SAINT SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – As Ross Berlin, the PGA Tour’s senior vice president of player affairs, made the rounds on Wednesday at the practice area at Sea Island Resort ahead of the RSM Classic, one player after another stopped him to find out if the rumors were true. Even caddies wanted to know.
“Got a minute?” asked Tony Navarro, the veteran bagman for Nick Watney. “I hear you’re retiring. You’re one of the great guys. I just want to say you’ll be sorely missed but I’m happy for you.”
Berlin, 65, has let it be known that March 13, the final round of the Players Championship, will be his final day at the PGA Tour, where he’s worked in various stints for a total of 24 years.
“To me, it’s an accomplishment. That’s why you work, right? You work until you don’t have to,” he said. “I’ve achieved a lot of my objectives, financial and non-financial, which were modest and I’m out.”
He added: “It’s the fourth quarter and I’ve got it figured out.”
Berlin attended Wake Forest University on a baseball scholarship, but early in his college days he shifted his focus to his future. “I asked legendary golf coach Jesse Haddock for some career advice on how to become a sports agent,” Berlin told the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School alumni publication in June 2017. “He directed me to a gentleman named Vinny Giles, a Richmond, Virginia, lawyer who owned a sports agency representing professional golfers such as Lanny Wadkins, Tom Kite, Jay Haas, and several others. He said: ‘If I were a young man, I would get a law degree. I would practice law for about six or seven years to learn how to zealously represent a client. Then, if I still wanted to become a sports agent or manager, I would hang out my shingle and get to it.’ I found that advice to be profound, simple, and direct and that became my focus and the reason I decided to go to law school.”
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