They wear starched white shirts and crisply knotted neckties, carry walkie-talkies and buzz their carts around tournaments with an air of authority. But golf’s version of umpires and referees is all but invisible.
PGA Tour officials do not wear striped shirts or blow whistles, throw flags, single out players who commit fouls, sweep dirt off home plate or go nose to nose with angry athletes or red-faced coaches.
They do much more. They rise well before the sun to double-check weather forecasts, set hole locations, outline water and other hazards with red paint, explain and enforce the rules of the game on a playing field spread out over hundreds of acres of hills and 18 holes measuring nearly five miles through forests and glens.
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