tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post7810322818146706166..comments2024-03-06T08:29:13.333-08:00Comments on stuff white people do: use way too much land to play an arrogantly wasteful gamemacon dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-58273142853301727812009-02-28T11:31:00.000-08:002009-02-28T11:31:00.000-08:00Yay! the death of golf courses! one good effect of...Yay! the death of golf courses! one good effect of our sinking economy. i hope. i always did think it was an "arrogant waste" of land. for a silly, silly ass game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-11584541197670139772009-02-09T15:18:00.000-08:002009-02-09T15:18:00.000-08:00The economy is tanking, the American Way of Life i...The economy is tanking, the American Way of Life is dying, and golf courses and its culture will probably go the way of the dodo bird. Now, with that good news, perhaps we will turn "our" land back to agriculture (you know, grow food instead of lawn) for use for the greater good:<BR/><BR/><A>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Sand-trap-Sour-economy-snags-apf-14288268.html</A><BR/><BR/><I>Saddlebrook Golf Course took a look at the bottom line and decided it was time to cut some deals, offering a two-year membership for nearly 80 percent off the normal daily rate. In neighboring Illinois, greens fees at the Greenview Golf Club in Centralia are down from $35 a round to $23, which includes a cart. The struggling economy has buried many golf courses in a financial sand trap, forcing owners to offer deep discounts to keep players and recruit new members. Others are putting up "for sale" signs or seeking new financing to stave off foreclosure. "Nobody's making a living," said Greenview owner Tom Wargo, the 1993 Senior PGA champion and 1994 Senior British Open champion. Indeed, with the economic meltdown affecting even such sports superpowers as the NFL and NASCAR, it's understandable that recreational golf is hurting.<BR/><BR/>Golf has always been a pricey pastime. The median rate for a round of 18 holes at a public course is about $40, and private club memberships can run well into the thousands of dollars. Now throw in a recession and a tough situation for the nearly 16,000 public and private courses in the United States becomes even worse, said Mike David, executive director of the Indiana Golf Office, the umbrella group for the state PGA and other golf programs. "It's not that there are fewer people playing," he said. "The problem is they're not playing enough rounds." The National Golf Foundation reports golfers played about 498 million rounds in 2007. That number dropped about 8 million, or 1.6 percent, through the end of November, the most recent month surveyed, said Jim Kass, research director of the Jupiter, Fla.-based foundation. The result is that more golf courses are closing than opening, a sharp change from as recently as 2001, when 252 more courses opened than closed. The National Golf Foundation says 113 courses opened and 121 closed in 2007, and 2008 -- for which it did not have final numbers -- was on track to post the lowest number of openings in two decades...</I>redcatbikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08645491470348404443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-39617477798296126622009-02-07T10:52:00.000-08:002009-02-07T10:52:00.000-08:00I hear you, FilthyGradeur. There was a private gol...I hear you, FilthyGradeur. There was a private golf course near my house in a white suburb when I was growing up, but still, no one in the suburb was a club member, mostly because they couldn't afford to be. The club's members all lived in better (richer) suburbs, or in other parts of the country, and the world. But then, not all golf courses are private.<BR/><BR/>Thanks Kit for pointing out that there have been good reasons for passing for something other than black. And I miss George too. Come to think of it, I wonder if in <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dozens#The_dozens_in_comedy" REL="nofollow">some</A> of his routines, he was sort of passing FOR black. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the link, Anonymous, I hadn't heard of that course. I wonder about this part of its description: <BR/><BR/><I>The entire landscape of the course in its parkland setting is a significant amenity. From its farthest northern point, the golf course provides a magnificent and historic vista of undeveloped, open space along the Anacostia River basin.</I><BR/><BR/>Is a giant carpet of weed-free lawn that leaks pesticides into streams and rivers really "undeveloped"? Or is this some different sort of golf course?macon dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-45657470328290817082009-02-07T10:30:00.000-08:002009-02-07T10:30:00.000-08:00Then there's the place where my dad golfs: http://...Then there's the place where my dad golfs: http://www.langstonjunior.org/legacy.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-34573129443478365632009-02-06T19:31:00.000-08:002009-02-06T19:31:00.000-08:00I cosign with the above commenter - Lord I miss Ge...I cosign with the above commenter - Lord I miss George Carlin! I don't remember seeing that skit; it was good. <BR/><BR/>About Tiger Woods... I really don't know what it's like to me him, or a number of the biracial people out there who genuinely feel like they're not one or the other when it comes to race. <I>Most</I> biracial black folks I know identify with being black because that's how others perceive them, making it silly to say you're white or Asian but don't look like that. <BR/><BR/>Some people who can pass as ABB (anything but black) have historically because it was to their social and economic benefit to. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, that's another discussion, lol. I've never played golf.Kit (Keep It Trill)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03027769872237001801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-528074983146803930.post-24574459040187324242009-02-06T09:42:00.000-08:002009-02-06T09:42:00.000-08:00ah i miss you george carlin...i'm glad you wrote t...ah i miss you george carlin...<BR/>i'm glad you wrote this post. i totally agree. i always thought that this was a terrible waste, and for such a stupid and boring purpose! <BR/><BR/>i grew up in michigan, in a suburb of detroit, in Southfield. There is a golf course there, and i always noticed how even though the city is predominately black, the majority of golfers were white, and indicated by the cars parked in the lot, clearly rich. these are people who do not live in the city, commuting to a golf course that few locals ever saw the inside of, except to work at.FilthyGrandeurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08939478425921080818noreply@blogger.com