Hello, welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

I'm Zawadim Thibaut and to tea of today's program.

It's not like any other sport where you get paid, even, let's just say soccer.

You get paid even if you're sitting on the bench or if you're injured.

With golf, there's nothing like that.

You have to make the cut for you to make money.

Yes, golf, whilst lovers of the sport

describe it as both addictive and fulfilling,

a growing number of professional golfers in Africa

have told us they've had to take on other jobs to make ends meet.

I do driving. I do Uber. I do Uber. When I live golf, I do driving in the evening.

Someone could call me, pick me up here, I want to go somewhere else, you know, such kind of

things. Defining the blurry line between passion and profit.

You know, we have not progressed because most of these clubs, as I said, they are

private clubs and some of the members who started playing golf fund.

Probably they were a bit selfish not to try and encourage more players.

We highlight the paradox that whilst golf can be affordable at a very basic level,

trying to make a career out of it can quickly escalate into a significant financial burden.

It would be good for Africans to come together.

Assuming you have the Kenya Open in Kenya, you have the Uganda Open, Uganda, Zambia open, Zimbabwe open, Nigerian Open, all these opens.

And we have a sizable price money.

Even if we start with $100,000 per event in Africa,

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