![]() ![]() Which is why I am surprised by the decision of some of the world’s top golfers to take the money and run away from the PGA Tour, the reason that they do not really need the money they are chasing. I know as well that attractive young women about half my age who see me now as an old bald guy with a beer gut would then see me then as an old bald guy with a beer gut and a hard-to-explain magnetism.īut other than those tweaks to my lifestyle, I just do not see that much changing. Oh yea, a plane and a pilot to jet me around would be a must. Yea, I might buy a bigger primary home, second, third and fourth homes on world-class golf courses situated in exotic locations, get a fleet of luxury automobiles, take a big jump in the rankings of the Rams Club, give one-time bonuses of $500 to all my relatives, both those I know well and those who suddenly reconnect, and half that to my best friends. Which is one reason I have never purchased any numbers to win those mega-lotteries that award hundreds of millions of dollars, making my chance of winning an incalculable fraction of the odds of winning for those who do purchase tickets.īut if I did stumble into a couple of hundred million dollars, not much about my life would change. I can, to a satisfying extent, do that on my pittance. ![]() The best thing money can buy is not a big house at the beach or a nice car, but freedom to do as one pleases. Spending 36 years in journalism sealed the deal. It was never a goal in my young life to make a lot of money during the rest of it, and I can say today that mission was accomplished.
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