GOLF.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 100, 8 February 1936, Page 2

GOLF.

PROFESSIONAL GAMES WHAT THE PRIZES ARE. Judged from the possible money returns, professional golf lags far behind other professional sports, such as baseball, boxing, and even wrestling. Even in the United States, where liberal rewards await the sporting star, as the routine goes these days, 2500 dollars is a tqp prize, and as a rule the maximum the winner from an all-star field can expect is 1000 dollars. A recent report of Robert E. Harlow, manager of the tournament bureau for the Professional Golfers’ Association, for the period of a year, is quite interesting. During the winter season there wlere 18 Itoitrnaments. Over the summer months there were 14 more. For the 32 events the prizemoney totalled 134,700 dollars, divided 80,500 dollars during the winter season and 54,200 dollars for the summer. Authentic figures are not at hand 1 , but a rough estimate is that 100 players shared, in the total, and it is doubtful whether the leading money winner exceeded 8000 dollars in cash prizes. Publicity and prestige arising from the winning of .important events is of additional value to the winner in other ways, but, even conceding that, the professional golfer still trails the professionals in other sports in his capacity to cash in on his achieve, aents in the competitive field.