tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349848602024-03-13T08:23:04.776-07:00Golf PoliticsThe Duke of Windsor once called America "one big golf course." This blog by writer, anthropologist, and sometime journalist Orin Starn explores golf and its place in America and the world.Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-3943768541495363452023-05-25T08:08:00.011-07:002023-05-26T16:43:10.098-07:00Prestwick, Scotland, and Being Dead Otherwise“Death is death,” matter of factly says my friend, the anthropologist Anne Allison, when I share worries about aging, cancer, and the end of life’s crazy
journey. <p>Her new book <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/being-dead-otherwise"><i>Being Dead Otherwise</i></a> guides us through a Japan of corpse clean-up businesses, Buddhist prayer robots, and automated mausoleums. An
aging, atomized country is inventing new modes of funerary care for what Allison
call “the lonely dead” who may not have loved ones to see to their afterlife.</p><p>
</p><p>I was feeling morbid on a trip to Scotland a couple of weeks ago. Besides just
getting older, as we living beings do, I’ve lost some strength after my cancer
surgery, radiation, and testosterone-lowering injections. It has felt good lately
to be <a href="https://www.sapiens.org/culture/anthropology-amazon-warehouse-workers/">doing undercover fieldwork in an Amazon warehouse</a> for a new project on the
e-commerce giant. Wrangling boxes onto trucks I’ve at least put back a little
muscle, not to mention getting to feel like a working stiff except for all the
trips to the bathroom to change my diaper.</p><p> </p><p>You’ll find some golfers among
Amazon’s hundreds of thousands of workers, or “Associates” as the company
euphemizes us. My friend Barb, the champion pallet builder of Lane C, has a
regular game with friends. She makes Black on Black gal pal trips where her
group plays Black-owned golf courses around the country.</p><p> </p><p>I had gone to Scotland
for a conference about labor rights – and to get in
some Scottish links golf. </p><p>Traveling alone I’m sometimes prone to melancholy. The
Glasgow gloom didn’t cheer my mood as I headed off to play the Western Gailes
Club, only mildly guilty for shirking my conference duties.</p><p> </p><p>My grumpiness didn’t
last long. Being able to train everywhere is one of Europe’s delights, unlike
our insane American car culture. A subway and then a commuter rail took me down
to the Western Gailes Club along the Firth of Clyde with Ireland just a two hour
a ferry away.</p><p> </p><p>I loved everything about the round. The staff was welcoming as so
often at Scottish courses. Their lovely, sometimes
incomprehensible accents rank among the pleasures of playing golf in the
sport’s home. </p><p>Freddy, the starter, was apologetic about having me play
by myself. He compensated with a viewing of his starter shack collection of bag
medallions from courses worldwide before fist bumping me away off the first tee.</p><p>
</p><p>I hit weakly at first, and about to give in once more to my self-pitying inner
narrative about lost distance, lost manhood, and life’s decline. But the play of
sun and cloud together with the sea breeze made it impossible not to take
pleasure in the moment.
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<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Western Gailes 2023</span></p><p> </p><p>Like the best links
courses, Western Gailes lies easy along the sea. Remember those parachutes games
from summer camp? How gently the sheer fabric would settle on the ground when
the circle of kids lowered it? It’s as if the Western Gailes design floated down
from the sky just like that.</p><p> </p><p>You rarely feel that way about golf courses in the
U.S.. Despite the Coore-Crenshaw naturalistic trendiness, the earth-mover still
reigns supreme. My favorite old American course, Pine Needles, a classic Donald
Ross, is the rare one with that same effortless way of being on the land. </p><p>I was
reminded of the links influence on Mike Strantz, the maestro architect of
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-ncgolf9mar09-story.html">Tobacco Road</a> not far from my own hometown of Durham, North Carolina. “Every hole
should be signature hole,” Strantz supposedly said. Among many memorable ones at Tobacco Road, his par-5 12th has fascinated, mystified and frustrated many a golfer. The green sits in
what’s effectively a hole between high, shaggy mounds, making for an uncomfortable blind
shot. <br /></p><p>Playing the par-5 6th at Western Gailes also means hitting blind to a green in a hole. Strantz was a brilliantly creative artist of an architect, taken from
us, at 50, far too young from mouth cancer. Yet he also borrowed heavily from
the old seaside Irish and Scottish courses, in the case of Tobacco Road for a
course constructed in an abandoned quarry in the middle of North Carolina.</p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnmXo-yjtXJE7fQqyfVj2ND4qKZkzn0RnegkfhCPpBQ9VP0un37Wa6ZGvkr2oh_JYsMhWza0gjInBp2YBgNmZanF-SbrRc0lt-nBWZch56FzzzKxZZxeNTgH3G8i8YmmAqK8oOk0_vzrsJF9mUzWWvyJOrW1F1wTz6vtoIfoAIi4qdnlzoin0/s1500/western-gailes-6th-hole-approach.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="1500" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnmXo-yjtXJE7fQqyfVj2ND4qKZkzn0RnegkfhCPpBQ9VP0un37Wa6ZGvkr2oh_JYsMhWza0gjInBp2YBgNmZanF-SbrRc0lt-nBWZch56FzzzKxZZxeNTgH3G8i8YmmAqK8oOk0_vzrsJF9mUzWWvyJOrW1F1wTz6vtoIfoAIi4qdnlzoin0/w287-h150/western-gailes-6th-hole-approach.webp" width="287" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vvMXX9RGSUsv8HwnzPo4uFtojf-2v1aHKT_TGpnKpmkYcZj8KG39MgUNwZ22GZEyfZNQDqneZd3-tbCzTOx5GB5eVtrAG-9bX0ATd7_t59IIfRyDjUY7qV_pWgTJsa2lEkHRlw6Qr9_YdzbqAWqI5QmzAHqbmVebsNb-5pKl9GM12MObhwQ/s900/golf-pass.brightspotcdn.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="900" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vvMXX9RGSUsv8HwnzPo4uFtojf-2v1aHKT_TGpnKpmkYcZj8KG39MgUNwZ22GZEyfZNQDqneZd3-tbCzTOx5GB5eVtrAG-9bX0ATd7_t59IIfRyDjUY7qV_pWgTJsa2lEkHRlw6Qr9_YdzbqAWqI5QmzAHqbmVebsNb-5pKl9GM12MObhwQ/w281-h158/golf-pass.brightspotcdn.jpg" width="281" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>The
sixth hole at Western Gailes and the 12th at Tobacco Road</span></div><p> Is any sport more mind game than golf? The game is 99% mental – and the other 1% is mental too,
somebody once said.</p><p></p><p>I was so happy at Western Gailes that I started to hit the
ball with more authority, all the morbid melancholy swept away by the bright sea
breeze. Over a Guiness in the clubhouse, I struck up a conversation with a fellow American, Randy “Tank”
Tantlinger, and his friend Jeff, a retired firefighter. A former boxer, Tank looks the part with a delightful outsized personality to match. He hosts a Pittsburgh
Steelers radio talk show, and is a golf impresario with an entertaining youtube series called <a href="http://www.golfinaround.org/">"Golfin' Around"</a> and the CEO of a company called Victory Sports and Entertainment. <br /></p><p>The Scots adored Tank, a one man traveling revue with a joke and big tip for everyone. We had dinner and few drinks together at the
nearby Dundonald Links, a lovely newer track with its own golf cabins. The kind
Paul, a staffer there, drove me back to the train station afterwards – at no
charge, in characteristic Scottish hospitality. </p><p></p><p>Before heading home, I made a
trip down to Prestwick, the birthplace of the Open Championship with a 19th
century Old Tom Morris pedigree. It’s snow globe of a classic Scottish course,
sealed in by the Prestwick airport, train tracks, a dune walking trail and its
parking lot and club house. </p><p>You see why Prestwick
is no longer in the Open rotation despite its pedigree. There's no room for the
crowds or the necessary lengthening for big-hitting 21st century pros. </p><p></p><p>I was little
put-off by the Downtown Abbey snobbism of the club. When I planted my tee on the
first tee, the starter interrupted me. </p><p>“I’m sorry, Sir,” he said, “But those are
the Members Tees.” </p><p>If Prestwick wants to
charge visitors $300 a round (plus the unspeakably overpriced Peter Millar
souvenir gear in the pro shop), it might consider losing the Upstairs Downstairss
pretensions. </p><p>The first hole is crazy interesting, short and bordered by stone
wall like a miniature road hole.</p><p>Flustered at being relegated to the Regular tees, I
yanked a terrible drive into the left gorse like a sorry novice. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiysHcxTVSOyyXzPy3TD5R6koUYSmRnwlLAD0j4jGBicG315woUr_m87SkNwak-FX-C7stMF4Hi__OfVxhLVNuF9BscMLXC0Wf9iLzuK7iOCWSkGL5ssCBLMQakIBIFVx3ApYl9BbQ75xxbmZAp8Uh3Ur0HJtHJ2UCxUjX-VRB6JhnZK87Tpqw/s3233/IMG_1024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2666" data-original-width="3233" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiysHcxTVSOyyXzPy3TD5R6koUYSmRnwlLAD0j4jGBicG315woUr_m87SkNwak-FX-C7stMF4Hi__OfVxhLVNuF9BscMLXC0Wf9iLzuK7iOCWSkGL5ssCBLMQakIBIFVx3ApYl9BbQ75xxbmZAp8Uh3Ur0HJtHJ2UCxUjX-VRB6JhnZK87Tpqw/s320/IMG_1024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> The first hole at Prestwick, 2023<br /></span><p></p><p>It was still a treat to play Prestwick, and the staff generally
friendly as elsewhere. Strangely for an old course, it has almost a miniature
golf feel – short, blind shots, crazy undulations. I wouldn’t rave over it as
some golf cognoscenti do, but it was lovely to be there no matter for the bad golf I played.</p><p>I’ve
long thought golf has dimensions of <a href="http://golfpolitics.blogspot.com/2014/10/golf-and-search-for-lost-time.html">a liminal space between life and death</a>.
Didn’t Bing Crosby die coming off the green at a course in Spain? And aren't golf courses filled with us older people? It's about time for me to transition from the stiff shafts of my
stronger youth to the regular ones of a golfer weaker by the year. Eventually, you can’t play at all anymore, just tune in to tournaments on tv. </p><p>My grandmother liked nothing better than to watch Tiger Woods
as she lay curled on her bed with dreadful osteoporosis.</p><p>I’m not quite there
yet. I’m heading next week to California – there to play one of my favorite
courses anyway, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-19-os-wildwest19-story.html">the Weed Golf Course</a>, that poor man’s Pebble Beach below Mt. Shasta. </p><p>Fairways and
greens.
