Palm Beach Overtakes Orlando As The New De Facto Tax Friendly Home Of PGA Tour Elite

Michael Bamberger in this week's SI Golf Plus looks at all of the PGA Tour's finest moving to Palm Beach, where "61 current or former PGA, Nationwide and Champions tour players living in Palm Beach and Martin counties" compared with a mere 60 living calling Orlando home.

Part of the scene Bamberger captures:

Part of impetus for Tiger’s move to Jupiter Island, which was first planned about five years ago, was because Elin, then his wife, wanted to be near her Swedish friends. Medalist is only a 15-minute drive from his house if the toll bridge isn’t up, and he’s there regularly, practicing and playing. Medalist is a place for serious golfers, and nobody there gawks at Woods. “He’s one of the guys,” Marino says, although Woods has not joined the occasional impromptu sixsome games there, in which a half-dozen Tour players in three carts will play 18 holes in three hours, with Marc (Tuna) Turnesa of the Titleist Turnesas keeping track of who owes what to whom. Fowler is often in these games, as is Browne, the father of Rickie’s girlfriend, Alexandra. For now Woods comes to the club with a prearranged game, but he chats up everybody on the range, talking about swing speeds and green speeds and other less nerdy subjects, like who closed the Square Grouper on a recent weeknight, a nearby sandy-floored tiki bar where on any night you’ll see broken tees and BMW keys next to coasters holding tall glasses of Magic Hat.