{"id":26530,"date":"2024-12-29T11:43:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T11:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/affordable-golf-courses-are-a-key-issue\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T19:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:03:24","slug":"affordable-golf-courses-are-a-key-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/en\/affordable-golf-courses-are-a-key-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable golf courses are a key issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k7djv9qv-91bfe5d78342031cf70e8b193b7da01a\">\n.avia-image-container.av-k7djv9qv-91bfe5d78342031cf70e8b193b7da01a img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-k7djv9qv-91bfe5d78342031cf70e8b193b7da01a .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-k7djv9qv-91bfe5d78342031cf70e8b193b7da01a av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first '  ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-26521 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-26521 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Green-natural-waterfall-photo-collage-25-x-16-cm-1.jpg\" alt='Golfer und CO2-Fu\u00dfabdruck' title='Golfer und CO2-Fu\u00dfabdruck'  height=\"924\" width=\"1444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Green-natural-waterfall-photo-collage-25-x-16-cm-1.jpg 1444w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Green-natural-waterfall-photo-collage-25-x-16-cm-1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Green-natural-waterfall-photo-collage-25-x-16-cm-1-1030x659.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Green-natural-waterfall-photo-collage-25-x-16-cm-1-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Green-natural-waterfall-photo-collage-25-x-16-cm-1-705x451.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1444px) 100vw, 1444px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k7oqhpp9-da03cf06dbb0906818d297c217c04766\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-k7oqhpp9-da03cf06dbb0906818d297c217c04766{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-k7oqhpp9-da03cf06dbb0906818d297c217c04766 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-k7oqhpp9-da03cf06dbb0906818d297c217c04766 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-k7oqhpp9-da03cf06dbb0906818d297c217c04766 av-special-heading-h1 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_image  el_before_av_textblock '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  >Affordable golf courses are a key issue<\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k7djfsv1-d7164b20b6afa03fb9ae021f541a5e80 '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><p>How is the position of golf developing within society? We wanted to find out from <strong>Orin Starn, Professor of Anthropology and History at the renowned American Duke University<\/strong>. Starn, whose research often focuses on the relationship between different sports and society as a whole, is the author of several books. These include <strong>Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports in Golf, Race and Celebrity Scandal<\/strong>. In the past, Starn&#8217;s articles have been published in newspapers and magazines such as <strong>The New Yorker<\/strong> and the <strong>Los Angeles Times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Orin, please tell us how you got into golf?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Orin Starn: \u00a0I started playing when I was 11 or 12.\u00a0 Neither of my parents played golf, but all of my grandparents played golf. So for me, golf was a gift because it was a way for me to connect with them. I \u00a0grew up in Berkeley, California, and there&#8217;s a golf course called Tilden Park \u2013 a legendarily hilly municipal course \u2013 where I played. It was strange to play golf in Berkeley in the 1960s and 70s, because Berkeley was a left-wing campus town, the so-called People\u2019s Republic of Berkeley, and there was the summer of love, and hippies, and protests.\u00a0 Golf and its more conservative vibe didn&#8217;t seem to go along with all of that very well. I kept playing into my early 20s, stopped for a decade or so, as my body stopped wanting to play soccer and other more demanding sports.\u00a0 I also moved then to North Carolina to become a professor at Duke University and we have such great courses in this area \u2013 Pinehurst, Pine Needles, Tobacco Road\u00a0 and so many more \u2013 that it seemed a shame not to play. I get out once a week or so now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As an expert in anthropology, you also look at golf from a social and political perspective. How would you describe the current situation of American golf?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Orin Starn: There are two traditions of golf: One is the more country club tradition, which is more exclusive with an earlier history of discrimination. Women, Black Americans and sometimes Jews were not welcome for many decades. It remains expensive. But there was also always the tradition of municipal golf, a more democratic golf tradition of public courses. Any city in America or even town of any size has a public municipal course where it&#8217;s usually not too expensive to play. Although golf is still viewed in America as a sport for wealthy people, really it&#8217;s a pretty wide demographic that plays golf here in the U.S. It&#8217;s still a bit haunted by its country club past, but in other ways it has just become another sport in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s talk about the future of golf. How important is social acceptance for the future when we talk about discussions such as land use?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Orin Starn: We definitely had a progress in the greening of golf courses and greater awareness of sustainability issues in the U.S. The place where you hear the most complaints in the United States about golf is probably in the Southwest and in areas like Phoenix and Tucson, which are in the desert and where water scarcity is on people\u2019s minds. In terms of access for people of all backgrounds, programs like First Tee or Girls Golf are important, because golf has to be inclusive. Golf has made some progress in terms of attracting a more diverse group of players in the normal clubs, where, for example, the number of Black golfers has grown considerably. But that is not reflected on the PGA Tour, where we had Tiger and then since barely any Black pros at all. The PGA Tour has certainly become more diverse with more Asian players, but regarding black players it seems if anything, we&#8217;ve gone backwards in the numbers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-pl8ks5-6e2d46996681a07779e2ed889f587fff\">\n.avia-image-container.av-pl8ks5-6e2d46996681a07779e2ed889f587fff img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-pl8ks5-6e2d46996681a07779e2ed889f587fff .