Comment: The golf ball

Someone pointed out to me recently that golf is the only professional sport that allows the players to supply their own balls. Well if you put it that way, I guess, maybe we should consider ratcheting back - or at least holding at its current state - the golf ball used in professional competition.

That's a debate for another day, however. Today, let's consider the awesome task of the range attendants at a professional event such as the PGA Championship. A lot of people may not realize that on the range at a Tour event, players practice only with balls like the ones they play on the course, causing a lot of extra, taxing, time-consuming work for the range guys and gals.

Here's a photo from pga.com:


So raise a beer stein to the attendants.