The head-turning reward is dangling there, tantalizingly, like the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
It is right there flashing like a neon sign, urging the leaders in the Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic presented by Samsung to gaze into the future and get too far ahead of themselves Saturday night. The idea is for those in contention to project what the first-place prize would do for them for the remainder of the 2008 Nationwide Tour season.
That's the trick of the temptation in this trade. And that's what happens when the Gretzky champion will walk away from the Georgian Bay Golf Club aware that a deposit for $144,017 will show up in his bank account by the end of business Wednesday.
"Ssssssshhhhh,'' Keith Nolan exhaled when asked to master the possibilities of what a check with six figures before the decimal point might do for him and his quest to gain playing privileges on the PGA TOUR for the third time. "That's the kind of stuff I've been working with my shrink (sports psychologist) on. All I'll be thinking about it hitting the first shot in the fairway.''
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