Spoiled Rotten

Filed in archive Golf News on August 3, 2007

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Well known golf writer, Lorne Rubenstein, wrote a story this week in which he commented about how much touring pros take for granted when it comes to the perks of the job.

Rubenstein writes of the charter jet that the Royal canadian golf association hired to fly players from the British Open at Carnoustie directly to the Canadian Open, first-class service all the way.

It wasn't free: each player paid a thousand dollars. But it was about a third of the cost of a regular first-class seat.

Several players who had no intention of playing the Open in Toronto talked their way aboard, hoping to avoid delays at Heathrow in London due to heavy rains and flooding - although the flooding occurred much farther to the north.

At any rate, Rubenstein's take on the pros is that they expect far too much.

My take is that, at some point along the road, the pros began to receive more and more perks and they have simply come to judge it as the norm.

Human nature, pure and simple. If there's always food on the table, then you expect three meals a day; if there's chateaubriand and caviar on the table three times a day, then you'll complain if you're served meatloaf and gravy.

Well, Lorne's story can be found here. And, as they say, you be the judge.