PGA (golf) 25% of ads sales and 1/3 of event sponsors are BANKS

[underpants]

Will financial turmoil put golf in a hole?
http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/60142
Golf isn’t the only sport being hit, as Fox Sports identified the financial sector as the biggest sector absent from postseason baseball. But golf is unusually dependent on revenue from the financial category, with about 25 percent of network ad time coming from that area. Plus, nearly one-third of all events sanctioned by the PGA Tour are sponsored by banks, investment firms, credit card distributors or financial consultancies, putting golf at the biggest risk from the crisis.


Wall Street Crisis Trickles Down To Nation's Country Clubs
http://deadspin.com/5056353/wall-street-crisis-trickles-down-to-nations-country-clubs

All sports rely on filthy rich brokerage houses, banks and insurance companies to fill the advertising spots that entertain you on lonely Sunday afternoons, but the non-elite sport of golf finds itself particularly well-tangled with the big firms that enjoying seeing their name in front of the word "Open."

Golf is unusually dependent on revenue from the financial category, with about 25 percent of network ad time coming from that area. Plus, nearly one-third of all events sanctioned by the PGA Tour are sponsored by banks, investment firms, credit card distributors or financial consultancies, putting golf at the biggest risk from the crisis.


BUT the PGA says all is well ssssshhhhh!

RPT-FEATURE-Golf-Sport can ride out financial storm, PGA says
http://uk.reuters.com/article/golfNews/idUKLO9027820080925

[tularetom]

1. There is no group of professional athletes more in the pocket of Wall Street

than PGA tour golfers. Over the years I've read story after story about their near unanimous support of puke causes and utter hatred for the Dems and leftist causes. And what it boils down to is they are violently opposed to any taxation for the wealthy. It would not hurt my feelings one iota if the bottom dropped out of the prize money for these spoiled overgrown sheltered children.

[underpants]

2. They are RW all the way

there was an article (BBC I think) about how ravenously RW they are. Rush Limbaugh was celebrated as a GOD when he played at Pebble Beach a few years ago.

Brad Faxon is the only one that consistently gives to anyone NOT Republican. Oh John Daly is true blue Dem

http://www.newsmeat.com/sports_political_donations/
Azinger Crenshaw Love etc 100% Republican

[TheCentepedeShoes]

3. The play with

small balls. Ruh Roh, now I did it.

[BuyingThyme]

4. Retired people put their money BANKS. Then they play golf.

Then they watch golf on TV. And then they change BANKS.