Pro Golfers With Dark Secrets

Professional golf may seem like a conservative world, what with all the players dressed in slacks and button-down shirts and competing in front of quiet fans at country clubs, a bastion of restraint and civility. Behind the scenes however, golfers are apparently a lot like other professionals who tour from town to town and have a lot of time to kill and steam to blow off — rock stars, for example. According to The Daily Beast, the PGA Tour is lousy with female fans ready and willing to party with pro golfers, so much so that those in and around the organization joke that PGA stands for "Party Groupie Association."

It's reportedly one of a caddie's unofficial duties to hook up their boss with women in the spectator gallery. "I've been told 'Look around the ropes,'" one caddie said. "'See who is easy on the eyes.'" They're also instructed to find so-called "gallery girls" in the post-tournament autograph line and offer them one-on-one hangout sessions with golfers, and according to reports, it sounds like a golfer's relationship status doesn't always make a difference. The Daily Beast found "groupies, carousing and wild sex as a central element for many players on the PGA Tour," calling it "a secret underworld" in the sport.

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