Is golf a "rich man's" sport?

2-iron
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:06:28 +0000

Golf is not neccessarily a rich man’s sport…but in general, it is.

If you go to the run-down municipal course I play at on Friday afternoons for $11, you’ll find a lot of guys in jeans with cheap, old clubs. I’ve played with a bunch of them, and they are generally blue collar or middle class.

If you go to the AMAZING country club where I work, you’re going to find a bunch of 50-year old white men wearing clothes that cost hundreds of dollars, using clubs that cost thousands of dollars, and talking about the lobster dinner they had last night.

Golf is expensive in general because of the clientele and its addicting nature…if it wasn’t addictive, people wouldn’t be willing to fork over ten thousand dollars for lessons to go from shooting 90 to shooting 85 or five hundred dollars to get a driver that goes five yards further than the old one.

I personally spend a couple thousand dollars each year on golf, and I pay for it entirely (almost) with my own money. Ironically, my income comes from golf…heh.