Like golfers everywhere, I was cheered by my colleague Kelly McParland’s defence of our game against woke charges that it is elitist. “In defence of golf as a middle-class sport,” his piece was called, and, thanks to the miracle of the internet, it really was read by golfers everywhere. And there are golfers everywhere, even in Communist China, where an estimated 20 million play, despite an official ban on golf course development by that country’s wide-awoke authorities.
