WHY DO GOLFERS MAKE MORE MONEY THAN ALL OTHER ATHLETES?

[bigkubby]

lmao that sure helped also john daly could show every getbigger a thing or two tha man was a fattass , but he was a pimp and loved by everyone. also i saw him having dinner in la quinta ca for the bob hope chrysler classic and he had a hott ass escort sitting on his lap and he used to go to this local club in the hidden vip section and would have have women serve him topless. 

[Flex 215]

Minor league ballplayer making $50,000  >  Pro golfer making $250,000

       If you are on Tour and not yet good enough to have several sponsers, $ 250,000 will not go far.  By the time they make the PGA tour, most golfers have their equipment at least provided by sponsers.  But many still have to pay their own airfare and hotels, as well as food and maybe a car rental too.  This gets very expensive for a 9 or 10 month season, not to mention if you also have a permanent residence to either pay rent or mortgage on.  Golfers are at a stop from Wed thru Sun, paying for meals and hotel, and then need to travel to the next stop on tour.

       Plus, each golfer either pays their caddie 10% of earnings or 7% plus the caddie's travel expenses.  The bottom rung golfers' caddies usually choose 7% and expenses, as its a better deal for them.  While Tiger or Phil's caddie would rather get 10% of their much bigger earnings and pay their own way.  So the golfer barely qualifying for the tour has to pay both his and his caddie's travel expenses.

       If you're a Triple-A player you get around $30 a day meal money, plus usually some kind of spread after the games, just not as good as the majors.  All minor leaguers have their travel payed for by the team,  sometimes plane sometimes bus, but never out of the player's pocket. Unless he misses the plane or bus and has to make his own arrangements.  And hotels are also payed by the team.

[bigkubby]

hey flex where do you come up with 250,000? right now its at 623,824 and just a little more than 250,000 but yes it does get expensive but thats not including there sponsorships  lets get that straight

[funk51]

Good point, fortunately there are more and more golf courses that work with environmentalists to have a positive impact on the land they are built on. In most European countries you would not get a planning permission for a golf course otherwise.

In terms of feeding the homeless I don't really see the connection to golf. The amount of (perfectly good) food that is thrown away in industrialised countries every day would be more than sufficient to feed the homeless. No need to close any golf courses for that.

good point about the food thrown away, but i'd like to see giant houses put up on golf courses for the poor people.

[bigkubby]

good point about the food thrown away, but i'd like to see giant houses put up on golf courses for the poor people.

sorry bud but the homeless need to feed thet homless,hope this helped

[Flex 215]

hey flex where do you come up with 250,000? right now its at 623,824 and just a little more than 250,000 but yes it does get expensive but thats not including there sponsorships  lets get that straight

          I knew a caddy back in the early 90's and he told me his golfer had to make over $100,000 to break even.  Didn't really look up any numbers, just guessed for inflation.

          Is $623,824 the average money earning for all the pros on tour?  I would think one could make less than that without a sponser and still not lose money. Plus they all have some kind of sponser, at least for their equipment, so the companies can brag how many tour players use their stuff.

         In MLB, the minimum salary is about $430,000, with all travel expenses and equipment paid, and over $100 a day meal money. Plus free food and supps( at least legal ones ) before the game, and really nice spreads of food and sometimes beer and liquor after the game.  I am sure the average major league salary is over 1 million, probably closer to 2 million.

         I don't know the average minor league salary, but no real expenses for the players.  So without a major sponser, it's better to be a minor-league ballplayer than a PGA Tour Pro. 

[Parker]

lmao that sure helped also john daly could show every getbigger a thing or two tha man was a fattass , but he was a pimp and loved by everyone. also i saw him having dinner in la quinta ca for the bob hope chrysler classic and he had a hott ass escort sitting on his lap and he used to go to this local club in the hidden vip section and would have have women serve him topless.  

That's not a strong pimp hand-- a strong pimphand is women pay you!

Dude has money=women want to spend time with you, plus it's a freakin' club.

