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"Pain Steward" ?!?! I think your spell-checker has run amok! spell-checker, don’t need no stinking spell-checker So you’re saying that you meant to spell Payne Stewart’s name that way? I just assumed your spell-checker picks out similar words that it recognized . . .
I assumed that too, changing names to words. Before I got my current newsreader I have carelessly allowed such "corrections". News Rover’s spell checker changes unrecognized words to red. This makes it more obvious to me whether I should run the spell checker on the whole message, on selected text, or simply correct my misspellings by hand. It won’t automatically find words for Payne and Stewart. Hmmm, it recognized these, I must have added them in the past.
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Honestly, before the buy.com/Nationwide Tours started up, what would non-exempt pros do, at least, stateside? I know they had the TPS tour thing in the mid 80s, and I’m sure many pros would play in Europe, but what "minor league golf" options were available in the States in the 70s and 80s?
Well, there was the Southern Tour, or something like that, in the South, and I played behind Joe Campbell’s group in some tournament or another back about ‘60. He won maybe $200 dollars in the "pro" flight, and I finished way back in the amateur section. Anyhow, there were tournaments at regional levels that pros would travel to. Everybody wasn’t trying or expecting to be a millionaire playing golf. It was a way to avoid having to work. As far as the regular tour goes, the "exempt" thing is pretty recent, by my reckoning. Had Viet Nam not got in my way, I had every intention of becoming a "rabbit", a "dew sweeper", on the tour. These were players who had not qualified to play in the week’s event, by way of winning an event, finishing high enough in the previous year’s money list, finishing in the top x in the previous week’s tournament, or an invite. They followed the tour, playing on Monday, to qualify for the week’s event. You wannah play? Plonk down your $200 and dollars and tee it up. Shoot a good score and you have Thursday and Friday to try to make some money. You could still do that, but it’d cost you a fortune, I imagine. Rabbits used to drive from place to place, but that just wouldn’t do, these days. I think all that’s changed is that there are more ways to become exempt than before, and richer ways to find it to the big time. Before Arnold Palmer, there weren’t many rich golfers — at least not professional ones. On the other hand, there aren’t that many rich professional golfers, still, it’s just become extreme in the separation between the top and the bottom, like the rest of society. (Professional golf is "Argentinized". :^) How come some old golfers have some "Second Tour" or "Mini" (Like, The Mini Byron Nelson Classic) events listed? Is this kinda like a minor league? I’ll have some examples soon.
Sounds right. There was a "mini" tour that I think started in the ’70s, that was a collection of the older regional tournaments and a few new ones. "He played on the mini-tour." The mini-tour got some umph when Hogan backed it and renamed it the Hogan Tour, if memory serves.
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"Pain Steward" ?!?! I think your spell-checker has run amok! spell-checker, don’t need no stinking spell-checker
So you’re saying that you meant to spell Payne Stewart’s name that way? I just assumed your spell-checker picks out similar words that it recognized . . . Doug — ___, Doug Massey, ASIC Digital Logic Designer o IBM Microelectronics Division, Burlington, Vermont | | Phone: (802)769-7095 t/l: 446-7095 fax: x6752 | / | . My homepage: http://doug.obscurestuff.com (|)
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The "AAA" tour in the US was the Nike Tour before buy.com and Hogan Tour before that. There is/was the Canadian Tour (Triplett, Stricker, Begay for example.) and a few smaller tours in the US South. Many players worked their way up playing in Japan. Lehman and Beem to name only 2. Pain Steward use to play on the Austro-Asian tour, and I believe Bob May on the Japannese tour. There was also the Golden Bear tour in California and Sunshine tour in Florida.
"Pain Steward" ?!?! I think your spell-checker has run amok! Doug — ___, Doug Massey, ASIC Digital Logic Designer o IBM Microelectronics Division, Burlington, Vermont | | Phone: (802)769-7095 t/l: 446-7095 fax: x6752 | / | . My homepage: http://doug.obscurestuff.com (|)
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Honestly, before the buy.com/Nationwide Tours started up, what would non-exempt pros do, at least, stateside? I know they had the TPS tour thing in the mid 80s, and I’m sure many pros would play in Europe, but what "minor league golf" options were available in the States in the 70s and 80s? I think most states have their own mini tours to this day. Not sure you could earn a living doing so, however.
The "AAA" tour in the US was the Nike Tour before buy.com and Hogan Tour before that. There is/was the Canadian Tour (Triplett, Stricker, Begay for example.) and a few smaller tours in the US South. Many players worked their way up playing in Japan. Lehman and Beem to name only 2. — Doug Main "It’s never too late to have a happy childhood."
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Honestly, before the buy.com/Nationwide Tours started up, what would non-exempt pros do, at least, stateside? I know they had the TPS tour thing in the mid 80s, and I’m sure many pros would play in Europe, but what "minor league golf" options were available in the States in the 70s and 80s?
I think most states have their own mini tours to this day. Not sure you could earn a living doing so, however.