You don't need to read the board to tell who hasn't done well. You read pained faces and try to avoid stepping on chins. I'm probably the least popular guy around. The numbers I put up aren't telling a nice story for about 100 players. Bummers extend to wives and girlfriends and caddies and friends.
Livelihoods are at stake.
The Tour carrot doesn't dangle, it intoxicates. Professional golf is a sport of hangers-on. In basketball, if you can't dunk by 17, you give up the NBA dream. In baseball, if you can't hit a curve or .200, you don't last a season, unless you're Michael Jordan. In golf, the fantasy never dies.