{"id":21778,"date":"2017-11-22T11:43:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/spieth-a-winner-before-even-teeing-up\/"},"modified":"2017-11-22T11:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:43:54","slug":"spieth-a-winner-before-even-teeing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/spieth-a-winner-before-even-teeing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Spieth a “Winner” Before Even Teeing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is common practice, in spite of official denials. Tiger Woods in his heyday reputedly charged $3 million to appear in certain events. Now one of the new golden boys of the sport is reaping similar rewards as the \u201clesser\u201d tournaments attempt to attract top global stars. <\/p>\n

According to a Reuters report. Jordan Spieth is being paid US$1 million just to tee up in this week\u2019s Australian Open in Sydney. That is more than the tournament\u2019s total purse of 1.25 million Australian dollars (around US$945,000). <\/p>\n

Spieth has won the event two out of the past three years, was joint runner-up with Adam Scott in 2015, and is clearly a sufficiently important drawcard to justify the fee. Jason Day is said to be receiving a similar fee, and several other players smaller fees. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve basically sold out of corporate hospitality and Jordan\u2019s announcement really helped that,\u201d Golf Australia chief executive Stephen Pitt told Reuters. \u201cAnd pre-sales of tickets are much more advanced of last year. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe operate in a market where appearance fees are required to attract the best players in the world, particularly international players, and we are in the same boat as a large number of tournaments around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the world\u2019s top players, there are now so many playing opportunities and the schedule is crowded, so many tournaments have had to adapt to stay competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is common practice, in spite of official denials. Tiger Woods in his heyday reputedly charged $3 million to appear in certain events. Now one of the new golden boys of the sport is reaping similar rewards as the \u201clesser\u201d tournaments attempt to attract top global stars. According to a Reuters report. Jordan Spieth is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}