PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS5 INCOMES.

Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 5

PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS 5 INCOMES.

Writing in the ‘Pal! Mall Gazette/ Mr Mark Alierton, referring to a question bv a boy as to how he might become a professional golfer, says it would seem that the, only thing for this small boy to do is first to become a caddie, in order to acquire in that hard school the caddies' superlative skill in hitting the ball, and then to beg for a place in a professional's shop. It is an unsatisfactory course, and one that few will adopt in the case of their son!s. And yet one reads that the income of the leading professional runs well into four figures. It is whispered of at least one that he makes £2,000 a year. Taylor and Braid and Vnrdon and the rest of the plutocratic profession need have no immediate fear of having soon to meet competition of the keenest nature for rumor has it that the number of professional golfers who make a large income is so small as to he almost negligible. In fact, the average wage of the professional golfer has been estimated at £2 a week.