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Saturday, January 08, 2011
Golf and its one million referees
It really is ridiculous that the observers become part of the game. Is the PGA hurting for money that they can’t have an official for each group of three golfers?
A friend of mine used to work at a PGA tournament in Montreal. He told me EVERYONE was a volunteer, and there was a waiting list for all kinds of jobs.
So, that’s why the PGA is not going to start paying for officials. They have waiting lists for volunteer work, and they have crowdsourcing of referees. It works wonderfully for them.
I’m not talking about the divet rule. I’m only talking about the observers-becoming-referees scenario.