</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-87203410189148433972023-04-15T07:10:00.000-07:002023-04-15T07:10:05.929-07:00<p><b>THE SPORTSWASHING EXPRESS <br /></b></p><p></p><p><br />Orignally published in the Sun-Sentinel, October 4, 2022 </p><p><img height="184" src="https://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LIV-12.jpg" width="272" /></p><p> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Charles Schwartzel, Branden Grace and Hennie Du Plessis lift their trophies at the inaugural LIV event</span>.</p><p>Between the new Saudi-funded LIV golf tour and the upcoming soccer World Cup in Qatar, sportswashing is having itself a global moment. </p><p>Repressive regimes have long staged big sports events to launder their images. Adolf Hitler helped invent sportswashing, making the 1936 Berlin Olympics an advertisementfor Nazism’s supposed virtues. The stadiums sparkled, and the “No Jews” signs were temporarily removed. Many visitors left impressed by the Fuhrer’s Germany. </p><p>Dictators ever since have recognized the payoff of sports sponsorship — whether Mobutu Sese Seko staging the 1974 “Rumble in Jungle” or Vladimir Putin hosting the 2018 World Cup. </p><p>It would be nice to imagine that sportswashing no longer works in these ostensibly more enlightened times. Human rights organizations and concerned groups routinely express outrage at the latest announcement that some unsavory government will host the next Olympics, World Cup or other marquee event.</p><p>But the news cycle careens forward, the fuss dying down — and the Putins, the Mohammed bin Salmans, and the Xi Jinpings get to put on their shows. Who was it who said that, in the social media age, goldfish have a longer attention span than humans?</p><p>Consider the LIV Golf Series. At the end of this month, the new league will hold its season-ending tournament at the Trump Doral National course here in Florida — and former president Donald Trump will be there to greet the pros. Financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, LIV uses fat oil paychecks to entice players from the PGA tour to jump ship.</p><p> Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is overseeing this spending spree that also includes Formula One races and purchasing the Newcastle United soccer team.Between the macabre murder of human rights activist and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, bombing civilians in Yemen, and beheading dissidents, the crown prince needs all the image laundering he can buy. </p><p>And bin Salman can buy plenty. The Public Investment Fund? A mere $620 billion dollars or so. </p><p>At first, outrage about the LIV Golf Series was widespread. Weren’t golfers taking blood money? In an unguarded moment, Phil Mickelson, the best-known defector, admitted the Saudi sponsors were “scary motherf-----s.” It seemed as if the bad publicity might bring the LIV Golf Series down. </p><p>Instead, LIV seems to be riding out the storm. </p><p>As its supporters note, the rival PGA Tour doesn’t exactly have a clean moral sheet —holding an annual tournament in China, which has sent more than a million Uyghurs to reeducation camps, among other tyrannical practices.</p><p>And, the LIV backers say, many Americans fill up with Saudi gas. Why should golfers be criticized for taking Saudi money? </p><p>Somehow the essential creepiness of cashing checks from a murderous dictator has mostly dropped from the picture. More top players have joined LIV in recent weeks. </p><p>The upcoming World Cup has followed the same pattern. Early in the stadium building,Qatar faced bad publicity for mistreating migrant workers. Erling Haaland, the young soccer sensation, led a protest of his Norwegian teammates against forced labor and dangerous work conditions. </p><p>But once again, the outrage had a short half-life. No other national team has threatened to boycott the World Cup, although some players want to wear rainbow armbands in LGBTQ+ solidarity. Haaland and Norway have no leverage — they didn’t make the final round. One suspects that the great global carnival of the World Cup will go on with little unseemly protest [Note: and indeed it did, ]</p><p>It’s not that hosting big events necessarily changes opinions. Not many people regard China’s Xi Jinping as a great democrat, despite him presiding over two glitzy Olympics. </p><p>But sports sponsorship does afford shady governments needed legitimacy. The LIV GolfSeries and its other sporting ventures have helped the Saudis to regain a place in the international community after the publicity catastrophe of the Khashoggi murder. </p><p>Even President Joe Biden has now jetted to Riyadh to bump fists to Prince bin Salman. </p><p>It’s a sportswashing world after all.<br /><br /></p>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-69249462041005175672019-06-10T07:08:00.004-07:002019-06-10T17:10:48.072-07:00The Shame of Hank Haney<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I took much pleasure in watching two of my former students compete in the U.S. Women’s Open last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gina Kim took my big
introductory anthropology class here at Duke University this past spring, and Yu Liu did a few years ago, and both women each once kindly played nine
holes with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being out on the course with world-class players was a great treat, although the two young stars from Duke's perennially elite team may not have anticipated how much time they would spend searching for my lost
balls in the trees. </div>
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I thought about Gina and Yu when I heard about the comments
of Tiger Woods’s former coach, Hank Haney, just before the U.S. Open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his regular appearance on the SiriusXM PGA
Tour radio channel, Haney was asked about the tournament:</div>
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Host: “This week is the 74th U.S.
Women’s Open, Hank.”</div>
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Haney: “Oh it is? I’m gonna predict
a Korean.”</div>
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Host, laughing: “OK, that’s a
pretty safe bet.”</div>
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Haney: “I couldn’t name you six
players on the LPGA Tour. Maybe I could. Well … I’d go with Lee. If I didn’t
have to name a first name, I’d get a bunch of them right.”</div>
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Host: “We’ve got six Lees.”</div>
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Haney: “Honestly, Michelle Wie is
hurt. I don’t know that many. Where are they playing, by the way?”</div>
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In this “gotcha” society, it came as little surprise that
USA Today and other media immediately reported Haney’s “racist and
sexist comments.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure whether
his would-be funny commentary rose exactly to that level, but it was depressingly
unfunny in more ways than one. A
supposed golf expert unaware that the U.S. Women’s Open was
being played that weekend? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or having no idea
where the tournament would be held?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
couldn't name even six LPGA players?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is exactly the kind of condescending trivialization of women’s sports that female
athletes have been battling for decades.</div>
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It’s worth remembering golf’s unpleasant history of
discrimination against women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were
not admitted as members at many country clubs for decades, including
Augusta National until 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The LPGA was the first women's professional sports
league in the world, but it still struggles for sponsors and recognition. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The consensus best course in America, Pine Valley,
remains men-only even now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For that
matter, there’s still some baked-in sexism in golf culture, the leering at the
cart girl and the grill room jokes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s demoralizing that a golf influencer like
Haney would make a know-nothing bro culture joke of his lack of knowledge about the women’s game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And then there’s the matter of race, ethnicity, and the
habits of stereotyping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know about
golf’s many decades of exclusion and discrimination against African-Americans,
including the so-called “Caucasians-only” clause on the PGA tour until 1961. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The old-fashioned racist tropes fixed Asians
as swarming Yellow Peril hordes, and, more recently, the stereotypes have been
updated to a picture of high-achieving yet robotic, sexless, and uninteresting
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Haney professes not to know
the names of more than few players on tour (and to joke about so many named
Lee), he propagates exactly this idea of Asians as a generic mass impossible to
distinguish between.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The irony is that
the men’s tour is no hotbed of diversity and individualism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s dominated by whites from affluent
backgrounds with the same cookie-cutter swings and bland personalities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By any measure, the LPGA is the more diverse
of the two tours with more countries represented in the top 100 than the American-heavy
PGA tour. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The legendary Duke University women’s golf
coach, Dan Brooks, has led his team to seven national championships precisely
by recruiting internationally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
squads are a United Nations of women’s golf with recent standouts from Italy,
Israel, France, Ireland, and Thailand.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gina Kim</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yu Liu</td></tr>
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Let me return to Gina Kim and Yu Liu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As their backgrounds underline, the whole
idea of “Asian” golfers is a lazy shorthand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gina is of Korean descent and Yu is Chinese, and, in fact, there are top
female players from an array vastly different Asian countries – South Korea,
Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and China. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
very term “Korean” is complex, since it includes women born and raised in
countries including New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like LPGA star Michelle Wie (who went on
social media to call Haney to account), Gina Kim has Korean parents, but is
American, having grown up here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
parents are both professors of Spanish at Duke’s great rival, UNC, making her
the rare professional golfer with academics for parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yu is among the pioneering female Chinese
golfers in a country where Mao banned golf for decades (and instead promoted
the more ostensibly democratic sport of table tennis.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their stories deserve far better than the
know-nothing prejudice about there being “too many Asians” still visible in
perceptions of the women’s golf today. </div>
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I was glad to see Tiger Woods, who often shies from social
controversy, weigh on the Haney controversy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When SiruxXM announced it was suspending Haney for his comments, Woods tweeted
that his former coach had “gotten what he deserved.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Woods is part-Asian himself with a Thai
mother, after all, not to mention with little love lost for Haney for cashing
in on their years together with an unflattering tell-all book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After at first apologizing, Haney has pulled
a Trump – doubling down on his original stupid comments with no
contrition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The victory of a South
Korean women showed he had been right all along, Haney claimed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I knew a Lee would win,” he tweeted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point had never been who would win, but
rather Haney’s expressed disinterest in the women’s game and generic lumping
together of Asian players as “a bunch of Lees.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just doesn’t get it.</div>
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This didn’t stop Gina Kim and Yu Liu from having fine
tournaments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gina’s opening day 66 tied the U.S Women’s Open record for low round by an amateur, and she finished 12<sup>th</sup>. Yu placed fifth after tying
for the lead at one point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember
suggesting to Yu that she finish her Duke degree before going pro, but she left
after her first year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s clear enough
that she had reason for that decision given she’s almost earned a million
dollars on tour while I still make my modest professor’s salary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It’s easy to forget that women were almost completely barred
from playing sports at all little more than a century ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “fair sex” was too delicate to sweat went
the nostrums of Victorian porcelain doll feminity; their uteruses might even
fall out if they exerted themselves too hard. We are happily far beyond those days even if
there remains a long way to go.<br />
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I hit an especially good drive for me when I
played my nine with Gina and a couple of members of the men’s golf
team, about 260 yards down the middle. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>“Good shot,” Gina said, before stepping up to launch her drive far past mine into
the blue sky. </div>
Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-62581579432314004912019-04-15T10:01:00.002-07:002019-04-15T10:03:56.495-07:00The Transubstantiation of Tiger Woods<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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on and off the course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most pundits had
written off the great champion after an ugly divorce, four back surgeries, and,
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greatest player with an astonishing knack for drama and the clutch shot. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, after self-destructive serial cheating
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media frenzy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He resurrected his career
with a public apology and double fusion back operation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, with his Masters win, Woods has been
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who has learned how hard life can be could identify with his struggle and take
pleasure in his victory. There is always new drama in the Woods story, and
perhaps he will now go on to reach his childhood goal of overtaking Jack
Nicklaus for the most major tournament titles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-57817626402933024902014-10-03T12:44:00.006-07:002014-10-11T07:51:59.433-07:00GOLF AND THE SEARCH FOR LOST TIME<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Every golfer should read Marcel Proust.</div>
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A golf course, after all, can function like that famous
madeleine from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In Search of Lost Time</i>,
activating a memory rush.</div>
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In this, as much else, golf is very different from sports like
basketball or soccer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their breath-sucking
demands hardly allow for indulging in reminiscence during the game itself, a good fit for the young with not much yet
to recall anyway. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By contrast, we aging golfers have plenty of
time to ponder life’s meaning as we amble between shots, especially if
playing alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We often find that the course's smells, sounds, and sights transport us back, as
the Beatles song has it, to people and things that went before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It was that way for me yesterday at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=34984860#editor/target=post;postID=8580672179343021840;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=7;src=postname" target="_blank">Hillandale Golf Club</a>,
our stalwart Durham public track.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fall
is arriving here in the Carolinas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
hint of chill and the first gold and reddening leaves along the fairways took
me back almost forty years to my freshman year at Haverford College.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haverford is close by the fabled Merion Golf
Club on Philadelphia’s Main Line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Merion was our golf team’s home course, though the more plebeian West Course
and not the storied East.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I caddied that year, 1979, at East Merion to earn some
money, though the double bags chafed at the bad acne on my eighteen-year old
back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d never really seen autumn
colors except in pictures, having grown up in the California Bay Area’s evergreen
Mediterranean spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even then, the
leaves struck me as very lovely, and yet also deathly, a last show of color
before the darkness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The leaf fall, I discovered, also makes it hard to find your ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Autumn is high golf ball losing season in Pennsylvania and here in
North Carolina.</div>
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Now, decades later, I see <a href="http://golfpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/07/tom-watson-and-sorrow-of-aging-it-would.html" target="_blank">death’s shadow</a> often on the golf
course. There are so many older players
out there, those edging towards life’s end. We
aging golfers find special satisfaction in golf because it allows us one last
chance to play, that most primordial human pleasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And some of us even die on the golf course
as Bing Crosby did of a heart attack while walking off the 18<sup>th</sup> green
on Spain’s Costa del Sol.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cheery
golf shirt colors, the ritualized grill room bonhomie, and even the
aggressively green grass can all feel like a last stand against the
grave’s grey finality, at least if you are feeling in a morbid mood as I
sometimes do.</div>
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After five back surgeries, I use a push cart now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know the Sphinx’s riddle, but it has a
golf variant. What walks on two legs in the morning, three in the afternoon,
and four in the evening?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the golfer. We pass from the youthful
carrying of our own bags to pushing clubs in a handcart to, finally, riding in
a golf cart when we can't walk the course any longer. Then, for the very old, even cart golf becomes
too much. That bad heart, the stroke or just plain frailty expels us from
golf’s green kingdom for good, watching on TV all that remains. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">We enter, our bodies and sometimes minds beginning to fail us, into what the anthrop</span>ologist Victor Turner
famously labeled the “liminal” state between life and death.</div>
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As I pushed along yesterday at Hillandale, it was to the
motion’s soft clicking of the Ping irons that belonged to my grandfather, Ray
Starn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re some forty years old, the
first generation of cast irons; they have the same grey metallic early space age
look as the model Apollo landing module in our local science museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ray pumped gas in the Great Depression and
eventually had his own prospering body shop in California’s Central
Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Into his seventies, he’d work
all morning under cars in his blue mechanic’s suit with the little oval “Ray”
name patch sewn into its breast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
he’d head out to the Del Rio Country Club, where he had become a member.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a great pleasure for a boy who’d
grown up poor in a Nebraska sod house to golf at his lush country club, the
American dream in living color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That Ray
was a lousy golfer never got in the way of his enjoying the game, a lesson for
all of us who gripe and complain our way around the course as if it were some
terrible burden to be playing instead of a lucky privilege.</div>
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I remember playing with Ray at Del Rio sometime in the late
1980s, around the end of the Reagan presidency (and Ray, a proud Republican,
loved “my boy Ronnie,” as he called him).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He’d been fighting prostate cancer for a few years by then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’m worried about this cancer thing,” he
said out of nowhere as we walked off the 18<sup>th</sup> green to our golf
cart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That night, he cried at our family
dinner, telling us how much he loved and would miss us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We never played golf again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I flew on a night flight up from Peru, where I was
working as an anthropologist, only in time to get to the hospital a few hours
just before Ray died.</div>
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It gives me much pleasure to play still with his
irons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strangely, perhaps the good family
karma, I hit them far better than I did the expensive, latest model Titleists I
tried out a couple of years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their soft rattling as I walked along
yesterday reminded me, I realized, of sound clips I’ve heard of the Khoisan
languages, spoken by nomadic tribal bands in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert and
