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Originally Posted by Vernon Hud

Liv golf. Why do we all live in The Villages, because we all made enough money to retire here. Why do we all go to work everyday, money. Without money in this society we have barely anything, and it is pretty hard to live on barely anything. When the NFL. NHL, baseball expanded because of rival leagues forming, do you think the competition got worse, no I believe you have to compete harder to play in these leagues. It has created more opportunities for kids to play in High school, more kids compete in college, which makes it more competive to play in the pros. I know there is a lot of mediocre players in the bigs, but they all make a pretty darn good salary to play, and the competition seems to go up each year. But you talk to all the big leagueres, and see if they would just play for a trophy, which is basically what a lot of these golfers are saying, I want to take home that trophy. Well, I will bet if there was no money to play for that trophy, there would no professional golfers. Trophies don't put food on the table, and if there was salaries paid to players, there just may be a lot more kids taking up the sport, which will make the sport more competive.

At the end of the day its a job, their livelihood. Many of these players have a finite golf lifespan. They could get injured, get the yips, etc and so they want to make as much money as they can while they can.