Access to private golf courses: best high-roller perk ever?

GolfBallThe perks that casinos bestow upon their ‘high rollers’ are the stuff of legend: use of private jets, comped penthouse suites, female ‘companionship’… Hell, some will even do your taxes! Given golf’s popularity among the upper-income brackets, it’s no surprise that casinos are offering high rollers access to exclusive courses, so exclusive they might see only 10 guests per day. But to see these greens, you’ve got to flash the other kind of green at the gaming tables, plus you have to stay at the casino’s hotel. As one course’s general manager reveals, he once barred a Canadian prime minister from playing because he was staying at the wrong hotel. Better hope that wasn’t Jean Chretien, because that fucker’s crazy. Read more.