In 1973 golf was pretty common among American dads. Now it's heading toward being more of a game for the Obamas and the Trumps. That's not unexpected: golf requires vast amounts of land, which is increasingly expensive as the U.S. population continues to surge.https://twitter.com/MandaineE/status/1140826598020648960 …
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Replying to @Steve_Sailer
Golf in my extremely upper middle class corner of the country filled a pretty interesting niche, where it was the domain of people with 7-figure incomes, as well as the domain of solidly middle class folks, but had next to no participation from anyone in between the two.
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Replying to @W4nk_3ngine @Steve_Sailer
So there were plenty of law firm partners, bankers, traders, and such, all of whom lived in exclusive towns and golfed at the even more exclusive clubs within them, but there were also tons of plumbers, electricians, cops, firefighters, etc, playing at municipal courses.
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Replying to @W4nk_3ngine @Steve_Sailer
Case in point: My extremely upper middle class dad never touched a golf club in his life, but my wife's much more middle class dad used to golf a bunch before age and wear and tear from his physical work caught up with him.
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Replying to @W4nk_3ngine @Steve_Sailer
My hunch is that golf wasn't "hip" or "cultured" enough to appeal to the academically-oriented boomer yuppies in my metro area, and so it became the domain of the type of folks who do business at the country club, and those who honestly and unabashedly aspired to be them.
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In our culture, there's a lot of Jewish animus against golf, even though Jews were more likely than gentiles to be country club members as early as 1925, according to a Gene Sarrazin article in "American Hebrew" magazine:https://www.takimag.com/article/the_myth_of_the_golf_nazi_steve_sailer/ …
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It's funny how golf always gets labeled as this crass bastion of disconnected white elitism, and yet nobody would ever dare imply the same sorts of things about Broadway or the local symphony orchestra.
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Maybe I'm being naive but...maybe it's because golf is boring? It's the slowest-paced sport. Theater and music have higher information content per minute. Maybe a lot of hate for suburbs and golf comes from people who associate them with boring childhoods.
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