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  "fx_usdjpy": 156.96,
  "cases": [
    {
      "person": "Hannah Gregg",
      "period": "2024 LET initial event week; reported 2024-04-26",
      "kind": "self disclosure reported by GolfWRX",
      "source_ids": [
        "GREGG24"
      ],
      "result": "made cut, 54th",
      "currency": "USD",
      "prize": 1244,
      "expenses": {
        "flights": 2600,
        "work_visa": 350,
        "food": 377,
        "gas": 165,
        "entry_fee": 130,
        "caddie_lounge": 50,
        "caddie": 0,
        "hotel": 0,
        "rental_car": 0,
        "gym": 0,
        "yardage_book": 0
      },
      "expense_total": 3672,
      "before_tax_balance": -2428,
      "prize_jpy": "195258.24",
      "expense_total_jpy": "576357.12",
      "before_tax_balance_jpy": "-381098.88",
      "noncash_support": [
        "fiance caddied without pay",
        "host housing arranged by Greg Chalmers",
        "car lent by Tour Tee"
      ],
      "scope": "One week, not annual household income. No uniform tax rate applied; flights/visa not mechanically repeated each week."
    },
    {
      "person": "須江唯加",
      "period": "2024 opening event, interview 2024-04-12",
      "source_ids": [
        "SUE24"
      ],
      "qt_rank": 41,
      "result": "Travelled to Okinawa but did not get a start",
      "known_jpy": {
        "one_way_flight_from_kobe_approx": 12000,
        "one_week_car_approx": 20000,
        "weekly_apartment_approx": 30000
      },
      "known_partial_sum_jpy": 62000,
      "excluded_unknown": [
        "return flight",
        "travel to Kobe",
        "food",
        "other costs"
      ],
      "scope": "Partial sum from an interview. Not full event cost or annual income."
    },
    {
      "person": "日高将史",
      "period": "2017-10-06 report, past case",
      "source_ids": [
        "HIDAKA16"
      ],
      "income_types": [
        "individual lessons",
        "part-time school coaching"
      ],
      "prior_work": "Two years of indoor lessons at HONMA shop, starting about five years before report",
      "support": "Main event invitation through continuing relationship; article explicitly says not HONMA equipment contract player",
      "amounts": null,
      "scope": "Historical case, not current 2026 household condition. Source ID is legacy mnemonic; actual article date is 2017."
    },
    {
      "person": "前田陽子",
      "period": "2013 and earlier / 2014-11-16 report",
      "source_ids": [
        "MAEDA14"
      ],
      "income_types": [
        "cardboard-factory part-time work through 2013"
      ],
      "regular_starts_through_2013": 6,
      "regular_career_prize_through_2013_jpy_approx": 740000,
      "first_win_2014_prize_jpy": 18000000,
      "scope": "74万円 is cumulative through 2013, not 2013 annual income. Current financial status unknown."
    },
    {
      "person": "Hannah Gregg",
      "period": "2021 -> 2023 -> 2024",
      "source_ids": [
        "GREGG21",
        "GREGGIX21",
        "GREGGGM24"
      ],
      "timeline": [
        {
          "year": 2021,
          "types": [
            "multiple part-time jobs",
            "paid social media work",
            "Q-school crowdfunding"
          ],
          "qschool_entry_and_related_cost_usd_approx": 3000,
          "excluded": [
            "housing",
            "travel",
            "food"
          ]
        },
        {
          "year": 2021,
          "types": [
            "Mizuno equipment sponsorship and appearances",
            "paid brand posts",
            "Short Game Gains practice-aid business",
            "Cozy Co. Social social-media management"
          ],
          "note": "Interview calls SNS management main income in first two professional years. No individual annual amounts."
        },
        {
          "year": 2023,
          "types": [
            "Carry financing in exchange for future earnings share"
          ],
          "note": "2024 interview looking back. No amount assigned to Gregg."
        },
        {
          "year": 2024,
          "types": [
            "unpaid caddie",
            "host housing",
            "lent car"
          ],
          "note": "Costs reduced for disclosed LET week, not added as cash income."
        }
      ],
      "scope": "Funding methods over time, not annual earnings series. Business sales not treated as personal pay; investment not a gift."
    },
    {
      "person": "Alex Romo",
      "period": "2024 Asher Tour event, reported 2025-02-13",
      "source_ids": [
        "ROMO24"
      ],
      "currency": "USD",
      "prize": 0,
      "expense_total": 2490,
      "before_tax_balance": -2490,
      "expense_total_jpy": "390830.40",
      "scope": "Single mini-tour event, not annual cashflow. Break-even T7 applies only to disclosed event."
    },
    {
      "person": "Alistair Docherty",
      "period": "2020-2021 recollection in 2026 interview / 2024 official press conference",
      "source_ids": [
        "DOC24",
        "DOC26"
      ],
      "income_support_types": [
        "caddying at Silverleaf",
        "support from people including Riggs"
      ],
      "scope": "Past funding difficulties and later recovery, not a claim about current 2026 poverty. No annual income assigned."
    },
    {
      "person": "James Nicholas",
      "period": "2025 season, reported 2025-10-19",
      "source_ids": [
        "NICH25"
      ],
      "currency": "USD",
      "reported_revenue": 255057,
      "reported_expenses_approx": 150000,
      "reported_surplus_approx": 104000,
      "known_revenue_items_approx": {
        "KFT": 173500,
        "US_Open_week_mainly_sponsor_bonuses": 43500
      },
      "not_explained_by_two_revenue_items_approx": 38057,
      "scope": "Positive cashflow comparison, not a marginal-living case or typical KFT income. Expense and net rounded by source; coverage of all private annual income and taxes unclear. Do not force rounded values to add exactly."
    }
  ],
  "privacy": "Only publicly self-disclosed or interviewed financial facts. No estimate of named player hardship from rankings."
}