Nelson: Stadion steps up big time for tourney || OnlineAthens.com

Don Nelson of the Athens Banner-Herald supplies a behind the ropes look at what it takes to make or break a sponsorship of a Nationwide golf tourney event, and damn is it expensive. A lot of Oconee County businesses and groups griped about the lack of local involvement in the tourney when it was at Jennings Mill the last four years with visions of spend thrift golfers and golf fans dancing in their heads. Golfers are arguably the cheapest professional athletes, and these are not the top golfers in the world. So perhaps it was not realistic to remain hopeful about a bunch of second-tier golfers (or their caddies or families or friends) emptying out their wallets in Watkinsville. Four years ago in the Chappelle's downtown Watkinsville gallery back yard I learned of the game "Corn Hole" where you toss bean bags at an inclined wooden box in a modern game of horseshoes in a BBQ put on by local folks in an attempt to win allegiance from the traveling troupe of struggling professional golfers. Stadion financial services has somehow survived the recent economic meltdown, and I wish them luck in reaping some economic reward from this year's event at the UGA course (which is actually closer to my Watkinsville home despite being still in Athens-Clarke county).
Nelson: Stadion steps up big time for tourney || OnlineAthens.com

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