No, we might not know the players personally, but pro golfers generally act like gentlemen while in the public eye. More so than any other sport. When you have people like Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Crenshaw, and Tom Watson as examples of how to conduct yourself around the fans and reporters, the tour players of today have to continue the tradition those people set. And for the most part they do. The only guy on the tour that I've don't have any respect for, from a public perception point of view, is Tommy Amour because it is common knowlege that he sold his clubs to buy dope - the man is a complete moron for that reason alone. I've listened to John Feinstein on the radio, the excellent author on several sports books, and he says that the guys on tour are easily the easiest to approach and are more aware of current events outside of their sport than other well known athletes. I've played a round of golf earlier this summer with a sports writer and he echoed those sentiments. 2nd place went to, in this guy's opinion, and somewhat suprisingly to me, went to pro hockey players. Apparently, off the ice most of them have a completly different demeanor.