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Although you may or may not be one of the many millions of fans who might consider it less than good sportsmanship to even think of the question, why is it that people will gather by the hundreds and by the thousands just to watch as few as three or four other people knock a ball around a prescribed course? Consider the game of golf, for instance where a mere handful of players seem to have a corner on the market from a professional sports point of view. The only ones who receive any tangible reward for their efforts seems to be the players, not the spectators; if you look at it from the point of view of receiving some sort of prize the players definitely seem to be the only one who ever put anything in their billfold.
Unless it happens to be that the promoters of the tournament give away some kind of door prize, if that is what you would actually call a prize that is handed over to someone in the great outdoors, no spectator ever walked away from a golf tournament with anything more in his pockets than what he walked onto the course with in the first place; he most likely would walk away at the conclusion of the contest with considerably less in his pockets. Most of the big tournaments, according to some authorities on the subject, are viewed firsthand only as the result of a willingness on the part of the spectator to part with several of his hard-earned dollars. So, the prospect of making a dollar or two does not appear to motivate the millions of followers of the game.
Generally speaking, the crowds that flock to golf tournaments are divided into two categories: the squatters and the walkers. The squatters are, of course, those fans who arrive in the early hours of the morning and stake out a claim to a viewing position beside the first green, where they sit until the players have teed off. Then the squatters move on masse and take up positions beside another green, say around the sixth hole, where they sit and bask in the sunshine until the players have completed that hole.