07-20-2008, 10:23 AM
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Green Jacket
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 1,584
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Re: Nicklaus: The younger Tour players are 'soft'
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Originally Posted by Stiofan
Jack's comments are not about the top players in his day, they are about the bottom players in his day compared to the bottom players today.
The money difference between bottom and top was more of an incentive to better yourself. Today, who cares, you're making near a million (with endorsements) regardless just by retaining your card.
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Things are no different today. In Jack's day you had your journeymen who never won, and we have the same today.
Look at last year's TOUR money list. Steve Lowery finished 148th with $502,000. No incentive to better himself, right? Then why did he win this year's Pebble Beach National Pro-Am?
Or how about Ben Curtis? Last year he finished 126th with $772,000. He's only, as I type, grinding his guts out at Royal Birkdale, trying to win The Open Championship.
You want an incentive to get better? Today's TOUR players...the rank and file guys...the journeymen...know that there are more than 300 golfers, world wide, who are trying to get a PGA TOUR card.
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