THE UNDERCOVER PRO
Why Pro Golf Is Full of Bad Marriages
EARLY IN MY CAREER, a person I respected told me to find a woman who didn’t know who I
other matter. I’m not talking about bad marriages. For most guys out here, the right part- ner is the only reason any of this is sustainable. She’s running the house, the kids, the calendar, the bills while you’re three time zones away missing a cut by one. She’s the voice on the phone Sunday night calming you down after a closing 74. The right person at home
is the most underrated edge in profes- sional golf, and it’s not close. Plenty of guys would have washed out years ago without the unglamorous, unphoto- graphed work of a spouse holding their life together. That’s what makes the harder cases so confusing. Sometimes the genuinely supportive spouse or girlfriend, the person doing everything correctly by any normal standard, can
was. On the surface, it made sense. Mar- ry someone who isn’t chasing the life- style, isn’t measuring you by your world ranking, loves you for reasons that have nothing to do with your sponsors. The reasoning is airtight. What such a relationship does to your game is an-
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