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<\/p>\n18th hole ruins Taylor Pendrith\u2019s day at PGA Championship, three Canadians make cut<\/p>\n
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NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. \u2014 There\u2019s a lot of money on the line this week at the PGA Championship, but for two players on the leaderboard at Aronimink Golf Club the $3.89 million winner\u2019s cheque would amount to little more than a rounding error to their family fortune.<\/p>\n
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Overnight leader Maverick McNealy has earned $22.5 million on the PGA Tour and has been ranked as high as 10th in the world.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis is obviously new territory for me,\u201d McNealy said after Friday\u2019s round of co-leading a major. \u201cBut I am confident that it\u2019s going to go into the experience bank, and good or bad, I\u2019m going to learn a lot from it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd really excited to test my game in ways it hasn\u2019t been tested before, and I think this is the next step for me as a professional is competing and playing well in this type of tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n
A decade ago, though, the Stanford business grad was torn between pursuing a life as a pro golfer and a potential career in investment banking.<\/p>\n
McNealy\u2019s father co-founded Sun Microsystems<\/p>\n
It\u2019s quite likely that doors in the boardroom would have opened quickly for the whip-smart McNealy, considering his father Scott McNealy is co-founder of Sun Microsystems. As CEO of the company, the elder McNealy oversaw the company\u2019s 2010 sale to Oracle for a reported $7.4 billion. McNealy has an estimated net worth of $1 billion and last year sold the family\u2019s California home (complete with a hockey rink) for $35 million.<\/p>\n
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McNealy, 30, and his three brothers were avid hockey players growing up and all played for the San Jose Junior Sharks minor hockey team.<\/p>\n
Last week, many PGA Tour golf fans were introduced to another billionaire heir, when Norway\u2019s Kristoffer\u00a0Reitan took home $3.6 million for winning the Truist Championship, an elevated event played at Quail Hollow in North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Reitan\u2019s grandfather started retail business<\/p>\n
Reitan, 28, might not have been a familiar name to most North Americans, but back home he might be right up there with Elsa and Anna with an estimated family fortune of $9 billion. His grandfather Odd Reitan started a retail business that includes over 1,000 stores, and his sister Viktoria Reitan is a popular singer in Norway.<\/p>\n
Four years ago, disillusioned with the game, Reitan seriously considered giving up his dreams of playing professional golf. His fallback plan wasn\u2019t the family business, however it was YouTube golf.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just had some thoughts about how to make the game a little bit more fun, a little bit more relaxed,\u201d Reitan said last week after his win. \u201cI was just trying to find ways to make it more fun to give my journey in golf a little bit of energy, and trying to have fun while I\u2019m playing so that I can endure the hardships that follow, yeah, with professional golf.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve got some friends that are trying to break through, at least in the Norwegian space, which is obviously significantly less than the international space, but still I try to tag along with them a little bit on one of their episodes,\u201d he added. \u201cSo, yeah, it was just something I was playing around with and I actually had some serious chats with some production companies to try and maybe bring it to fruition, but, yeah, just never really got there.\u201d<\/p>\n
If McNealy and Reitan end up in the same group on Sunday, what are the chances they add a little side game to make it worth their while?<\/p>\n
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