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-pl8ks5-6e2d46996681a07779e2ed889f587fff av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '  ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-26524 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-26524 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/shutterstock_1190732836-300x200.jpg\" alt='' title='Bethesda,,Md-jul,1:,Tiger,Woods,Waits,To,Tee,Off,On'  height=\"200\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/shutterstock_1190732836-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/shutterstock_1190732836-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/shutterstock_1190732836-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/shutterstock_1190732836-1500x1000.jpg 1386w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/shutterstock_1190732836-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/shutterstock_1190732836-scaled.jpg 1387w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lwg9wjls-e8b941512268f670ed689daa2cec5336 '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><p><em><strong>How can this be changed?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orin Starn: The one thing that I feel like we need is for affordable golf to be expanded. We see the building of many \u00a0very expensive boutique new courses, with green fees of a couple of hundred dollars or more. And you don&#8217;t see a lot of new public courses getting built. \u00a0Here in North Carolina public courses\u00a0 tend to be very packed.\u00a0 Less affluent golfers are finding themselves choosing between six hour rounds at municipal courses that are overcrowded or not playing golf at all. So expanded access to reasonably priced courses seems to me a key issue as far as it comes to golf and politics.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In terms of climate change, we see famous athletes advocating for behaviour change in certain sports. There is no famous golfer who does that. Is golf apolitical?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orin Starn: Orin Starn: In other sports we have LeBron James or a number of famous athletes like Megan Rapinoe, the soccer player, who are not shy speaking about racism or LGBTQ rights or other social issues.\u00a0 By contrast, I can&#8217;t think of a professional golfer taking a strong political stance about anything. There have been surveys of the political leanings of U.S. professional players. And, you know, most of them are Republicans and Trump voters. Jack Nicklaus endorsed Trump. So I think many of these golfers either don&#8217;t have political views or if they do, they&#8217;re pretty conservative ones. And they&#8217;re not likely to join protests for climate or racial justice or other causes that might rock the boat.<\/p>\n<div hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/vision-2050-lasst-uns-ueber-gras-sprechen\/\" class='avia-iframe-wrap'>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Tk3bAmjF88\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/en\/vision-2050-lets-talk-about-grass\/\">Vision 2050: Lasst uns \u00fcber Gras sprechen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Vision 2050: Lasst uns \u00fcber Gras sprechen&#8221; &#8212; Golf Sustainable\" src=\"https:\/\/golfsustainable.com\/en\/vision-2050-lets-talk-about-grass\/embed\/#?secret=GqyP7840uZ#?secret=Tk3bAmjF88\" data-secret=\"Tk3bAmjF88\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Professional golf seems to be at a turning point in terms of the future of tours and sponsorship. Will this lead to a greater divide between amateur and professional golf in the future?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orin Starn: It&#8217;s an interesting moment because TV ratings are down for golf in the U.S. Because of corporate sponsorships and because there&#8217;s a lot of money to be made in streaming golf tournaments, there&#8217;s still a lot of money in professional golf. But, personally, I can&#8217;t remember a time in the last 10 or 15 years when I was less interested in professional golf. Partly because Tiger&#8217;s not playing, who with his charisma and golf genius was always a must-watch. But I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a moment where there&#8217;s a lot of gripping, interesting personalities in professional golf. And yet, conversely, the United States is a time where everyday recreational golf and the numbers of golfers is really flourishing and growing, with the pandemic part of the explanation as people looked for outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you believe that golf in the USA will be able to adapt to the challenges of climate change in the future?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orin Starn: In North Carolina for example, almost all courses have changed from bentgrass to bermuda, because summers have gotten progressively hotter. You see less watering, too, more waste areas. For the moment, golf has been able to adapt. But how long will that be possible as the consequences and effects of climate change become more inescapable?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The adaptation of golf will cost money. The golfer will have to pay. How difficult is it to get the average golfer excited about change?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orin Stark: When I play golf and talk to other golfers, I don&#8217;t find a lot of people who are thinking about much else than having a good time, relaxing, and getting a beer in the clubhouse. I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a very strong level of self-awareness among golfers about the political, social, environmental context of golf. \u00a0And, as mentioned, the professional golf tour is very depoliticized. It&#8217;s a shame because there are so many interesting issues and challenges around sustainability in golf. But I don&#8217;t think that we will be seeing that reflected in big protests, like in England at Manchester United, when regular fans were no longer able to go to a match in the stadium. Those kinds of protests are unimaginable in golf, with its more establishment feel. Maybe it&#8217;s because it has always been a more expensive sport or because people have more education.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Why is it so difficult to get golfers interested in sustainability?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orin Stark: Many clubs have this rhetoric of sustainability. We read this: \u201cWe&#8217;re protecting the land, we&#8217;re not using a lot of water, we&#8217;re using non-invasive plants, we&#8217;re using sand from local quarries\u201d. It all sounds good, although I\u2019m not sure how much of it is more cosmetic \u201cgreenwashing\u201d or amounts to real change.\u00a0 For example, I played at Bandon Dunes in Oregon, which embraces sustainability.\u00a0 But everyone is flying in to play from thousands of miles away.\u00a0 Probably, the net carbon emissions balance of the courses there is really lousy for that reason, but we tend not to think about that part of it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Orin, if you were president of the USGA for a week and had to make golf in the USA fit for the year 2050, what would you do?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orin Stark: Wow, that&#8217;s a great question. I would build more affordable public golf courses, finding money for that. Number two, \u00a0I would do everything possible to promote golf courses that are genuinely environmentally sustainable. And third, promote golf as a sport for everybody. When we look at the leadership in golf it&#8217;s still mostly white guys, with a business blazer country club feel. 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