famous among linguists for its distinctive clicking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That,
in turn, led me back into my life a decade ago, when I was absorbed in
researching <a href="http://www.orinstarn.com/?page_id=353" target="_blank">the story of Ishi</a>, the last survivor of another Stone Age tribe,
the Yahi of California’s northern mountains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like my grandfather, Ishi died in a California hospital bed, though in
San Francisco, where he’d been taken to live in a museum, and not the Central
Valley as Ray did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ping irons...my
grandfather...the clicking...the Khoisan...Ishi...the deep depression that
engulfed me as I struggled to finish a book about him...hospitals...the
anesthesiologist putting me to sleep for my last desperate back operation in Sweden... the lucky delight of being with my wife, children, parents, friends in my new life now... </div>
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It’s always disconcerting, of course, what jumbled,
sometimes involuntary sequences of associations our minds choose to make late in
a sleepless night, or alone on a golf course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I walked up the ninth fairway
at Hillandale, my reflections growing Grateful Dead metaphysical, I thought
about how connections are the essence of everything human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s language, and the way words really
only work when strung together, or, in the bigger picture, those social linkages that we anthropologists so love to study – family and
kinship; neighborhoods; religions; economies; countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our bodies themselves are but a connector set
of molecules; our minds, as the philosopher Gregory Bateson once put it, a “dance
of interacting parts,” one where clinking irons on a gentle North Carolina
autumn afternoon bring back the life and death of a California body shop owner
in the last century. </div>
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As I got up to my drive, I was two over par for the nine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s about always where I seem to be at
Hillandale, quite an easy course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Numbers are funny.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m still a good
golfer, and almost always break 80 at Hillandale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even when I was very close to scratch,
I’ve not once shot in the 60s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
surprises me a bit as I’ve played hundreds or rounds, and shot 70 a couple of
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, I never imagined either that I would
be as old as a number like 53.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A half
century on this strange planet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
still my hope, every time I tee off at Hillandale, that this will be the day I
break 70.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Golf is made up of such
hopes, normally dashed in the end.</div>
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Just before I’d driven over to Hillandale, I had an e-mail
from my mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She reminded me that
this day would have been my Grandmother Frances’s 99<sup>th</sup> birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frances had died just more than a year ago
in her house near San Jose, the last of my four grandparents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought about her, too, out on the
Hillandale fairways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She used to play
with my other grandfather, Warren, a moody and difficult man who had few
friends. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved Warren (and never
doubted he loved me back), and he taught me to play golf in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That meant putting up with my adolescent’s
bad temper and strange habits, like using dirty socks for clubhead covers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Warren <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wasn’t much fun to play with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like Ray, he was a lousy golfer, and yet could
never accept it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’d storm off the
green after missing a putt, sometimes off the course altogether.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His garage filled with strange mail
order clubs and swing aids that, then as now, never did much to
improve his game.</div>
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It was different with Frances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A big woman, she could smash it past Warren
with her blue ladies Powerbuilt drive when she got hold of one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’d been born in
the Czech Republic, and liked baking, gardening, fishing, her grandchildren and
life in general. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We played together
without Warren sometime, going over the hill to the quirky Delaveaga
Course by Santa Cruz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was always a
treat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of years ago, I showed
her my titanium TaylorMade <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">driver. </span>She,
at 96, could no longer play -- and
drivers were still wooden in her day -- and yet she grasped the club with the curious
pleasure she took in most new things.<br />
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We thought, despite periodic health crises, that
Frances would make it to 100. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
always loved food, and, still going quite strong, shared a crepe with my two
year old, her sixth great-grandchild, when we were out in California in late summer.</div>
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That was the last time I saw her as we had to return to North Carolina. She died a few months later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The doctors had no explanation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her body had simply decided it did not want
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We had chatted over the phone about a week before she died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our conversation turned, as it often did, to
golf; she liked to hear that I was still playing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our other favorite topic was fishing, and I told
her about a bass expedition I’d made to a local lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to yell into the phone since she’d lost
most of her hearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Is that right?,”
she’d say, having decided that was a good default when you couldn’t
make out what the other person had said.</div>
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I was thinking about that last conversation as I got to my
ball at the ninth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was 140 yards up a
slight hill, a nine iron for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I hit it well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
ball rose high into the pale blue sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every good shot is a little flying capsule of loveliness in its fleeting
seconds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a sliver of beauty, and, as happens when we know we’ve done a thing done right, the human frailties of
doubt and fear recede in the moment’s pleasing magic. </div>
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Then, as all things do, the ball plunked down to rest,
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Frances was never a very good putter.</div>
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Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-82311690897191847302014-07-11T08:09:00.000-07:002014-07-11T08:17:57.422-07:00Fernando, the Peruvian Neymar<br />
I'm in a desert shantytown in Peru with my two-year old son, Lucien. There's no golf course at all here in the sun-baked dusty city of Piura, which lies in the great Peruvian coastal desert -- an expanse of sand and rock almost as vast <b><span style="font-weight: normal;">the Sahara. It's among the world's driest places anywhere. The piece below isn't about golf, but another sport, soccer, or "football" as the rest of the world properly calls it:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ve never lived in a stranger place than Venice.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It was a great empire centuries ago, the master of the
Adriatic and a swath of Italy.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Now it’s
an open air museum.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Tourists from
Russia, Germany, China, Brazil, the Ukraine, and, of course, the United States tramp
through like an invading army.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Some
three million visitors a year come to see the Grand Canal and other iconic sites, and yet there are only
about </span><span style="font-size: large;">80,000 Venetians left.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Tourists outnumber natives b</span><span style="font-size: large;">y more than three
to one on most days. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> It’s hard
sometimes to find a shop that sells something besides carnival masks, plastic
model gondolas, and the latest Italian novelty souvenirs like joke kitchen
aprons with the penis of Michelangelo’s David.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As much as anything, Venice has always been a brand.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> No place on </span><span style="font-size: large;">the planet may be so stunningly
gorgeous as this emerald island city, and Venetians themselves have always
known that.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Those </span><span style="font-size: large;">extraordinary Venetian
Renaissance painters – the Bellini Brothers, </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHBBKFXtJOqdsD2xxbnU6EnfSeM9HV4aVAKIsTo5l4puXurV4UYXxELch2I0wK_fR-PRqfe2ekkYfua3SdaJPG2qnAx0AAXIpgHn3NaZu8BtjIGUHB0IJHSCeEAhX8TSZcJsJVw/s1600/images.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHBBKFXtJOqdsD2xxbnU6EnfSeM9HV4aVAKIsTo5l4puXurV4UYXxELch2I0wK_fR-PRqfe2ekkYfua3SdaJPG2qnAx0AAXIpgHn3NaZu8BtjIGUHB0IJHSCeEAhX8TSZcJsJVw/s1600/images.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Carpaccio, Paolo Veronese –
already mythologized their city’s watery enchantment five centuries ago.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> So, later, did the </span><span style="font-size: large;">l</span><span style="font-size: large;">ikes of Canaletto
and Guardi, whose oils of the Grand Canal and t</span><span style="font-size: large;">he Rialto </span><span style="font-size: large;">godfathered the modern
tourist postcard.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Then as now, a</span><span style="font-size: large;">
gondola ride, a stroll through St. Mark’s Square, or an excursion to watch the
glassmakers of Murano form the Venetian copyright.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">This carousel
of images conjures enough beauty and romance to draw more visitors than ever
from around the globe.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> As the global middle class has expanded,
tourism has become the world’s largest industry, and this has only multiplied
the numbers coming to Venice.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> There were
no Russian, Chinese, or Brazilian tour groups here several decades ago.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But why do so many of us want to travel?</span><span style="font-size: large;"> As sociologists John Urry and Jonas Larsen
observe in their fine <i>The Tourist Gaze 3.</i>0, </span><span style="font-size: large;">vacationing has become “a defining characteristic of being modern.”</span><span style="font-size: large;"> We’re drawn, of course, by the promise of
escaping the grey grind of home and work, and the lure of some legendary faraway
locale.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> Every trip, in fact, has its own moral
imperatives – a “must see” list.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Thus, in Venice, a gondola ride remains
obligatory for the more mainstream tourist, no less than climbing the Eiffel
Tower in Paris or visiting the Vatican in Rome.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Those more would-be discerning visitors – of the kind who style themselves as “travelers” as against the run-of-the
mill tourist -- have their own moral economy.</span><span style="font-size: large;">
Here the search for the local, the authentic, and the less touristed takes precedence no matter that these have all become Lonely Planet clichés in themselves.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Urry and Larsen also coin the label of “post-tourists”</span><span style="font-size: large;"> for those who disavow any interest in the
authentic in favor of a perverse anthropological delight in the kitsch,
hybridization, and unexpected juxtapositions of a world where there really is
no place off the beaten track anymore.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">And, by now, the taxonomy of tourism also includes its
more particular niches – the medical tourist to India for heart surgery; the
astronomy tourist to Namibia for a total solar eclipse;</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the wine tourist to Croatia or the latest viticulture hotspot; and, yes, the golf tourist chasing some new great golf
experience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’m little more than extended-stay tourist myself in Venice,
here just for the fall.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> But I am
teaching two courses at Venice International University, and the crowds can
sometimes make it hard.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> When running
late, I always seem to find the alley blocked by some ambling, camera-laden
scrum of a German tour group.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> The area
between St. Mark’s Square, the Academia Bridge, and the Rialto forms a tourist
Bermuda triangle. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> Many, if not most,
Venetians live off the tourist trade; but many nonetheless speak
nostalgically about less crowded times.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> If
you wander down the right back alley, you can still find the surviving remnants
of a functioning Italian city -- a playground, a tailor, a basketball court, an
upholsterer, a yoga class, a pet shop, a funeral parlor.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">But everything costs twice what it does on the
mainland, where the down economy already makes things difficult for ordinary
people. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> And family life is no easy
business in a cramped Renaissance city however picturesque. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> No wonder so many Venetians, even those who
still commute across the lagoon into the city, have moved to Marghera, Mestre,
and other terra firma towns.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And, as almost anywhere on this 21<sup>st</sup> century
golfing planet, you can find golf in Venice, or at least the greater
Venetian lagoon.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> At the very tip of
the barrier island of Lido lies the <a href="http://www.circologolfvenezia.it/" target="_blank">Circolo Golf di Venezia</a>.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> The course is a pleasant enough track built
in the 1920s, </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8PqfkXvGDOhxhFaC45pvOXywbqhyphenhyphenuiNbYVgItgQZWLgvIi-yP94LsK18j_Fd-z0GgqJLtnWpMlnUSrvb1KII4SwU6q_C__C3gkoTI1s54Z0MHhznScKAnWKTpK3tlpaWNI-GPXA/s1600/012.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8PqfkXvGDOhxhFaC45pvOXywbqhyphenhyphenuiNbYVgItgQZWLgvIi-yP94LsK18j_Fd-z0GgqJLtnWpMlnUSrvb1KII4SwU6q_C__C3gkoTI1s54Z0MHhznScKAnWKTpK3tlpaWNI-GPXA/s200/012.JPG" width="150" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">though nothing extraordinary. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> It doesn’t say much for Italian golf if the
Circolo is really among the top ten in the country as one ranking has it.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> But it’s nonetheless always interesting to
see the local twists to the game abroad, and what they reveal about that
particular society and culture.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> To
paraphrase the great French sociologist Roger Caillois, how we play always discloses
much about who we are. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Italians, as we know, love to eat well, and that’s certainly
evident at the Venice course.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> You can
sit on the club terrace and have a delicious cold seafood salad washed down
with the Veneto’s good white wine.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> It’s
a far cry from the proverbial greasy hotdog, Powerade, and bag of potato chips at
the American golf course grill.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Circolo also reflects the more parsimonious, greener
habits of Italian consumers. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> In Italy, as in the rest of Europe, wastebaskets,
cars, toilets, cars, and even paper towels are much smaller than those to which
we Americans are accustomed; people use things to the end instead of running
out to buy a new one as in our throwaway consumer culture.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> At many American courses, especially upscale
ones, you can find all manner of balls if you poke around in the woods and
creeks, including more than a few virtually new ones.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Not in Italy. I wasn’t sure if I had enough balls to
finish the round on the watery Circolo course, and yet, though I scoured the
bushes, I failed to turn up so much as an old Top-Flite.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> And if American golfers, at least those who
can afford it, feel obligated to have the newest model clubs in their bag,
there’s no such imperative in Italy.</span><span style="font-size: large;">
The bag storage shed for club members was a museum of early generation
titanium clubs.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> A 1990s Callaway Big
Bertha, so big and shiny in its day, looks now like a undersized early
industrial artifact of another era, like an old Olivetti manual typewriter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And consider the greeenskeeping. Italian landscaping, like the food, runs to a calculated yet unforced simplicity.The Italian gardener does not share the American lawn nazi’s horror at the stray weed. The Circolo has the archetypal Italian mix of cypress and pine, and, though maintained well enough, it’s a bit shaggy, no effort made to keep every blade of grass in place as at a high-end </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55E8pesMEFzwRsuuZ6t4nLQthYq7EgfArv_AXgNIzSpkJfHdHCMKicH5PKHGZmVnsbUewUOiAtHmQVV59DHHWY74ZfSAnMLIUyQSyLYo1iHX7GrdgJfB4Eh5_PDOsqOe6m0SwmA/s1600/Well..JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55E8pesMEFzwRsuuZ6t4nLQthYq7EgfArv_AXgNIzSpkJfHdHCMKicH5PKHGZmVnsbUewUOiAtHmQVV59DHHWY74ZfSAnMLIUyQSyLYo1iHX7GrdgJfB4Eh5_PDOsqOe6m0SwmA/s200/Well..JPG" width="200" /></a></span><span style="font-size: large;">American club. A Renaissance fountain lies just next to the 18<sup>th</sup> green in a reminder of just how much Italy remains a land of ancient and jumbled chronologies where Etruscan burial grounds, Roman ruins,
Medieveal churches, Mussolini-era train stations, and new McDonald’s jostle and crowd up against one another. The fountain at the Circolo, it should be noted, plays as an immovable obstruction with no relief if your ball ends up next to or behind it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back across the lagoon in Venice, the grand old city can feel
besieged by its millions of visitors.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> It sometimes seems as if Italy’s precious Renaissance
marvels -- Giotto's Arena Chapel, Leonardo’s Last Supper, the Botticelli Birth of
Venus</span><span style="font-size: large;"> -- sag wearily under the weight of
so many staring visitors, so much written about them, so many photographs, so
many centuries passed.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> But laments
about an overtouristed Venice are hardly new.</span><span style="font-size: large;">
Henry James, back in 1909, already noted that some travellers found the
place “odious” because they had “too many competitors there” and were forced to
share the city “with a herd of fellow gazers.”</span><span style="font-size: large;">
But the great novelist loved Venice anyway as a place of “a thousand
occasional graces.”</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> He was taken, among other things, by the
light.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> It was, he wrote, “a mighty
magician and, with all respect to Titian, Veronese and Tintoret, the greatest
artist of them all. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Here sea and sky
seem to meet half-way, to blend their tones into a soft iridescence, a lustrous
compound of wave and cloud and a hundred nameless local reflections, and then
to fling the clear tissue against every object of vision.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel much the same way.</span><span style="font-size: large;">
Once I navigate the alleyways out to San Zaccaria, I climb aboard the
Number 20 vaporetto, these boats being Venice’s only form of public transportation.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> It heads out to </span><span style="font-size: large;">the university on the island
of San Servolo with a view opening up back to the Doge’s Palace, St. Mark's, and
the grey-blue water of the lagoon.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> It’s a view straight off the postcard rack and
yet no less stunning for that fact.</span></div>
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“Golf can be taught,” that great American comedian and
archetypal duffer Leslie Nielsen (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Airplane</i>,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Naked Gun</i>) once quipped, “It just
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That hasn’t kept golf instruction from becoming a
multibillion dollar business. The likes
of Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler – self-taught pros with funky homespun swings
– have become rare exceptions. Every
other pro seems to have been coached from the cradle. Their grooved swings are as bland as a
vanilla milkshake at the clubhouse grill. The most famous golf teachers have become
celebrities in their own right. David
Ledbetter and others command profitable empires of videos, books, academies,
and <i>Golf Channel</i> appearances.
