I notice that a chap called Hunter Mahan is tied for 2nd at the early stages of the FBR Open, whatever that is.

I'm not picking on Hunter at all but I wanted to use him as an example just to canvass opinion on a subject.

The PGA website records a huge amount of stats on each player so I thought I'd find out a little more about Hunter because he's not familiar to me. Hunter's currently ranked 133 in the world and in 2004 he played 30 tournaments. His best result was 2nd in the Reno-Tahoe open (were any of the top players in the field?). He had two other top tens, made the cut 16 times. His prize money netted him a cool $800,000.

Now obviously to even play on the PGA tour this guy is a fine golfer; but does anyone think that his achievements do not justify the prize money?

Just to re-emphasis, I'm not picking on Hunter I just harbour a suspicion that with a lot of the top players being quite selective now on the tournaments they play that there are lots of PGA events with big purses but average fields.