Not just any given Sunday

By Golf NSW

It’s Sunday at the Pacific Bay Resort Australian Ladies Classic – Bonville, as it is (or will soon be) at golf tournaments all around the world.

To most people, Sunday is a day of rest. Perhaps a sleep in, a late breakfast and leisurely read of the paper. But not for golfers. Not professional golfers, anyway.

For them, Sunday is payday. The most important day of the week, by some way. On Sunday in golf, they hand out cheques – and trophies.

The fans and the media concentrate almost all their attention on Sundays on the trophy. And that is as it should be.

Professional golf is not a democracy, it is a competition, and the winner claims the spoils.

Read more…