Even we amateurs no longer “play” golf.
We’re supposed to “work” on our games with the right drills,
instructional apps, and guidance from of our teaching pro with his taped video
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It remains golf’s greatest illusion to think we can
revolutionize our game with just a few small adjustments. We’re convinced, as the wry golf writer
Herbert Warren Wind already observed a half century ago, that by modifying the way
“we bend our left knee” or “position our right thumb” that “even-par scores will
be no trouble at all.” That eternal hope
of getting it right, if only for a day, is part of the game’s allure. Golfers are like Coyote. We’re always ready to chase after
the Roadrunner again no matter that we know that our game will likely blow up
somewhere along the way before we can grab that juicy low score.</div>
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No less a golfing god than Tiger Woods turns out to share
the hacker’s illusion about the possibility of perfection. He’s now reinventing his game for the third
time, with a third instructor. His swing
has become golf’s most famous science experiment. One wonders, of course, whether Tiger might
play better if he stopped worrying so
much about his downswing plane angle, right shoulder tilt, and other arcana,
and instead just hit the ball. But Tiger,
so unique in other ways, has the mentality of Joe Duffer in hoping that his
latest swing makeover will change everything.
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We get an insider’s look at Tiger’s struggles in Hank
Haney’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Big Miss</i>. Thanks in no small part to Jaime Diaz’s fine
ghostwriting, the book is a great read, and high on the bestseller lists. Haney himself comes across as a man of many
contradictions. He affects an
aw-shucks, Mr. Nice Guy persona, and yet clearly loved the limelight of being Tiger’s
teacher (and has busily milked it with his dreadful “The Haney Project” on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Golf Channel </i>and now this book). He claims not to be defensive about
comparisons with his predecessor, Butch Harmon, but includes a long appendix
supposedly showing that Tiger did just as well under his tutelage. And Haney professes admiration for Tiger,
while depicting his former employer as cold, selfish, and arrogant -- and a
cheapskate to boot. With friends like Haney, as they say, Tiger doesn’t
need enemies; he has his share of those already between his jilted caddies and
mistresses.</div>
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My favorite moment is the tale of the popsicles According to Haney, when he’d stay with Tiger,
they’d watch tv in the evenings. Tiger
would sometimes fetch a popsicle from the freezer during commercial breaks. Not once, Haney reports, did the golfing god
ever offer to bring one for his houseguest.
Haney admits it may sound petty to make much of this, and, in fact, it
does a bit. But it’s just another example of what Haney judges
to be Tiger’s rudely imperious self-centeredness, not to mention his banal alpha
male obsession with hardcore military training and always having the upper
hand. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Big Miss</i> is the doorman’s revenge, Haney’s payback for the poor
way he felt Tiger treated him while Haney collects some hefty book royalties in
the bargain. It’s not a flattering
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Golfwise, Haney recounts Tiger constantly mulling over swing
mechanics. When his teacher made
suggestions, he’d accept some, dismiss others.
Clearly, Tiger, like the rest of us, enjoys fiddling with
his swing, and the pleasure that comes with the prospect of fixing something
broken and imagining that our best still lies ahead. And yet, of course, the former Zeus of the
golf world must also hate it that his powers have diminished at least for now;
he seems to hold himself to a standard of perfection that may now be more
hindrance than asset in his quest to regain his divine form. It was Tiger’s pursuit of something yet
better that led to his split with Haney.
Now he has still another coach, Sean Foley, and one wonders how long
this one will last. Coaching Tiger is like
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I recall a story about Giotto, a genius of the paintbrush
and not the fairways. To pick a painter
for a large Vatican commission, the Pope sent messengers to Italy’s most famous Renaissance
artists for a sample of their best work.
Giotto, when the emissary arrived to his Florence studio, pulled out a sheet of paper, drew a perfect circle on it, and then handed it to the man. Is this all, the puzzled courier asked? Take it to your master, replied Giotto, and he’ll
understand. And the Pope, indeed amazed
that Giotto had drawn such a circle by his eye alone, awarded him the
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actually impossible to draw a circle that’s truly faultless down to the very last
millimeter. He sent his off to the Pope
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717931632685543666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjL7DOCmtoGfDwMWkEfP_EU6w_fbwvZ2GCc1KSfVR7ZBW7tl11y17YKoaGK_yR0KoOBQgyfoAe3n59_NHmuvol8t_7sSOWfm4AWq-0rSi-f9JQTQqgKQD8WVQJBGhTRnAhIqdFfQ/s200/Starn_cover_front.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 136px;" /><span id="goog_991915596"></span><span id="goog_991915597"></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A bit of promotion: my new book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Passion-Tiger-Woods-Anthropologist/dp/0822352109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336528792&sr=8-1" target="_blank">The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal</a> </i>is now available in print and for Kindle and other e-readers.</span></span></div>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-41376694270634104572012-03-09T08:01:00.030-08:002012-03-17T17:23:09.759-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is Tiger Back?</span></span><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" ><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >I always loved the climax of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Odyssey</i>.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, returns at last after surviving the perils and temptations of his long journey back from Troy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It had taken him ten years to get back from the war; he finds that a host of boastful young pretenders have taken over his house, giving him up for dead as they drink, preen, and press their affections upon his wife, the steadfast Penelope.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >Sports superstars are our modern-day mythological heroes, the Odyseusses of this postmodern age.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>When injuries or other troubles put them out of action, we wonder whether they too will ever rule their sport again. What about Peyton Manning after his neck surgeries? Can Manny Ramirez still bash it out of the park? <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Evander Holyfield take to the ring for one last title bout?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The likes of ESPN, sports talk radio and the rest of the media machine that cultural critic Kevin Quirk labels “SportsGlutUSA” have made such speculation into a 24/7 business. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >There's been plenty of such chatter, of course, about Tiger over the last couple of years.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The double whammy of the great golfer’s personal woes and bad left knee led some pundits to insist that he would never again be a top player. Perhaps the most incautious of these observers, the <i style="">Golf Channel</i>'s Brandel Chamblee, seemed to take a strangely vehement pleasure<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> </i> in declaring that Tiger’s knee was irreparably damaged; his swing hopelessly flawed; and his game that of a has-been more suited to the Nationwide than the PGA tour. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The one-time king of golf, Chamblee insisted, was dead, the new Tiger a shadow of his former glorious self.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >But recall, then, the ending of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Odyssey</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The weary yet wily, resilient Odysseus returns to Ithaca at last, disguised as a beggar.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Finally, at the palace, he reveals himself to the stunned assembly by stringing his great old bow and sending an arrow through ten axe-heads. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He and his son Telemachus confront the arrogant, bullying suitors, slaughtering them all.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Odysseus takes command again of his island realm.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >Will Tiger follow this archetypal model by taking back his throne, or at the very least reclaiming some of his magic?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He’s played well since last fall, including his victory at the Chevron World Classic. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Yes, his putting is sometimes shaky; but the flat stick, of course, is a matter of confidence, and surely that may return, especially now that Tiger is able to play tournament golf regularly for the first time in so long. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We’ve certainly seen flashes of the old Tiger of late, most <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCGSTYYKlRk">notably at the 18th hole at the Honda Classic</a> - the brute power of the 325 yard drive; the verve of the 203 yard five iron over water; the staring down of his eagle putt with the ball diving into the cup as if he had willed it there.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>That hole recalled the thrilling drama of Tiger in his glory years.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >I shouldn’t overdo the Homeric parallels. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Tiger did not resist the charms of his Calypsos – Joslyn James, Rachel Uchitel, and the rest of his hook-up roster; and Elin Nordegren, understandably enough, refused to play the faithful Penelope waiting by her loom no matter what.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She demanded the divorce; one financial blog suggested that the Swedish krona ticked up against the U.S. dollar on the day the estranged couple signed their separation agreement, supposedly because of the many millions transferred from Tiger’s American account to Elin’s Stockholm bank. The gossip magazines have had Elin dating a handsome young Wall Street tycoon.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >As for Tiger, he doesn’t seem any less imperious in personality for his ordeals.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>His publicity people have doubtless suggested, as many critics have, that he try to be more fan-friendly, and thus he occasionally tweets and signs autographs for fans.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWGPzklvW1M">he turned his famous icy death stare recently on a reporter</a> who dared to ask an innocuous question about a passage from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Miss-Years-Coaching/dp/0307985989/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331309572&sr=8-1">his former instructor Hank Haney's new book done with the veteran golf journalist Jaime Diaz</a> (and, personally, I would read anything the wise and humane Diaz writes).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>At the Honda, Tiger signed some autographs, and yet did it with such unsmiling gracelessness that it looked as if he’d rather be having a wisdom tooth yanked with no anesthetic.<br /><br />But we don’t expect much human touch from Tiger. He has given us the brilliance of his game. That’s more than enough. “Dogs,” Odysseus tells the terrified pretenders <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>as he throws off his rags to reveals his fearsome majesty “did you think that I should not come back from Troy?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You have feared neither God nor man and now you shall die.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Golf, like life itself, seldom provides simple endings; Tiger will surely have his share of false starts, disappointments and defeats in the coming year.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> His apparent Achilles injury at Doral this past weekend was not an auspicious sign. Even so, </span>I suspect that sooner or later Tiger will have that Ithacan moment where, if only for a tournament, he once again returns to golf’s heights in a flash of power and brilliance.<br /><br />It’s only a few weeks now until Augusta.<br /><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" ><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" > </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Passion-Tiger-Woods-Anthropologist/dp/0822352109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331309909&sr=8-1"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjL7DOCmtoGfDwMWkEfP_EU6w_fbwvZ2GCc1KSfVR7ZBW7tl11y17YKoaGK_yR0KoOBQgyfoAe3n59_NHmuvol8t_7sSOWfm4AWq-0rSi-f9JQTQqgKQD8WVQJBGhTRnAhIqdFfQ/s200/Starn_cover_front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717931632685543666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >A bit of promotion: my new book <i style="">The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal </i>is now available in print and for Kindle and other e-readers.<br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" ><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></span></p>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-334158860557795992012-01-29T17:44:00.000-08:002012-02-11T18:43:42.687-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">GOLF LOVE/GOLF HATE<br /><br /></span><span>There are plenty of golf nuts, and, in fact, the Golf Nut Society of America awards a prize each year to the top golf nut of the year. Michael Jordan once won it for skipping the ceremony where he was to receive the MVP award in order instead to play a round with his friends. But, as we golfers know, there are plenty of people who find golf boring or worse. Here's my personal list of<a href="https://today.duke.edu/2012/01/starngolf"> top five reasons why people hate golf</a> from a recent interview with the Duke News Service.