Individual athletes including triathletes, golfers and cyclists were found to have higher symptoms of depression than team players in games that included volleyball, rugby and football.
(Golfers strike individual deals with caddies, but in general caddies make $1,200 a week, plus a percentage of any winnings: 5% for making the cut, 7% for a top-ten finish and 10% for a victory. Nationwide caddies get the same percentages but are paid $300 less a week).
"There's an old saying, 'Beware of the ailing golfer.' When individuals aren't feeling well, myself in this instance, I tend to play more within myself.
The golfer with the most individual titles, Andrew Svoboda, plays mainly on the Nationwide Tour.
IT was a new experience for Tim Connors, the Iona Prep golfer who won every individual and team championship available to him as a junior this past season.
As for individual sports, the top women's golfer, Annika Sorenstam Annika Sorenstam, earns about $5 million a year on the course and from sponsors like Callaway Golf and Microsoft.
This process has shown me how to befriend uncertainty and allow the shifting sands of its presence to make me stronger, both as a golfer and as an individual.
Individual sponsorship packages for sports stars fare no better, with the golfer Rory McIlroy's £150m Nike deal almost 10 times that earned by the tennis player Laura Robson and the athletics stars Ennis-Hill and Christine Ohuruogu, who each attracted sponsorship of £195,000.
Ms. Dunbar, herself a golfer, doesn't know who will bid on these clubs: individual collectors, golfers or owners of golf courses.
Those barges have the distinction of offering golf to individual couples, not requiring that the entire barge be chartered by golfers.
