Tour Players Constantly Reminded Not To Be Cheapskates

The most surprising revelation in Luke Kerr-Dineen's September Golf Digest story on player tipping proved to be just how much the PGA Tour hounds players on all tours about tipping locker-room attendants each week.

Oh there's a bunch on Mickelson's big tipping ways, but this about the specificity of the tour policy surprised me...

The PGA Tour is structured similarly to its developmental tour, albeit with the formality kicked up a few notches.

Like the Web.com Tour, players are briefed at the start of the season about what's expected in the tipping department--mainly, in the words of Andy Pazder, the executive vice president and chief of operations, "to conduct themselves in a professional manner that's come to be expected of professional golfers."

At the start of each week, tournament officials give locker-room attendants a list of every player in the field. The tour's official tournament regulations stipulate that players are required to tip locker-room attendants a minimum of $50 for the week. In a 156-player field, that comes to at least $7,800 divided among the handful of attendants clubs usually employ.