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-48106606390996993452011-11-02T05:46:00.000-07:002012-01-29T18:33:41.768-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >NOW AVAILABLE FROM DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS:</span><br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/31464531?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Video by<a href="http://www.yellowchairreality.com/"> Ivan Weiss</a> (c)<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/Meet_Orin_Starn.MP3/view?searchterm=Meet%20Orin%20Starn">Listen</a> to interview about<span style="font-style: italic;"> The Passion of Tiger Woods,</span> golf, and anthropology with WUNC's Frank Stasio on <span style="font-style: italic;">The State of Things<br /><br /></span><span><a href="http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/30855/a-cultural-anthropologist-on-t">Watch</a> webcast about the book from the Duke "Office Hours" program</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><span><a href="http://today.duke.edu/2012/01/starntiger">Read</a> interview about Tiger Woods and the challenges of cyberethnography </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-85806721793430218402011-10-27T17:08:00.000-07:002011-11-08T07:31:56.347-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwDIifqaDrRGheQOC_gBzN8Nl35vVraIShfLwODHsOhNNrGVsts-mk_vvrejHiHgR3HcJ25uVMW92UpigRDVih00n6PM0BgCtmwlp11QfwEr2maGr0ikTRbrlkYqq-PWOU-WfHAA/s1600/HillandaleCorrected.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwDIifqaDrRGheQOC_gBzN8Nl35vVraIShfLwODHsOhNNrGVsts-mk_vvrejHiHgR3HcJ25uVMW92UpigRDVih00n6PM0BgCtmwlp11QfwEr2maGr0ikTRbrlkYqq-PWOU-WfHAA/s200/HillandaleCorrected.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669492295826563154" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In Praise of Hillandale<br /><br /></span>It was announced last </span><span style="font-size:180%;">month that the Hillandale Golf Course might soon be closing.<br /><br />Losing the course would be a sad thing for my adopted hometown of Durham, North Carolina. In a world of gated trophy courses and pricey green fees, Hillandale belongs instead to golf's more democratic tradition. It's an unpretentious public track with very modest fees and a </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKAjFBRQpqhMqG8eAJDXqA4yOKtcO945YAc39jv_8hYeNEKp9yZ5PaRBKFHaKeQXyua4P9JDmP67NRGzpVOir0k1p0Cgt706Spwgm0MTe-8tcooYWSZ-1fuAXkmyF_c4bnRGpu5w/s1600/CorrectedHillandale.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKAjFBRQpqhMqG8eAJDXqA4yOKtcO945YAc39jv_8hYeNEKp9yZ5PaRBKFHaKeQXyua4P9JDmP67NRGzpVOir0k1p0Cgt706Spwgm0MTe-8tcooYWSZ-1fuAXkmyF_c4bnRGpu5w/s200/CorrectedHillandale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670159529625675490" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;">welcoming atmosphere. You'll find all kinds of people out at the course with its busy driving range and practice putting green.</span><span style="font-size:180%;"> Hillandalers include plumbers and police officers, school teachers, traveling salesmen, high-schoolers and hipsters, and Duke students and residents from the nearby Duke Medical Center.<br /><br />Hillandale was whites-only back in the Jim Crow era. Now, in the best New South spirit, it </span><span style="font-size:180%;">draws a mixed crowd. The course has become an unofficial center for area black golfers; it's the home track for the North Carolina Central University golf team and a corps of retired African-American regulars.</span><span style="font-size:180%;"> Hillandale is also among the only area courses with </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSYS5GqMYVGw7uamy_hJ7RDwxz7_pubw7q22GUJemXBMa0lKjEzDkyp6L9kaAqUH96GDtyKTZGkJCu1LJlX9bC_1RT7dSqgsQLGbyndUx7Fmw81-VBxT93uZD3j66msyT2FuBLoA/s1600/Hillandale+018.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSYS5GqMYVGw7uamy_hJ7RDwxz7_pubw7q22GUJemXBMa0lKjEzDkyp6L9kaAqUH96GDtyKTZGkJCu1LJlX9bC_1RT7dSqgsQLGbyndUx7Fmw81-VBxT93uZD3j66msyT2FuBLoA/s200/Hillandale+018.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669477499817349666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;">a female head teaching pro, Fran James. James and the other pros run free clinics for kids and frequently host charity events, including a recent outing for Duke bone marrow transplant patients and their families. Hillandale is itself an important source of employment in a bad economy. Fifteen full and part-time workers make their living there between the pros, greenskeepers, and others involved in running the course.<br /><br />Also notable is Hillandale's environmental record. Ellerbee </span><span style="font-size:180%;">Creek cuts through the course; it had been straightened, probably in the 1950s, into an ugly Army Corps of Engineers-style trench. But in an innovative collaboration with a local environmental group, the Ellerbee Creek Watershed Association, Hillandale superintendent Roy Clark oversaw the remeandering of the creek some five years ago. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dX4BaKwIHkoyyZ7HPfQzPVAD7rUOnR9Ck9qcHaOt8pY0pg4Sk-EMKV1RsdAxS_IriL6wlG2uXZNmOBNrUAsy13KJQbzt8HUA70whDxN_F5fcDCN7kGfS5oCgfmVrVhOhyphenhyphenUWSZg/s1600/Hillandale+009.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dX4BaKwIHkoyyZ7HPfQzPVAD7rUOnR9Ck9qcHaOt8pY0pg4Sk-EMKV1RsdAxS_IriL6wlG2uXZNmOBNrUAsy13KJQbzt8HUA70whDxN_F5fcDCN7kGfS5oCgfmVrVhOhyphenhyphenUWSZg/s200/Hillandale+009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669479731393654306" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;">The results have been spectacular. Trees and native shrubs have grown in along the creek; they add interest and beauty to the course and a bird sanctuary. The work included constructing a wetlands area to catch the oily run-off from I-85 that had previously run straight into Ellerbee Creek. The course itself is the single biggest green space in the central areas of Durham.<br /><br />The Hillandale closing had been scheduled for October </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihYG1BTd7hbvgDa6YWRFvyOYCKFraaejPBJrfqLhJgyFXNmHQAIhyphenhyphen-TXs1LwJlGjeh52O5mo8uZ3yhrPWPUq2OdcMKid4l_qb_28wIo2n5n3autfQywPAj1tcPMixbofZ2HFIJ5g/s1600/Hillandale+014.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihYG1BTd7hbvgDa6YWRFvyOYCKFraaejPBJrfqLhJgyFXNmHQAIhyphenhyphen-TXs1LwJlGjeh52O5mo8uZ3yhrPWPUq2OdcMKid4l_qb_28wIo2n5n3autfQywPAj1tcPMixbofZ2HFIJ5g/s200/Hillandale+014.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669488200298078370" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;">31. But the Sun Trust bank, which administers the course as a public trust, recently postponed the date. The city of Durham is now apparently negotiating to take over Hillandale.<br /><br />I hope an agreement will soon be reached and this great Durham spot kept open.<br /></span>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-86742068856685177992011-08-25T11:22:00.001-07:002011-08-27T06:38:46.516-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwrN526umrzTT6w_5E18kCqQ_qePpUnTMk78iKozW82gDVOX7d5rmcXSY8y8sjDepzu-fwzlpD1ZPiZyegbSsn38bZEpTI-OfOF4oRcH7p-WUoz74RRBw7a3_GfVDBUapSO5bVMA/s1600/Starn_cover_front.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwrN526umrzTT6w_5E18kCqQ_qePpUnTMk78iKozW82gDVOX7d5rmcXSY8y8sjDepzu-fwzlpD1ZPiZyegbSsn38bZEpTI-OfOF4oRcH7p-WUoz74RRBw7a3_GfVDBUapSO5bVMA/s400/Starn_cover_front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644856617860340786" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Forthcoming in January 2012 from Duke University Press</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;">“Orin Starn’s excellent examination of Tiger Woods offers deep insight, original thinking, and valuable new perspectives. This book tells us a lot about Tiger, but even more about ourselves.”—Jaime Diaz, senior writer, <i>Golf Digest</i></span>
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<br />“The next time someone asks me about anthropology’s value to contemporary cultural debates, I’ll just tell them to read Orin Starn’s <span style="font-style: italic;">The Passion of Tiger Woods</span>, a funny, engaging, readable and unapologetically anthropological take on celebrity scandal, popular culture, and American sports. From playful musings on a potentially recessive ‘golf gene’ to critiques of (wildly popular!) speculative genetic theories about black athleticism, Starn takes us on an entertaining ride through the history of a sport, the rise of its current superstar, and the media maelstrom of racial and sexual imagery that followed from a relatively minor car crash in Florida one fateful Thanksgiving night. I’m one of those people who was tired of hearing about Tigergate almost as soon as the story broke, but Starn does a convincing job of showing me why I should have been listening and watching even more closely.”—John L. Jackson Jr., author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness</span>
<br />Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-73052012458069402942011-08-25T11:15:00.000-07:002011-09-24T19:39:34.344-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Golf in Ghana</span></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwX3qkCiQECVfed339E2L_ErJUSvjv7cpKVKcLtbCWGylj6cy7YHiFNIWDaPXc4y6xe9Ao5ob7li1NJcqEq5_7EjeiTo3XDeGFNyjqbkAomo_TYiu46nN7sYsnI2xYAZyHKQ-xlA/s1600/DanieltheClubPro.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwX3qkCiQECVfed339E2L_ErJUSvjv7cpKVKcLtbCWGylj6cy7YHiFNIWDaPXc4y6xe9Ao5ob7li1NJcqEq5_7EjeiTo3XDeGFNyjqbkAomo_TYiu46nN7sYsnI2xYAZyHKQ-xlA/s200/DanieltheClubPro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633413454964557266" border="0" /></a><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >It’s an iron l</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >aw of golf economics that you won’t find many courses in poor countries.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >You need </span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >a healthy middle-class with the money and some spare time f</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >or the game to take root as it has in, say, Sweden, Taiwan, or South Korea.<span style=""> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >The only relatively prosperous African country is South Africa; and it’s</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" > the only one with a thriving golf scene, albeit still dominated by the </span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >country’s white minority. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >I was not much surprised, then, to discover that </span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >Ghana has only eight courses, according to the count of a young </span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >Ghanaian golf pro, Daniel Appiah, when I visited last month.<span style=""> </span>This West African country is better-known for its legendary ancient civilizations, kente cloth,<span style=""> </span>and Black Stars national soccer team (though they made an inglorious exit from the last World Cup after blowing a penalty kick chance).<span style=""> </span>The capital, Accra, is a sweltering megalopolis that juxtaposes the everyday hardships and vibrant street market culture of so many big African cities. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >Global investment marketeers tout Ghana as a success story with its growing GDP.<span style=""> </span>That would come as news to the more than fifty percent of Ghanaians below the poverty line. It was my first trip to Africa, and Ghana is the poorest place I’ve ever been, including years of fieldwork in the hard-scrabble Andes of Peru.There’s little steady work; child malnutrition everywhere; and miserable living conditions in slums without sewage and running water. Every year, legions of Ghanaians set out for Europe, Middle Eastern oil states, the United States, and elsewhere globally in search of a better life; millions more dream of escaping abroad. It’s been argued, only somewhat hyperbolically, that 21<sup>st</sup> century Africa has become a vast continental prison.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >But, then again, there’s also plenty of joy, beauty and life to be found. At his workshop in Accra’s Osu neighborhood, I met the fashion designer Kofi Ansah.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeXOy8EmfGMJJvNeFXUl34-7Dkt52ACaJOYvaZctaEWIQ5lHP7yi_DBxfoIPAcUuppqZs1Ss91kOD4EvriwDjAS1uB2NEw6YzMA82WoJQAlB7mDQSCXXrEVUAb5nXdZHosoUabA/s1600/KatyaKofi2.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeXOy8EmfGMJJvNeFXUl34-7Dkt52ACaJOYvaZctaEWIQ5lHP7yi_DBxfoIPAcUuppqZs1Ss91kOD4EvriwDjAS1uB2NEw6YzMA82WoJQAlB7mDQSCXXrEVUAb5nXdZHosoUabA/s200/KatyaKofi2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635894931855780834" border="0" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" ><span style=""> </span>He was concoting a wedding dress for my fiancé, Katya Wesolowski, an anthropologist, capoeira teacher, and director of the Duke in Ghana program.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>A London-trained friend of the famed genius bad boy designer Alexander McQueen, Ansah has made his career in his native Ghana.<span style=""> </span>His creations blend traditional motifs with avante-garde haute couture.<span style=""> </span>Later, I made the trek with Katya and her students to northern Togo to visit the village where my colleague Charles Piot, perhaps the best-known anthropologist of West Africa today, has worked for more than thirty years.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5qi4l_IO51TQ4NmSCIBA0yeihuG7BgJ1U50qzljSydVs-1nBZecxEdmgdoxLxc3TuxKZQTBcAg6heWcl5hFHDUpHnM4raIWopsZ5FZFHrn6c8T6cUXl7WJ3xaGVsit967c-LI8w/s1600/CharlieGeorgeKuwde.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5qi4l_IO51TQ4NmSCIBA0yeihuG7BgJ1U50qzljSydVs-1nBZecxEdmgdoxLxc3TuxKZQTBcAg6heWcl5hFHDUpHnM4raIWopsZ5FZFHrn6c8T6cUXl7WJ3xaGVsit967c-LI8w/s200/CharlieGeorgeKuwde.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635896505013647938" border="0" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" ><span style=""> </span>As challenging as life for farmers there, the village is stunningly beautiful -- a 21<sup>st</sup> century African Machu Pichu with its stone-walled compounds and terraced fields high up on a green tropical mountain. <span style=""> </span>Here, too, Africa seemed much more than just the proverbial beleaguered continent in need of saving by a would-be benevolent West as the Gates Foundation and so many NGOs and missionary groups would have it. No wonder that observers seem to swerve, almost schizophrenically, between Afroptimism and Afropessimism about Africa's future (and, needless to say, it’s foolish to draw many grand conclusions about the continent anyway given the tremendous heterogeneity of its regions, countries, and cultures).