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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
I attended an LPGA event held at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, MN about ten years or so ago. We were there on a Friday. Great golf; we had no problem going anywhere on the course where spectators were allowed. Plenty of seating and standing space. Didn't cost much. Parking was as I recall; $5 per vehicle and there was plenty of space.
My wife attended a PGA event at the same course about five years prior to that--2009 I think. Tiger Woods was in the field. She had a special pass from a friend who worked there in some capacity or other. At the time, I think the cost per ticket was in the neighborhood of $200 per day--if you could get one. Many couldn't. Offhand I'd say that it cost a spectator about five times as much to attend the PGA championship as the LPGA one. To say nothing of the advertising revenues for television, which with Tiger in the field probably dwarfed any such revenue gained from the LPGA event.
Is this fair?
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In my opinion, it is very fair. It's called capitalism and the free market.