Does anyone knows how many American professional Golf players play golf for a living?

QUESTION:
Someone told me there are over 20,000 golf players in the US today but i doubt it, does anyone knows?

ANSWER:

Answer by Julian
believe it brother!!! just on a tiny scale……I played a golf tournament yesterday and there was a field of 120 players. now thats just a fraction of players at one golf course. Now lets add that to all golf cousres that hold tournaments. All the classes of different handicapps. and there are states like Arizona and California,Nevada, that has great golfing weather all year around. Don’t ever undestimate. Golf has alot of paticipants.