Presentation on golf for class

1. Golf
By Liam Guest

2. PGA
• http://www.pga.com/home/
• Professional Golfers Association is the usual term given for
a professional association in men’s golf. There are several
PGA’s around the world such as, Professional Golfers
Association (Which is for Great Britain and Ireland) and also
The professional golfers association of America.
• Each of these PGA’s are two individual associations and
they both have many tours that they hold such as:
• PGA Tour (America) : PGA Tour, Web.com Tour, Champions
Tour, PGA Tour Canada, PGA Tour Latinoamerica and also
PGA Tour China.
• PGA European Tour: European Tour, Challenge Tour and the
European Seniors Tour.

3. Professional Golf Tours
• Professional Golf Tours are the means which other unconnected
professional golf tournaments are organized into a regular
schedule. Each tour is based in a specific geographical region,
however some of their tournaments can be held in other parts of
the world.
• Golf is one of the more lucrative sports in the world for both men
and women and it has a different structure from other sports,
especially team sports as it concentrates more on the individual
than an actual team.
• Touring professionals or also known as Tournament and
professional golfers make their income from prize money and
endorsements , and these are a small elite within this profession.
Apart from these Elite players just about all other professional
golfers make there money within a club or by teaching
professionals.

4. Tour Golf
• There are enormous differences in the financial rewards offered by the various golf tours, so
players on all but the top few tours always aspire to move up if they can. For example, the
PGA Tour, which is the first-tier tour in the United States, offers nearly a hundred times as
much prize money each season as the third-tier NGA Pro Golf Tour. The hierarchy of tours in
financial terms, as of 2014, is as follows:
• Clear 1st: PGA Tour
• Clear 2nd: European Tour
• Clear 3rd: LPGA Tour
• Clear 4th: Champions Tour
• Fifth to seventh : Asian Tour; Japan Golf Tour; LPGA of Japan Tour
• The way in which players get selected to these tours are by Rankings. You earn points from
each Tour and get ranked through each to then be able to be selected to each tour. These
tours above are the tours which give more prize money out because of sponsorship.

5. For example
Tournament Automatic entries
The Masters Top 50
U.S. Open Top 60
The Open Championship Top 50
PGA Championship (Top 100)
WGC-Accenture Match Play
Championship
Top 64
WGC-Cadillac Championship Top 50
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Top 50
WGC-HSBC Champions Top 50

6. Current Standings
http://www.pgatour.com/stats/stat.186.html

7. Professional golfers
• The very best golfers make up to 8-figure incomes in U.S. dollars from tournament play alone; when
endorsement income is taken into account, Tiger Woods was the highest earning sportsman in the
world for much of the first decade of the 21st century according to Forbes magazine. He lost this
status in 2011 after losing many of his endorsement contracts following his 2009 sex scandal.
• For the less successful, trying to make a living from tournament golf can be precarious:
tournaments have entry fees and the associated costs of travel and lodging, plus the hire of a caddy.
Moreover, most tournaments have a "cut" after the second of four rounds, in which a minimum
aggregate score is selected to eliminate roughly half the field, and advance the remaining to
pairings for the final rounds. Only those players remaining after the cut earn any prize money at all.
Thus, after costs are taken into account, lesser-known tournament golfers who are playing
erratically and do not have a steady income from endorsements can be in dire financial straits in a
bad year.
• In the game of Golf each hole is given a par, which means how many times it should take you to hit
the ball to finally get it into the hole. For example if the first holes par was 5 and you hit 6 then you
will be given +1, if you hit it in for 4 then you get -1. The smaller the number you have the better
your score is.
• You will go around with another player and keep track of each others scores.
• The Golfers score is compared to the par score which on average is 72. So this means the Golfers
objective is to take less than 72 shots to finish each of the 18 holes.

8. PGA Tour
• http://www.pgatour.com/
• Commissioner- Tim Finchem- He has began his 21st
year as commissioner of the PGA Tour in June 2014.
• Headquarters- PGA TOUR National Headquarters
100 PGA TOUR Boulevard
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
(904) 285-3700
• https://www.google.com/maps/@30.204492,-
81.392005,3a,75y,203.6h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sGLfY7gOeHeZyrx1DdiwrDQ!2e0
PGA TOUR: New York Office
126 East 56th Street
Suite 1600
New York, NY 10022
• Other Tournaments: PGA Tour, Web.com Tour, Champions Tour, PGA Tour Canada, PGA Tour Latinoamerica
and also PGA Tour China.
• Schedule:
• http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/schedule.html