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >Most American visitors to Ghana head west to the Cape Coast, and I did too.<span style=""> </span>The area is best known for its infamous slave castles – Elmina and Cape Coast -- where millions of Africans were shipped off in bondage to the Americas.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhllxvqkzrB8fojPkZhUsiKs76Yq6rwdQ_xrsfvpPt-OR71DVDC4QjI1aMDXR2xU9JQSPMM4F5yKlG5b202xJ2fYN-YBYF33Bhrhlz1Vaoaqx7a_SEFf0zNo9LPqXoQiEPEcHV_mw/s1600/TouristsatCapeCoastCastle.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhllxvqkzrB8fojPkZhUsiKs76Yq6rwdQ_xrsfvpPt-OR71DVDC4QjI1aMDXR2xU9JQSPMM4F5yKlG5b202xJ2fYN-YBYF33Bhrhlz1Vaoaqx7a_SEFf0zNo9LPqXoQiEPEcHV_mw/s200/TouristsatCapeCoastCastle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635897551606144770" border="0" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" ><span style=""> </span>As anthropologist Bayo Holsey describes in her <i style="">Routes of Remembrance</i>, many African-Americans tourists make the pilgrimage back to the castles nowadays; Barack and Michele Obama visited last year. Paradoxically, however, many Ghanaians don’t much think or care much about the slave trade; it raises for them tricky questions of guilt and complicity insofar as various Ghanaian tribes slave raided themselves to supply the European demand for human chattel. Surviving the present-day realities of poverty and marginalization is the more immediate Ghanaian concern in any event.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >I toured the white-washed Cape Coast castle and its horrifying dungeons with a clatch of Senegalese and Nigerian tourists.<span style=""> </span>Some were solemn, but others took calls on their cell phones – one had a Lady Gaga ringer – much to the distress of our Ghanaian guide and an African-American couple on the tour. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Icb6mD-Nx4XB9vV8XI3h65CuOMJlKxyfBCoMJUxcaolrQF2ONK4Q4cupCOTcIe4XE3sMP9oAfejugcekGYjx29u9wh6mZwIPSeOBbUo8wDd-fwNRMJB70IKDWo7x-3S3LFJoVw/s1600/IMG_0309_1.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Icb6mD-Nx4XB9vV8XI3h65CuOMJlKxyfBCoMJUxcaolrQF2ONK4Q4cupCOTcIe4XE3sMP9oAfejugcekGYjx29u9wh6mZwIPSeOBbUo8wDd-fwNRMJB70IKDWo7x-3S3LFJoVw/s200/IMG_0309_1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635898450113865650" border="0" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" ><span style=""> </span>A friend who’s a historian of Nazi Germany, when I related this, said it's the same way at Auschwitz – cell phones buzzing, teen-agers Facebooking on their I-Phones.<span style=""> </span>No ground is too hallowed or blood-soaked to keep people off their devices in the age of mass tourism.<span style=""> </span>Outside the castle walls, Elminan villagers motored their hand-hewn wood plank boats out to sea for a night of fishing, oblivious to us tourists.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" ><span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlUwWPex5ihaBUZnuzRLAkGiWQOXBn9usQyTWUYhD33eizqyekAbeu7p2LTGJh4t-qdLeBEVaIpk9AoC5S9xKNbx0LL1d1g8X-2FuUb9S_dTlKfVDpyr9aSG7q3x36WHSMs9zM5w/s1600/110.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 143px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlUwWPex5ihaBUZnuzRLAkGiWQOXBn9usQyTWUYhD33eizqyekAbeu7p2LTGJh4t-qdLeBEVaIpk9AoC5S9xKNbx0LL1d1g8X-2FuUb9S_dTlKfVDpyr9aSG7q3x36WHSMs9zM5w/s200/110.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635899765447263122" border="0" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >They chanted and drummed in the local tribal language, Fante, as they headed out into the deep water. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >It was perhaps yet more postmodern tourist grotesque for me to visit the slave castles and then take to the fairways in the same day.<span style=""> </span>But I played a few holes later that afternoon anyway at the Coconut Grove Hotel <span style=""> </span>where I was staying. <span style=""> </span>I was joined by Daniel Appiah, the club pro, and we shared his incomplete set of clubs, which was missing wedge through five iron.<span style=""> </span>Daniel only had one tee as well, and we miraculously managed not break it between us.<span style=""> </span>Daniel had picked up the game at the hotel, and, in fact, taught himself to play almost scratch golf in spite of his slender frame.<span style=""> </span>He was the club pro by default because no one else on the staff knew how to play.<span style=""> </span>His favorite player?<span style=""> </span>Ernie Els, Africa’s most famous golfer.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbJB29KxKrHRzh1-dSbB6QIqIqHVBATE6pjsEFYQ6thSGDcUxXU9Rh43yJ43C8mpJZ4_B9qbJBXhzTv1_bt6tpkT8b5XvTusff4OfK8EydVCkf-4nxiqL_VWsCR5buQupsy1iHfw/s1600/TurfatCoconutGrove.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbJB29KxKrHRzh1-dSbB6QIqIqHVBATE6pjsEFYQ6thSGDcUxXU9Rh43yJ43C8mpJZ4_B9qbJBXhzTv1_bt6tpkT8b5XvTusff4OfK8EydVCkf-4nxiqL_VWsCR5buQupsy1iHfw/s200/TurfatCoconutGrove.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635896000300268498" border="0" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >The Coconut Grove course was little more than a cow pasture, albeit with astonishingly narrow fairways lined by scraggly trees.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Daniel’s drive raised a flock of turkey vultures on the first hole; our drives in the second hole had to traverse a pit of crocodiles, there to add a dash of color to the hotel.<span style=""> </span>I was so soaked with sweat that I felt as if I’d taken a shower with my clothes on at the end.<span style=""> </span>Daniel didn’t even seem to have broken a sweat.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;" >He shook my hand, then headed off into the tropical twilight with his bag of six clubs and that single wooden tee.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Garamond;font-size:14pt;" ><span style=""> </span></span></p>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-69500668922294833462010-11-20T15:55:00.000-08:002011-08-27T06:44:18.186-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDohMUybQ51wY7qzy6NjyZWYl-5UtSRJmfv19iIX7VL6brbY4bbb4pMC7r4rtroQ9wGV4Mvw2-cZQP9d6M9De9D2_9Su2j5meoZnLnRyg4tFLJ9M5UdM9hewr-IwHWRdnrFr36mw/s1600/Starn_cover_front.jpg"><img style="float: left; 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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Passion of Tiger Woods</span>
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<br />I recently finished a short book about Tiger's troubles, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal</span><span>.</span> It's forthcoming from Duke University Press here in Durham. I gave a first public presentation about the book last week at Duke's John Hope Franklin Center. This was a big step for me: the first real event of any kind I've done since going to Sweden for a major double artificial disc surgery in September. Here, complete with my annoying verbal tic of using "sort of" seemingly every sentence, is an excerpt about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KifgS7xl0g&feature=channel"> Tigergate and our strange modern obsession with celebrity scandal</a>.Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-20523451362518992382009-12-20T13:05:00.000-08:002010-01-03T05:35:03.650-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tiger Agonistes</span><br /><br />Everyone has an opinion about the incredible fall of Tiger Woods. My favorite piece in these latest annals of Tigerology <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20rich.html?hp"> is by Frank Rich </a>(for my money America's best columnist). Rich takes the gap between the appearance and reality of Tiger as a metaphor for our times -- the selling of the Iraq war on false pretenses; the Enron scandal and disastrous Wall Street trickery; and all that other lying and duplicity that has fooled an intellectually lazy and gullible America over recent decades.<br /><br />At least we can thank Tiger for giving friends and families something to talk about over the holidays. And there's doubtless much more to come in this story that's careened far beyond the worst nightmares of Tiger's handlers. Is a divorce in the works? How long will Tiger remain in seclusion? Can we expect one of those confessional press conferences or tv interviews? Will Tiger be granted that second chance that Americans love to extend to their disgraced yet repentant heroes? And what about Tiger's golf game and his pursuit of the holy grail of most career major victories? There will be plenty more material for the gossip rags, pundits, golf experts, and even anthropologists. I wrote this article published in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Toronto Globe and Mail</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Philadephia Inquirer</span>, and several other papers.<br /><br /> * * * <br /><br />What Kind of Tiger Will Emerge from the Wilderness?<br /><br />By Orin Starn<br /><p>As a weekend golfer who is also an anthropologist, I've been watching the recent travails of Tiger Woods and am struck by how well they fit with one of my profession's standby concepts, namely that of the “social drama.”</p> <p>According to this model, developed by the great Scottish anthropologist Victor Turner, every society undergoes crises that unfold in a culturally ritualized form. Dr. Turner premised four stages to the most common chain of events: breech, crisis, redressive action and reintegration.</p> <p>Although he based his scheme on traditional African tribes, it applies surprisingly well to our own wired world, including celebrity scandal. In the most recent case, Mr. Woods's alleged affairs breached our culture's conventions. Crisis followed – the superstar's headline-grabbing crash followed by allegations of his involvement with a cocktail waitress and other women, and another late-night ambulance visit to his home. Both the real life of Tiger Woods the man and the vanilla corporate profile of Tiger Woods the brand seemed to crumble almost overnight.</p> <p>The third stage, an attempt at redressive action, began with a statement on the golfer's website apologizing for “transgressions” and harm to his family.</p> <p>We now approach the fourth stage in this anthropological drama, namely reintegration and repairing the gap that has opened between Mr. Woods and his fans. It's a sequence we've seen before with other sinning superstars, such as with Alex Rodriguez's steroid use. In that case, the baseball player's public confession and later strong postseason performance seemed to lead many fans to embrace him with real affection for the first time.</p> <p>But, as Dr. Turner observed in <st1:place st="on">Africa</st1:place> and as anthropologists have noted, social dramas can also end not with a resolution, but with a permanent schism. It's already clear that Mr. Woods will not easily regain his place as one of the planet's most ubiquitous pitchmen and culture heroes. Nowadays, redressive action seems to work only if you're willing to squirm and suffer a bit in front of the cameras. As much as it goes against the control-freak personality of a man who named his yacht “Privacy,” Mr. Woods may have to face the ritual humiliation and penitence of a Barbara Walters interview or a teary press conference if he wants to refurbish his brand.</p> <p>For now, he occupies the space of what we anthropologists call “liminality” – the wilderness between one status and another. He is no longer the role model whose triumphs on the golf course seemed to be matched by his rectitude and family bliss off it. But while he remains secluded from the prying public eye, neither do we know just what he will become.</p> <p>During my research for a coming book about golf's role in American society, I followed Mr. Woods around at the U.S. Open tournament several years ago. A crowd of thousands kicked up the dust while trailing this single man, like the devotees of some prophet. Mr. Woods radiated charisma then, but I felt something icy and almost selfish about his capacity to shut out the world in pursuing a lower score. I also was struck by gallery members' nervousness, even fear, of coughing or moving during his swing and being singled out for his withering displeasure. Mr. Woods was like Apollo, a brilliant yet frightening god.</p> <p>I understood how important his intense focus was to his success, and I do hope he will continue to use it to thrill us with his athletic genius. Simultaneously, though, the anthropologist side of me hopes he will find a way to let us in a bit more. The great golfer would not be the less for stopping sometimes to slap hands with a little boy or to smile now and then to the crowd. As his aura of otherworldliness diminishes, perhaps he can find a way to replace it with something that will better integrate him with the rest of us mortals.</p> <p>We know he's human now, and I'm rooting for him – not only on the golf course but in life.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-16971038088344554682009-07-31T06:26:00.000-07:002011-09-16T17:41:51.527-07:00<b><span style="">Tom Watson and the Sorrow of Aging<br /><o:p></o:p></span></b> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">It would have been another one for the ages.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">A golfer, almost 60, triumphing at the world’s most hallowed championship. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">It looked until the very last as if Tom Watson would pull off the miracle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Only that simple eight-foot putt stood between him and an amazing victory at the British Open.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="">Everyone there at Turnberry with its glorious seaside vistas and millions watching worldwide held our collective breath.<span style=""> </span>We groaned with sympathetic disappointment when the great old champion made a dreadful, nervy putt that never had chance.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">But there was also something inevitable about this denouement. <span style=""> </span>Aren’t sports really for the young?<span style=""> </span>In his classic <i style="">Sports: A Philosophic Inquiry</i>, the Yale philosopher Paul Weiss pointed out that it “is young men who are most absorbed in sports and participate most passionately and successfully.”<span style=""> </span>Weiss believed this dominance had to do not only with superior flexibility and strength, but also because sports is the only realm of society where the young have a real chance to excel: “No longer boys, they are not yet full adults able to function as prime factors in society, state, or civilization. The best that most of them can do is excel at sport.