PGA Tour players fought to unionize and failed 25 years ago. Today's pros could have used it
Although he has seen more than most, having played a record 803 PGA Tour events, Mark Brooks still hasn’t seen it all. But for a quarter century, he has warned colleagues about vocational vulnerability and has encouraged them to band together. He always assumed it would take a disaster for content PGA Tour members to realize how little they knew about their business and how little control they truly had. “I thought it might end up being some horrific accident like lightning killing 10 people on the course,” said Brooks, winner of the 1996 PGA Championship, ...