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Tom Sites wrote:
> Hello,  I was curious as to the purse money offered in the Presidents 
> Cup.  I read its 1.5 something, but how does that relate to US $$?  
> I'm also curious as to how you can compete in an event w/ considerable 
> monetary and value objects and still consider oneself an amateur in 
> the Olympic fashion.  I could never figure out how the basketball 
> players and track and field folks could do it either.  It seems if you 
> run in the Kentucky Derby w/ comparable purses you'd have to be a 
> professional as i doubt they would allow amateurs to race.  Some 
> things in life i doubt i'll ever understand.  ts
Tom,

The Olympic rules on amateurism have changed - they changed in the 80's. 
Of course that has ushered in the era of drug dominated sports.

Truman

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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended 
from man." H.L. Mencken


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