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="">Only a few men and women, Weiss concluded, “perform exceptionally well in middle age.” And those that do “are so few in number that almost every case awakens our wonder and admiration.”<span style=""></span><span style=""></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">With wonder and admiration indeed we watched Watson beat back time for 71 holes.<span style=""> </span>You could see the years in the slight limp of his newly replaced hip; and in his creased face splotched at the neck with sun damage (and Watson, like many of us older golfers, played his whole career without a hat in that age before anyone thought of sunscreen and skin cancer).<span style=""> </span>But his compact, confident swing looked just the same as in the glory days of the early 1980s.<span style=""> </span>Then he’d become the world’s best player with his gap-toothed Huck Finn look and relentless competitive spirit.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="">It should also be noted that Watson even displayed the kind of moral and political fortitude in such short supply in the insular, conservative bubble of professional golf.<span style=""> </span>In 1990, the Kansas City Country Club denied membership to Henry Bloch, the founder of<span style=""> </span>H. and R. Block, because he was a Jew. <span style=""> </span>Watson resigned in protest.<span style=""> </span>The shamed club admitted admitted Bloch several years later.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">And one of golf’s great virtues is that it can be played almost to the grave (or for that matter all the way to the end: Bing Crosby, an avid player, died of a heart attack on the 18<sup>th</sup> hole at a Spanish club).<span style=""> </span>Many golfers don’t reach their prime until their late 30s, at an age when most NFL and NBA stars have long since retired. <span style=""></span>The 48-year old wonder Kenny Perry ranks third on the PGA money list this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p></o:p>Clearly, in fact, we older golfers find special satisfaction in golf because it allows us one last chance to play. <span style=""> </span>Freud, a chess player but not a golfer, saw play as an original, almost primordial form of pleasure.<span style=""> </span>When we are children, play allows us to create worlds of our own, ones that please us better than the humdrum and sometimes pain of reality itself.<span style=""> </span>As grown-ups, we are supposed to be serious, to work, to stop playing.<span style=""> </span>But, as Freud noted, almost nothing is harder<span style=""> </span>“than to give up a pleasure we have once tasted.”<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">And golf, as much we may be expected to “work” on our games,<span style=""> </span>is a return to the sandbox, this time with the latest super-sized titanium driver and other fancy golf gear as our treasured toys.<span style=""> </span>Children, Freud noted, will repeat even unpleasurable experiences in play because the child “by being active…gains far more thorough-going control…than when he was merely its passive recipient.”<span style=""> </span>The same goes for golf.<span style=""> </span>Most of us hit more bad shots than good; yet the swing remains ours to control in the make-believe world of the golf course.<span style=""> </span>We fantasize about the hole in one and the personal best score. In that overlap between pleasure, fantasy, and dreaming, we speak of the “shot to go to sleep with": the one really good one we may have hit that day and which we will replay in our heads come bedtime in a grown-up version of counting sheep.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Exact repetition bores adults, by contrast to the toddler who’ll delightedly play peek-aboo over and over again.<span style=""> </span>But the variation of each shot and golf course – as silly a measure of “difference” in the broader picture of golf sameness as it may seem to an outsider – allow for the “novelty” that Freud called the “precondition of enjoyment” for grown-ups. And, just like the play of children, golfers take their game very seriously.<span style=""> </span>The opposite of play – as Freud had it -- is not seriousness, but reality. That goes for both toddlers on the playground and full-grown golfers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">All this helps to explain why golf has such purchase among those of us moving into life’s later years.<span style=""> </span>Like the retirees who serve as starters and “rangers” -- those <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">St. Peters</st1:place></st1:city> of the golf course -- in exchange for free green fees, old people abound at golf courses.<span style=""> </span>And, it seems to me, death looms large by its very absence – the cheeriness of the joking, the gaudy clothes, and the hyperalive green grass contrasting with mortality’s finality and dreary colorlessness.<span style=""> </span>The very greenness of the course – everything in its biochemically maintained time warp of health and disease-free, almost cryogenic order – stands in juxtaposition to the sagging, imperfect bodies of aging golfers there<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">We know the Sphinx’s riddle, but it has a golf variant.<span style=""> </span>What walks on two legs in the morning, three in the afternoon, and four in the evening?<span style=""> </span>It’s the golfer.<span style=""> </span>We pass from the youthful carrying of our own bags to pushing clubs in a handcart to, finally, riding in a golf cart when walking the course at all becomes too much.<span style=""> </span>Finally, for the very old, even cart golf becomes too much.<span style=""> </span>That bad heart, the stroke or just plain frailty expels you from golf’s green kingdom for good, watching on TV all that remains.<span style=""> </span>It marks the end of the real activity that makes us fully alive – the entry into what the anthropologist Victor Turner famously called the “liminal” state between life – and death. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">In a way, in fact, golf is about staving off death, a last search for pleasure and the impossible grail of completeness in a world where, or so Freud insisted, “the dread of death…dominates us often than we know.” <span style=""> </span>You can see the shadow of death on the golf course everywhere if have eyes to see it. Consider the honorary starter tradition at the Masters.<span style=""> </span>Here legendary past champions hit the ceremonial first drive. <span style=""> </span>Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Byron Nelson each peformed these ritual duties before then passing on one by one.<span style=""> </span>In 2006, the great Arnold Palmer agreed to take on the task. For all the ceremony's cheer and bonhomie, it was hard not to think of the contrast between the young, strapping, suburban sex symbol Palmer and the seventy-seven year old – who’d already fought off prostate cancer – arthritically stooping just to tee up the ball.<span style=""> </span>After hitting his drive, Palmer joked about wanting to “play on” (and he'd been upset when, a few years before, he'd been asked to no longer play in the tournament).<span style=""> But the silver-haired champion</span> was not allowed to do this, of course, the honorary starter’s role to hit and get out of the way for Tiger Woods and the other competitors in youth’s fleeting flush.<span style=""> </span>If the springtime tournament is about renewal and the honorary starter the handing down of the sacred bundle of tradition, it is also, the unspoken part, about mortality and loss, the reduction of young champions to creaky old men nearing life's end.<span style=""> </span>Palmer had tears in his eyes later – and they were not of joy -- in describing the moment for his understanding of its significance in his life’s curve.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">And this brings me back around to Tom Watson.<span style=""> </span>A late bloomer like Kenny Perry may have his run or, against all odds, a man of as freakish resolve and ability as Watson will himself to a point just a stroke away from winning the British Open. <span style=""> </span>It might have seemed just bad luck that he lost at all.<span style=""> </span>His perfectly struck eight iron on the final hole bounced just a bit too hard, and went over the green (and, if it had not, Watson would have had two easy putts for the Claret Jug).<span style=""> </span>Neil Oxman, a prominent Democratic political consultant who moonlights as Watson’s caddy, told NPR only half-jokingly that his final words would be “I should have had Tom hit a nine iron.”<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>I don’t think it was a matter of luck or judgment.<span style=""> </span>It’s no coincidence that no one older than 52 – and it was the amazing West Virginian hillbilly Sam Snead – has ever won a PGA tournament; and Julius Boros, whose favorite good golfing advice was “swing easy, hit hard,” is the oldest man ever to win a major championship at 48.<span style=""> </span>It’s almost impossible for a man in his fifties to muster the energy, skill, and confidence to claim victory at these most challenging of tests.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">And, in fact, that most classic malady of the aging golfer sank Watson in the end: the yips.<span style=""> </span>They come upon some of us when the body loses the thoughtless confidence of youth and the unsteady hand jabs even the shortest putts anywhere but in the hole. Watson has had the yips for years.<span style=""> </span>Miraculously, he managed to will in short putt after testy short putt for seventy-one holes.<span style=""> </span>He couldn’t do it to the end.<span style=""> </span>He yipped that last putt at Turnberry with Chronos, the Greek God of Time, grabbing him at last. 59, <span style="font-style: italic;">pace</span> Thomas Friedman in his <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times </span>column about Watson, is not the new 30. It's just 59.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Watson took his loss in stride.<span style=""> </span>He’s all too familiar with pain and death having suffered through the passing of his long-time caddy after a bout with Lou Gehrig’s disease (a story chronicled by John Feinstein in <i style="">Caddy for Life: The Story of Bruce Edwards</i>).<span style=""> </span>“It just didn’t work out,” as he told one interviewer.<span style=""> </span>It’s power of positive thinking, not to mention ability, that separates the champions from the rest of us.<span style=""> </span>Watson was already looking forward to the next tournament.<span style=""> </span>Sometimes, he said, his disappointments inspire him to even better golf.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Jack Nicklaus, who knows something about winning major championships, called Watson’s second place a “great achievement.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">It was that indeed no matter for the finish.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-92100758794052628922008-11-14T14:43:00.000-08:002009-04-23T06:47:53.799-07:00<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">OBAMA AND THE TIGER WOODS PARADOX</span><br /><br />I had no doubt that Barack Obama would win the presidency.<br /><br />Consider this: every single American president for the last century has been a golfer (with the lone exception of Jimmy Carter, who only lasted one term anyway). The Obama campaign preferred photo-ops of their man jumping it up with the troops at the more plebeian sport of basketball. But our new president has long played golf when he can, both vacationing in his native Hawaii and in his adopted home state of Illinois. His victory was thus assured by the Golf Theory of the Presidency given that neither Hillary Clinton nor John McCain happens to indulge in the the old Scottish game.<br /><br />Many observers, <a href="http://golfpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiger-and-barack-ive-been-fascinated-by.html">me included</a>, have noted the uncanny parallels between Obama and Tiger Woods. In this op-ed just published in the<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> Philadelphia Inquirer</span> and other newspapers, I explore what lessons Tiger's impact in golf may have for our new president.<br /><br />-----------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />Still A Long Way To The Green<br /><br />By Orin Starn<br /><br />It’s not farfetched to argue that Tiger Woods’popularity helped pave the way for Barack Obama’s smashing victory. That legions of golfing white businessmen already idolized Woods may well have made it less of a stretch for them and others to imagine a black man as the country’s president.<br /><br />For that matter, Woods, much like Obama, presents himself as something of a new “post-racial” figure crossing old color lines by virtue of his mixed ancestry.<br /><br />But if Woods did indeed make it easier for some to cast their vote for Obama, the superstar golfer’s impact on his own sport holds a cautionary lesson for an Obama presidency -- there’s no necessary correlation between the feel-good symbolism of a pioneering racial breakthrough and actual on-the-ground progress towards a race-blind America.<br /><br />Many observers predicted that Woods’ example would revolutionize the sociology of golf. They thought many more minority kids would be encouraged to take up the old Scottish pastime, and the sport shed its ugly racial past once and for all. (The PGA tour had a Caucasians-only clause until 1961). The golf establishment promotes its youth golf programs with Kumbaya-style TV ads of smiling inner-city kids, as if the game had indeed put the messy matters of race and money in the rearview mirror.<br /><br />Actually, golf has gone into racial reverse by many measures. Back in the 1970s, 10 different African-Americans played on the PGA tour; a poor Chicano kid from Dallas, Lee Trevino, became one of the era’s top golfers. Now Woods is the lone black golfer among the 125 card-holding pros, and there are no rising young junior black stars.<br /><br />Two U.S.-born Latinos now play on the PGA tour, as do an increased international contingent and some exciting new Asian-American stars. Yet the circuit remains overwhelmingly comprised of whites from country club backgrounds. You don’t even see black or Latino caddies anymore, now that carrying the golf bags of a Woods or Phil Mickelson has become a lucrative enterprise.<br /><br />The reasons for the whitening of professional golf are complex. Except for the touring pros, golfers no longer use caddies in the age of the golf cart. This has shut a traditional backdoor into the game for poor and minority kids. And to train a golf champion takes big money that many black and Latino families do not have.