Posted on 08/09/2007 5:12:32 AM PDT by battlegearboat
"A noteworthy professional golfer isn't staying in a ritzy hotel during the 2007 PGA Championship. Instead, the golfer and his family are staying in a spacious, four-bedroom abode in south Tulsa.
So who is it?..."
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This happens all the time at the Furniture Market in High Point, NC. People will camp out for a week and rent their homes to incoming merchants for the Market making a ton of money in the process.
I know a fellow who rented his house to Michael Jordan for the US Open when it was last held at The Country Club in Brookline, MA.
How much? Would you believe $600,000.00 for the week?
Where did the owners stay that week. Mike put them up at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston.
My word, Mike likes golf!
The people who live along the links in Pinehurst, NC do it every summer.
A lot of people will pay big bucks to live in a real house for a week or so.
Lots of residents of Augusta do it for the Master’s every year too.
Happens at every tournament. It helps to pay those high mortgages for course side homes in a lot of instances.
Augusta is definitely the model for this. My wife has a friend who is from there, and one year Sony rented their house and completely remodeled it including the kitchen in Japanese style furnishings. We are talking about a 5 bedroom house. Not only did they get paid handsomely for the rental, they kept anything they wanted and the company put back anything they didn’t with new stuff.
I keep trying to talk my Sister into turning her house into a B&B when they play Saucon Valley.
If you stand on the back deck of my house in north Raleigh, you look squarely at the front of the clubhouse of a TPC golf course that is in its first year of PGA tournament eligibility. When a major comes here (not if), we should clean up. It’s a nice home and a very, very brief walk straight back to the course/clubhouse.
On a side note, John Daly shot -3 today and is currently tied for the lead. John Daly!!!!
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