WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — The 220th-ranked player in the world arrived here on his private jet, refreshed after a vacation on his yacht in a luxury resort community in the Bahamas. That player, Tiger Woods, the 14-time major winner and former world No. 1 whose career earnings total over $109 million, returned to work the other day at the Greenbrier Classic at the Greenbrier Resort, an opulent oasis in the middle of West Virginia hill country.
For Jim Herman, the 224th-ranked player, the tournament was a working vacation. Herman took his wife, their two young children, his mother, his brother and his in-laws to stay with him and rented a three-bedroom cottage on the grounds.