9. European Tour
• http://www.europeantour.com/
• The Tour's headquarters are at:
Wentworth Drive
Virginia Water
Surrey GU25 4LX
United Kingdom.
Telephone: +44 (0) 1344 840400
Fax: +44 (0) 1344 840500
• Chief Executive- George O’Grady-
• Other Tournaments: European Tour, Challenge Tour and the
European Seniors Tour.
• Schedule:
http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/tournament/

10. LPGA Tour
• http://www.lpga.com/
• COMMISSIONER: MICHAEL WHAN
• Headquarters: 100 International Golf Drive
Daytona Beach, Florida 32124-1092
Phone: (386) 274-6200
Fax: (386) 274-1099
• Schedule: http://www.lpga.com/tournaments

11. The Ryder Cup
• Team USA: http://www.rydercup.com/usa/
• Team Europe: http://www.rydercup.com/europe/
• Team Captains: USA: Davis Love III
• Europe: Darren Clarke
• The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the United
States. The competition is contested every two years with the venue alternating between courses in
the USA and Europe. The Ryder Cup is named after the English businessman Samuel Ryder who
donated the trophy. The teams will consist of 12 of the highest ranked players from both America
and Europe.
• The Ryder Cup involves various match play competitions between players selected from two teams
of twelve. It takes place from a Friday to a Sunday with a total of 28 matches being played, all
matches being over 18 holes. On Friday and Saturday there are four fourball matches and four
foursomes matches each day; a session of four matches in the morning and a session of four
matches in the afternoon. On Sunday, there are 12 singles matches, when all team members play.
Not all players must play on Friday and Saturday; the captain can select any eight players for each of
the sessions over these two days.
• The winner of each match scores a point for his team, with ½ a point each for any match that is tied
after the 18 holes. The winning team is determined by cumulative total points. In the event of a tie
(14 points each) the Ryder Cup is retained by the team who held it before the contest.

12. Seniors League
• Upon reaching age 50, male golfers are eligible to compete
in senior tournaments. Golf is unique among sports in
having high profile and lucrative competitions for players of
this age group. Nearly all of the famous golfers who are
eligible to compete in these events choose to do so, unless
they are unable to for health reasons. A number of players
win more than a million dollars in prize money each season,
and once endorsements and other business activities are
taken into account, a few of the "legends of golf" in this age
group earn as much as any of the younger PGA Tour pros.
The two main senior tours are:
• Champions Tour (based in the United States)
• European Seniors Tour

13. Rory McIlroy
• http://www.rorymcilroy.com/
• Rory McIlroy MBE was born on the 4th of May
1989.
• Northern Irish professional Golfer. He is a
member of both the European and PGA Tours
because of his current standings being ranked 1st.
• He won his first major at 22 years of age.
• He is the current world number one and a four
time major champion.

14. In a Hole, Golf Considers Digging a
Wider One.
• This is the article that I found and it is basically explaining that they have made golf holes the size of
pizza’s and soccer balls. The reason behind this is to keep people interested in the sport and make it
easy for them as I know from a personal experience that golf is no easy sport to play and can take a
lot of patience. The article goes on to say:
• These are some of the measures — some would say gimmicks — that golf courses across the
country have experimented with to stop people from quitting the game.
• Golf has always reveled in its standards and rich tradition. But increasingly a victim of its own image
and hidebound ways, golf has lost five million players in the last decade, according to the National
Golf Foundation, with 20 percent of the existing 25 million golfers apt to quit in the next few years.
• People under 35 have especially spurned the game, saying it takes too long to play, is too difficult to
learn and has too many tiresome rules.
• Many of golf’s leaders are so convinced the sport is in danger of following the baby boomer
generation into the grave that an internal rebellion has led to alternative forms of golf with new
equipment, new rules and radical changes to courses. The goal is to alter the game’s reputation in
order to recruit lapsed golfers and a younger demographic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/sports/
golf/in-a-hole-golf-considers-digging-a-wider-
one.html?_r=0

15. Callaway
• http://www.callawaygolf.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-CG-
Site/en_US/CustomerService-Show?fid=corporate&cid=corporate-careers
• Callaway Golf was founded in 1982 by the late Ely Callaway, a visionary
entrepreneur who operated under a simple but profound business
promise: Deliver Demonstrably Superior, Pleasingly Different products and
services. That philosophy turned what was originally a boutique
manufacturer of high-quality wedges and putters into the world's largest
maker of premium, performance golf products.
• Headquarters:
• Callaway Golf Company
2180 Rutherford Road
Carlsbad, CA 92008
• CEO: Oliver G. Brewer lll
• http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personI
d=387566&ticker=ELY