Via Paul Vitello at American Scene the NY Times has an article on the decline of golf.
“The problem is time,” offered Walter Hurney, a real estate developer.
“There just isn’t enough time. Men won’t spend a whole day away from
their family anymore."...The total number of people who play has declined or remained flat each
year since 2000, dropping to about 26 million from 30 million,
according to the National Golf Foundation and the Sporting Goods
Manufacturers Association.
I think Tiger Woods is a cool guy, but otherwise there’s not much about golf I like. Mini-golf is fun but adapting Mark Twain, golf courses strike me as a good park ruined. I’m sure I could throw together a good political justification if I actually wanted to. But from a simple self-interest approach, I’m hoping I can do political networking without learning to play. But mainly it’s personal.
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