[wally_bert]

I have never understood why hitting a little ball can command so much money and a near cult like following.

[discostu]

There are two paths to making money in this world:
make somebody else money
be hard to replace

There aren’t that many people that can hit those balls that well, so there’s number 2, and those people who can are cornerstones in a billion dollar entertainment industry, so there’s number 1.