In considering LIV Golf’s polarizing offer, Harold Varner III had seen too much to lie
Tour, but he retained his card and, in 2018, attended a presentation for a new tour concept underwritten by Saudi Arabia. He signed with the Jordan Brand and sometimes teed it up with His Airness himself, adding Jordan to a growing stable of mentors and advisers.
With his foot problems worsening, Varner wondered how much money could buy a decade of financial security. Or a lifetime. Or forever. At least at first, Harold II wasn’t wild about moving to The Land. A son providing for his parents generates particularly odd feelings, no matter how well-meaning or well-off he is. The new house was fine, the property quiet and sprawling, but what was wrong with his home up the road and to the left? He had paid for it with his own money three decades ago, earned and saved from his commissions from Arnold Palmer Cadillac.In 1993, Harold II was burned out and broke.
Harold III may not care about trophies, but his daddy does. His little three-bedroom on the corner was a token of his sacrifices and gambles; the distance he had traveled from duct-taped sneakers in Akron to penny loafers in Charlotte. It’s where he honed his golf game to become a 6 handicap. It was something that belonged to him.
“If you said I can’t play in the majors,” he says, “I’d be fine. I’ve accepted that. I was cool with it. But some of these motherf---ers, they want their cake and eat it too, I guess. Like, dude, you knew it was going to be bad. Like going against the f---ing U.S. government: Good luck, man.”Last spring, when the predominant golf story was LIV and who’s-going vs. who’s-staying, Harold III played in his first Masters. He finished in a tie for 23rd and pocketed $138,250.
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