The Sugar Daddies of the PGA Tour
Only a handful of aspiring tour professionals land the type of lucrative endorsement contracts that allow them to just focus on golf when first starting out. For others, it takes a wealthy individual to cover the significant up-front costs of life on tour. In this episode, Daniel Rapaport examines the unique arrangements between tour players and their golf “sugar daddies."
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Show Notes
There is no draft in pro golf. When most young players try to make a go of it on tour, they’re on their own, which means the expenses of tournament fees, travel, and caddies can add up in a hurry. In the absence of the type of endorsement contracts given to top prospects, some players have to get creative, and that means relying on wealthy backers who help front the costs in exchange for a potential return on their investment and the entertainment of having skin in the game. In this episode of Local Knowledge, Daniel Rapaport looks at how certain golfers have come to rely on “sugar daddies" in their early years on tour, and how those relationships vary from one to the next.
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