[bigkubby]

DUDE WHERE THE FUK DO YOU THINK MINOR LEAGUE PLAYERS MAKE MORE? MLB PLAYERS ARE PAID A SALRIE AND GOLFERS GET MONEY EARNINGS FROM WINNINGS NOT WHAT THE ITALIAN MOB PAYS THEM AND NOT TO INCLUDE ENDORSEMENTS SO SHUT THE FUK UP ALREADY 

[noworries]

Way off on the minor league player.  A & AA players barely make a grand a month their first year and most A player are making less.  After that they can negotiate.  But, not many making much more than $2,000 a month and in AAA some could make $50,000+ a year.  Minimum is just over $2,000 a month for AAA and just over $1,000 for AA & and under $1,000 for A player.  Meal money is around $25 a day for all minor leaguers.  When you are in AAA you are doing good.  I had several friends playing AAA and then in the majors.  There are some who can make $250,000 a year especially if they were in the big and then put down for one reason or another.  generally in AA and A you are rooming with 2 o 3 or more other guys to help pay the bills.  Back in the 70's the average monthly was around $400 a month.  So eating macaroni and cheese was very popular.  In St. Petersburg, FL we lived in the homes of people and rented rooms for $100 a month and we had to take the trash out, do the dishes are other chores.

[Flex 215]

Way off on the minor league player.  A & AA players barely make a grand a month their first year and most A player are making less.  After that they can negotiate.  But, not many making much more than $2,000 a month and in AAA some could make $50,000+ a year.  Minimum is just over $2,000 a month for AAA and just over $1,000 for AA & and under $1,000 for A player.  Meal money is around $25 a day for all minor leaguers.  When you are in AAA you are doing good.  I had several friends playing AAA and then in the majors.  There are some who can make $250,000 a year especially if they were in the big and then put down for one reason or another.  generally in AA and A you are rooming with 2 o 3 or more other guys to help pay the bills.  Back in the 70's the average monthly was around $400 a month.  So eating macaroni and cheese was very popular.  In St. Petersburg, FL we lived in the homes of people and rented rooms for $100 a month and we had to take the trash out, do the dishes are other chores.

           I said triple A players got about $30 per day meal money, and there are ones that make $50,000 or more.  So not far off from what you said.  and yes, I bet a lot of them room together to save expense when they are not on the road.  But even their own apt. is less than paying for hotels on Tour without a sponser.  And you said in the 70's that mac n chz was popular.  Hank Aaron said when he was in the minors in the late 40's, him and 3 other players would pool money to buy a loaf of bread and a couple of pounds of bologna, and feel like kings being able to finally eat and be filled.  Yogi Berra was always hungery and couldn't afford to eat on his meal money. On Sundays, a nice Italian lady would bring him hero sandwhiches in the minors. Yogi said without this old lady's help, he probably would have quit baseball and gotten a regular job so he could afford to eat.


        Most major league players had offseason jobs until about the 80's.  Only the few highest paid guys could support a family without one.  Golfers also weren't making a lot .  Ben Hogan won a British Open, and his prize money was less than his travel expenses to go there.  He was the best golfer in the world, and he skipped the next 3 British Opens, cause even if he won he lost money. 
         

[bigkubby]

           I said triple A players got about $30 per day meal money, and there are ones that make $50,000 or more.  So not far off from what you said.  and yes, I bet a lot of them room together to save expense when they are not on the road.  But even their own apt. is less than paying for hotels on Tour without a sponser.  And you said in the 70's that mac n chz was popular.  Hank Aaron said when he was in the minors in the late 40's, him and 3 other players would pool money to buy a loaf of bread and a couple of pounds of bologna, and feel like kings being able to finally eat and be filled.  Yogi Berra was always hungery and couldn't afford to eat on his meal money. On Sundays, a nice Italian lady would bring him hero sandwhiches in the minors. Yogi said without this old lady's help, he probably would have quit baseball and gotten a regular job so he could afford to eat.


