Business: Golf Ball Crackdown

When your golf club has a swatfest, father & son tournament or other unique contest with a handsome goblet as prize, the chances are that it has been instigated by the Professional Golfers' Association of America, commonly called the PGA. Founded in 1916 by several eastern professionals, PGA is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote golf and thereby professional golfers, who are one of the most underpaid groups of crack athletes in the world. PGA conducts tournaments, offers free teaching in colleges, free advice to clubs, free architects to the...

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