How will you compare sports before and sports today?

Question

Please make your answers long coz I have this question in an essay homework

Answer 1

As a professional golfer I saw big changes when the money got big, not just golf, the other sports too. The athletes have changed in most sports, but golf especially. Many trained since childhood to be a parent's meal ticket, parents hanging on to their country club membership when they could least afford it, to keep junior's college scholarship and PGA tour hopes alive, hoping someone would come along and help junior.

Junior would cast his lot with some teacher, hope for the best.

Next, during and after college, junior is tutored night and day,
instructors hired to go around the tour stops with players.
It has gotten to a point where a young player gets a game bought for him, if the parents have to 2nd mortgage the house to bet on Junior's horse to come in. He is their retirement, and there are six other families from the same college and/or country club,
thinking Junior is coming in to be their meal ticket, most of them filthy rich in the first place.

The gashouse gang is long gone, the players who loved to travel and play every week, money was kind of secondary, loved what they were doing.