        Most major league players had offseason jobs until about the 80's.  Only the few highest paid guys could support a family without one.  Golfers also weren't making a lot .  Ben Hogan won a British Open, and his prize money was less than his travel expenses to go there.  He was the best golfer in the world, and he skipped the next 3 British Opens, cause even if he won he lost money. 
         

again that was then and this now im talking about now not 15 years ago 

[noworries]

           I said triple A players got about $30 per day meal money, and there are ones that make $50,000 or more.  So not far off from what you said.  and yes, I bet a lot of them room together to save expense when they are not on the road.  But even their own apt. is less than paying for hotels on Tour without a sponser.  And you said in the 70's that mac n chz was popular.  Hank Aaron said when he was in the minors in the late 40's, him and 3 other players would pool money to buy a loaf of bread and a couple of pounds of bologna, and feel like kings being able to finally eat and be filled.  Yogi Berra was always hungery and couldn't afford to eat on his meal money. On Sundays, a nice Italian lady would bring him hero sandwhiches in the minors. Yogi said without this old lady's help, he probably would have quit baseball and gotten a regular job so he could afford to eat.


        Most major league players had offseason jobs until about the 80's.  Only the few highest paid guys could support a family without one.  Golfers also weren't making a lot .  Ben Hogan won a British Open, and his prize money was less than his travel expenses to go there.  He was the best golfer in the world, and he skipped the next 3 British Opens, cause even if he won he lost money. 
         

Every minor league ball player goes to the unemployement office when the season is over unless they get lucky and play winterball somewhere.  The high school I went to had many pro ballplayers come out of it including Cy Young award winner Mike Scott who I caught.  Back then the scouts encouraged you not to play college ball.  I am surprised that the minimum for the minors has not increased much since the mid 70's.  IN fact the Class A minimum is only $850.  Someone said that they count on their signing bonus alot.  And that is very very true.  It is also something they go through very fast.  Unless you make it to the big's life in the minors is not so hot.  But, you still get to play a gamne you love and have a blast.  And there is always that chance you get the call. I knew a couple guys who literally played AA ball for 10 years.  Once you play 5 years (in minors or majors) you are eligible for a pension.  Of course it is very small unless you play in the majors.  You can also start collecting your pension I think at 40 years old.  The longer you wait to collect though the more you get (monthly).

[chris2489]

Top Earning Athletes in World:
1. Tiger Woods ($99MM)
2. Phil Mickelson ($52MM)
3. David Beckham ($45MM)
4. Lebron James ($42MM)
5. Kimi Raikkonen ($40.1MM)
6. Manny Pacquiao ($40MM)
7. Lionel Messi ($39.9MM)
8. Alex Rodriguez ($39MM)
9. Fernando Alonso ($35MM)
9. Valentino Rossi ($35MM)
9. Shaquille O’Neal ($35MM)
10. Kevin Garnett ($34.7MM)

[mass 04]

Ronnie Coleman is #11.

[bigkubby]

CHRIS SORRY DUDE BUT TIGER WOODS MAKES 124 MILL ANNUALLY

[WillGrant]

Not so much.....





He needs a different stack.

All estrogen 

No pro sportsman deserves the sort of money some of these fukas are getting.

[bigkubby]

All estrogen 

No pro sportsman deserves the sort of money some of these fukas are getting.

[nicky.smth]

All estrogen 

No pro sportsman deserves the sort of money some of these fukas are getting.

I hear some of these golfers inject estrodiol for that boost

[alejandro_torres]

I know some golfers, I play some myself, but i really suck at it,and as soon as you rturn pro, you can be making 100k a year by doing the asian tour... which is good money and you are NO ONE in the real golf world... Carlos franco from paraguay, he made a few million dollars playing golf and he is not known...

[bigkubby]

I know some golfers, I play some myself, but i really suck at it,and as soon as you rturn pro, you can be making 100k a year by doing the asian tour... which is good money and you are NO ONE in the real golf world... Carlos franco from paraguay, he made a few million dollars playing golf and he is not known...

i agree ive heard of him people just dont know and on the nationwide tour the top 25 make over 200k and thats the minor leagues of golf as well as the european tour