When coming in second changes your life. Short story of a broke golfer....until yesterday
Second is the best: Sucher resurrects career with 'life-changing' T-2 at Travelers
https://www.golfchannel.com/news/second-best-zack-sucher-resurrects-career-life-changing-t-2-travelers
Considering the amount of money PGA Tour pros play for – and the fact that they play golf for a living – casual observers don’t often associate Tour life and hard times. The assumption is that these guys are insulated from some of the real-life concerns of society at large. That’s because a lot of them are.
But not all of them. And not Sucher.
“We had seven months with no income at all coming in two years ago,” he said. “During that, we had to take out some credit cards.”
When it was time for a return to golf, Sucher was armed with six starts to make up 347 FedExCup points – no easy task for even a healthy, competitively sharp pro. And then there was the matter of the early-season Korn Ferry Tour schedule, when Sucher played events in Colombia and Panama. You can make a lot of money on Tour, and you can spend a lot, too. Players are responsible for their own travel and food and lodging, plus whatever arrangements they’ve worked out with their caddies.
Sucher hadn’t earned a check on Tour in over a year, but he had to go play. In a tweet Sunday night, he thanked his wife for sticking by his side and allowing him to "risk our house by taking out loans and maxing out credit cards to afford my travel expenses."
“I know that like two months ago we had credit card debt. So I know we don't have that anymore.”
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