At 19, he took a job collecting golf balls at a local driving range.
His heart was broken and he was a fragile thing, and if all he could face was collecting golf balls then that was fine by me.
Small wonder that Ochoa, a 26-year-old Mexican star, has collected corporate sponsorships the way some pros collect golf clubs: Mexican banks and the national airline, a German automaker, a luxury Swiss watchmaker, a large golf club manufacturer based in Arizona, the country club in Guadalajara where she learned the game and still lives.
It's the driver from Volkswagen, here to collect my Golf GTI, tapping on the window.
"It was 14 acres of high grass — a vacant out-of-bounds area, used for nothing but collecting wayward golf shots for 80 years," Silverman said.
A slim, engaging businessman who dislikes golf, collects historical furnishings and has a beard, Mr. Parr brings an unusual level of financial expertise and prominence to the unpaid job of orchestra chairman.
"My husband used to collect all these golf guides," Mrs. Lopez said.
His financial disclosure documents instead portray more of a family business that primarily collects rents – from those playing golf at his courses, from those staying at his hotels, but most of all from those licensing his name for use on their own buildings.
Little is known about him, though he is said to be thrifty, collects old typewriters and loves to golf.
"The core of the participants came from the Golf Collectors Society, people who had spent years collecting these beautiful old golf clubs made by legendary Scottish makers and had always wondered what it would be like to actually play with them in the conditions that prevailed when they were popular.
