Subcultures in Golf

This Game Takes all Types

November 17, 2005

Golf was once considered an elitist, old-man’s sport, a world where the only diversity was the hideous mixture of colors on the players’ plaid pants. But as things go in a relatively open and free society over time, golf has become accessible to almost everyone. The cookie-cutter country club types of yesteryear have had to make room for John and Jane Doe. And now there are subcultures within golf, different species of golfers, and the game has become a melting pot of personality types who are united only by their infatuation with herding little white balls into small holes with crooked sticks. Read more