Is golf vulnerable to a gambling scandal? | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in The Undercover Newsletter, where we grant anonymity to people in golf who’ve got something to say. Here a current PGA Tour player is interviewed by Senior Writer Joel Beall.

As legalized sports gambling began to become prevalent, my former instructor asked me if I was worried it was going to affect me. I laughed. There are people at my own club who don’t know my PGA Tour status, so no chance the common fan knows me, let alone cares enough about me to bet on me. Golf gambling would be focused solely on the superstars, I thought. I had no idea how wrong I was.

I watch other sports. It feels like every other commercial is an ad for a new sportsbook or online betting app. Same with billboards on the fields. And of course, sports gambling has been in the news recently for the wrong reasons. The translator for baseball’s Shohei …