From the Parks to the Parking Lot
Whether it's Tiger-mania or just great golf, this husband-and-wife team has seen it all as longtime volunteers for the BMW Championship at Cog Hill.
While the job description is an enticing one, Lemont resident Jan Porter cautions that working as a volunteer at the Western Open and BMW Championship is not always a sneak-peek look into the phenomenon known as Tiger-mania. Nor is it truly a glimpse into the celebrity life of the PGA Tour professionals who so routinely make it their business to hopscotch across the country in order to keep their appointed rounds. Porter has learned the players are often out of sight, if not out of mind. "We're on the main gate and they get to go in for free, and so we never really see anybody important," she said. "As a matter of fact, people ask us what's going on. Or where's Tiger? Which hole? And we have no idea because we're way out in the boonies …
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Karen Sorensen
2:57 pm on Friday, September 10, 2010
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