become meathead who know only bodybuilding. And lastly, just like Flex Wheeler had stated, Every sport has to come into the bodybuilding world, whether it's boxing, football, and yes, as you saw Tiger's schedule, even top golfers. Bodybuilder don't have to step into their realms
What you are confusing is the level of intesity, which some bodybuilders may lack and rely more on the drugs. I think we know that Lee Haney, Dorian, Ronnie, Shawn Ray, Chris Cormier to name a fe are know for their intense training regimes.
