Unusual PGA Tour pro hobbies
PGA Tour pro hobbies and interests typically include 'hunting, fishing and all sports'. But not these 10 who stray just a little from the norm...
Delve into the PGA Tour pro hobbies and interests section on the tour's website, and stereotypically you’ll find an awful lot of “hunting, fishing and all sports”. Not from these 10 gentlemen though…
Kenny Perry
The Kentuckian who so nearly won the Masters in 2009 may come across as Mr Average, but beneath the visor and specs lurks a wilder side. Perry gets his kicks from Harley Davidsons and drag-racing.
Jonathan Byrd
The five-time tour winner and 2002 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year is the only player to list ‘hanging out with my wife at home’ as an interest. Sounds intriguing…
Robert Gamez
Going to Disney theme parks is one of Gamez’s interests, but presumably not when trying to save your card in the season’s Disney finale as the Las Vegas man invariably found himself doing as his main tour career wound down.
Todd Hamilton
Hamilton’s all-beige ensemble en route to victory at Troon in 2004 hints at a studious nature, so it’s no surprise to find that he’s an avid crossword puzzler.
Tim Clark
Tour pros do a lot of flying from tournament to tournament, but Clark takes it a stage further with a passion for remote-control planes. Remote-control golf balls might be more useful, of course…
Jesper Parnevik
You’ll need to get to the end of the eccentric Swede’s list before you find anything mentioned by any other tour pro - magic, vitamins, bridge, backgammon, yoga, yachting, tennis.
Steve Elkington
The 1995 USPGA champion is a talented artist who apparently fills his spare time drawing caricatures. Should spend more time doing that than upsetting people on Twitter, perhaps?
Pat Perez
That volatile temperament would be enough to wear anyone out, so it’s nice to see that Perez lists sleeping among his interests.
Jeff Sluman
The 1988 USPGA champion is the only tour pro to cite raising Akitas as a hobby – for those not up on their canines, that’s a large Japanese huskyesque dog.
Kirk Triplett
The man with the pork pie hat lists adoption as one of his interests having adopted two children himself and set up the Tour Fore Adoption programme.