<br /><br />So does the Tiger Woods paradox really have any relevance for an Obama presidency? I think so. If the visibility of Woods promotes the illusion of race as “fixed” in golf, the very same danger exists with Obama for the country as a whole. His election encourages a fuzzy self-congratulatory feeling that we’ve exorcised the demons of slavery and Jim Crow at last. It can be easy to forget the outsized hardships facing so many black and Latino kids growing up in tough neighborhoods. Poverty, marginalization, and brown skin still very often travel together in America today<br /><br />Just look at who's doing most of the ditch-digging, grass-cutting, and other dirty work at America's golf courses. It's Latino laborers, barely earning enough to get by.<br /><br />And we don’t exactly yet have a government that looks like America either. Just as Woods is now the only African-American on the PGA tour, so Obama has been the only one in the U.S. Senate. Now there are none with his resignation last week to focus on the presidency.<br /><br />The real question is whether an Obama administration will make strides towards addressing the old ghosts of poverty and racial inequality that still haunt 21st century America.<br /><br />His election was a good opening shot. We still have a long iron over water yet to go.Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-52201307062107703332008-08-07T19:12:00.001-07:002008-08-28T15:42:58.898-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Golftopia</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have a new favorite golf destination.</p><p class="MsoNormal">It’s Belfast, the tough old capital city of northern Ireland. You wouldn’t think that golf would have much place in this peculiar little country with its outsized history of blood and turmoil. When I was a teen-ager back in the 1970s, it seemed as if the latest Belfast bombing was always on the grainy black-and-white tv evening news. It was like Biafra and Cambodia, in that category of hellish places that not even those brave backpacker tourists dreamed of visiting.<br /><br />Everything has changed. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement ended the worst violence between Catholics and Protestants. Although a bit behind the so-called “Celtic Tiger” of neighboring Ireland, a growing economy has brought new prosperity. Now Belfast has the chic outdoor cafes, track-lighted modern art museum, and boutique hotels of any other mid-sized European city. The Troubles, as they are now called, left 3,000 dead and lasting mistrust and hatred, but they're also now part of Belfast mythology. Each side's colorful propaganda murals have become tourist attractions. Tour buses cruise along for a view of the strangely named “Peace Wall.” This monstruous concrete barrier – a model for the more recent Israeli security wall to keep out Palestinians -- separates hardcore Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods. There’s even a little museum where you can buy a poster of Bobby Sands, the long-haired young Irish Republic Army (IRA) who smiles down from the street murals like some martyred revolutionary savior in the tradition of Che Guevara and Malcolm X.<br /><br />And golf has become a booming growth industry. Many of northern Ireland’s early settlers came across the <st1:place st="on">Irish Sea</st1:place> from <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Scotland</st1:country-region></st1:place>, and they had the game in their blood. Even during the worst of the Troubles, the dedicated hacker would still tee it up. One friend, an officer in Royal Ulster Constabulary, recalls using a mirror on a stick to check for bombs under his car before driving off to the club. There’s a scruffy little old public course in downtown right by the church where Ian Paisley presided as the minister. Parishioners would listen to the famous Protestant firebrand rail against the “republican devils,” then head for their Sunday eighteen just across the street.<br /><br />Now, in peacetime, the game has expanded as never before, a boom propelled by new golf tourism. With dozens of new tracks, boasts one brochure,northern Ireland has become “one big golf course.” Back in the 1970s and 1980s, young British troops flew into Belfast with guns, tear gas and riot gear to try to keep the peace. Now a new generation of British invaders comes over from Birmingham and London for a golfing weekend. And that's not to mention the legions of American, Swedish, and Japanese businessmen pulling those rollaway golf travel bags through the Belfast International Airport in the summer high season.<br /><br />I had the good fortune just now to play the two crown jewels of northern Irish golf, Royal County Down and Royal Portrush. Both these two venerable tracks lie seaside just a little over an hour’s drive from Belfast;they rank sixth and twelfth in the <a href="http://search.golf.com/top-courses-and-resorts/top-100-world-courses-2007.html?No=10&sid=11BA01A3D718&Ntk=main&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nf=P_RankWorld%7CLT+101&N=0&Ns=P_RankWorld%7c0&Nty=1">Golf.com ranking of the world’s best courses</a>.The green fees are pricey, and northern Ireland is no bargain for Americans with the pathetically weak dollar. It felt like a privilege even so to spend a few hours out on these two gorgeous, scary, and just plain sublime outdoor temples to the game.<br /><br />You head north from Belfast to Royal Portrush. By contrast to the gated exclusivity of seaside American resorts like Kiawah Island and Hilton Head, the town of Portrush is an unpretentious vacation spot of little distinction besides its famous golf course. The clubhouse itself sits right by the highway, and there’s a trailer park out to the right of the first hole. As typical of so much British Isles golf, all this gives Royal Portrush an appealingly less cloistered feel than the sterile American country club cordoned off by its hedges and fences from the workaday world.<br /><br />I marveled at the sheer beauty of the place for all that. The gloriously blooming gorse made for a palette of its yellow patches against the pale links grass green and the big blue sea stretching out towards the Isle of Skye. And the ruins of the ancient Dunluce Castle rose down the coastline straight from the Lord of the Rings (and old Irish mythology was one of J.R. Tolkien’s inspiration for his great fantasy masterpiece). It’s a muscular seacoast that reminds me of Mendocino on California's north coast,a place to bring your hiking boots and a sweater and leave your beach towel and bathing suit behind.<br /><br />And then there’s the golf. Portrush is links golf, but very different from the archetype of St. Andrews back in Scotland. There it’s flat, and you can see out to the Firth of Forth and the town from almost anywhere on the course. At Portrush the crumpled, angular dunes make for a much more up and down topography. You feel as if in your own private world down in the twisting fairways; the towering dunes block your view to sea, and sometimes even the next hole over. Then you come up to a tee or green and suddenly the view of the Irish Sea and its massive coastline opens up once more. I can’t think of a more gorgeous hole anywhere in the world than the 5th. Here the fairway climbs up to a green perched on a high sandy bluff with the waves rolling in just down below. The alleway intimacy down in the bottomlands accentuates the vastness of the windy panorama at these high points. Portrush is a course of breaks, dips, and angles that mesmerizes exactly in the breathtaking aggregate of its contrasts.<br /><br />I got to play Portrush through the American journalist Bruce Selcraig, whose friends Noel Gault and Garth Bresland are long-time members there. Back in the clubhouse, I asked Noel and Garth about northern Ireland. What had it been like to live through the Troubles, I asked with regulation American golf tourist naivete? Noel, a retired bank manager, looked incredulous. "What,” he replied, “do you think it was like to have your friends getting killed?” Garth explained that this northern tip of the island was heavily Protestant and, in general, the more upscale clubs were the same in this country where a feeling of second-class citizenship among Catholics catalyzed the violence. But Portrush, he added, does have Catholic members, and, at least in his view, “ninety percent of the people in northern Ireland don’t care now about sectarian identity.” By contrast to the image of an Ulster in flames, Garth said he always felt safer than in than Florida, where he has a condominium in a golf development. The most obvious change has been the flood of golf tourists up to Portrush. Noel and Garth didn’t like the slow play of the Americans, but they admitted they had nothing to complain about. The take from the $250 dollar green fees means that their own membership costs less than $2,000 a year, a steal for one of the world’s great clubs.<br /><br />I made my way down to Royal County Down the next day. I was especially interested in this course because it so influenced my favorite American golf course architect <a href="http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-ncgolf9mar09">Mike Strantz</a> and, before I headed to the first tee, I chatted with club secretary James Laidler about the club’s history. A northern Irish Augusta or <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Pine</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Valley</st1:placetype></st1:place> in its exclusivity, Royal County Down has only about 120 members; Laidler is only its sixth secretary. This affable Englishman also saw the violence as a thing of the past. The unification of <st1:country-region st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region> and <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">northern Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place>, he believed, was inevitable in this new age of the superhighway, the Internet, and the borderless European Union. “It used to be four hours from here to <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Dublin</st1:place></st1:city>,” he said.“I made it in an hour and a half the other day.”<br /><br />As for Royal County Down, Laidler explained that the club keeps faithful to hallowed links golf traditions. That means minimal watering and firm conditions. Interestingly, he added, the long-term ambition was to dig up the gorse, the thorny plant I’d always thought was emblematic of the links golf experience. According to Laidler, gorse is really an invasive weed. Rabbits and sheep kept it in check in an older day. The plant and its vast banks of signature yellow flowers are nonetheless in no imminent danger at Royal County Down. It's hard enough for the ground crew just to keep it in check much less get rid of it.<br /><br />I was assigned a veteran caddy with a good Irish name, Mick. A construction worker in the winter off-season, Mick had not long ago taken his kids to Disneyworld on the strong pound. He looked more like some Irish movie star in his wrap-around sun-glasses than the stereotypical grizzled Scottish bag toter, but was very much the the master caddy with his yardages and good advice. I wasn't surprised when he told me he’d caddied for the likes of Gary Player and Mark O’Meara (having lost the draw of straws for carrying Tiger Woods’s bag when the two friends played a Royal County Down a few years back).<br /><br />Mick turned out to be Protestant. His took a very dim view of the IRA, and admitted that divisions still run deep in northern Ireland. As he noted, wearing the Catholic green of the Glasgow Celtics in a Protestant neighborhood – or, conversely, the Protestant Glasgow Rangers Blue in a Catholic one – can still get you beaten up. This white-on-white hatred recalls what Freud famously labeled the “narcissism of minor difference” where two groups of people with very much in common nonetheless make blood enemies of one another. And yet for all this, Mick felt optimistic that the worst of it was over in these new times. His sister was married a Catholic. A few older relatives had objected, he said, and yet most of the family on both sides was fine with this mixed union.<br /><br />The course was just as marvelous as Royal Portrush, albeit in a different way. If Portrush feels more untamed with its big rugged coastline, then <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">County</st1:placetype> <st1:placename st="on">Down</st1:placename></st1:place> is a golfing version of the impeccable manorial seaside garden. Meticulous greenskeeping means not a stray dandelion or a blade of bent grass out of place.Here the sea is more beach than bluff and an archetypal Irish countryside of stone fences and houses spreads out to one side with the lovely mountains of Mourne rising up in the other. That the courses lies right up against the charming beach town of Newcastle and its rambling red brick Victorian hotel adds to the picturesque old moneyed civility of it all.<br /><br />Everything about the course was by turns artful, lovely, and perilous.“The kind of golf people play in their most ecstatic dreams,” wrote Bernard Darwin, the nephew of Charles and a leading golf writer of his time. It felt a bit magical indeed to be out there on this gentle summer morning. I was especially taken by the front nine with its views of the silvery sea and mountains; it's easy to see why some cognoscenti call it the world's greatest opening nine. Mike Strantz took his love for the blind tee shot from Royal County Down, and the single most memorable hole is the 9<sup>th</sup> where you hit over a big hill down to a twisting fairway backed by the town of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Newcastle</st1:city></st1:place> and the mountains of Mourne. Miss and you end up in the gorse or some impossible bunker. It’s a course where the blow up hole awaits at every turn.<br /><br />Mick and I had the course almost to ourselves on this day. I only wish that I’d taken more time. Like Portrush, Royal County Down draws thousands of well-heeled golfing pilgrims from abroad, and Mick knew the psychology. Early on, he commented that I seemed to be quite a fast player. This was very flattering, of course, the expert native caddy singling me out from the stereotypical slow-playing American as if I'd been made an honorary Irishman for a day. I started playing even faster to live up to Mick's expectations. We finished the round in just two hours. Mick got off the course with his full fee and an extra couple of hours at the pub or home with his kids. I realized that I’d rushed through one of the world’s best golf courses at the hurry-up speed of quick twilight nine at the local public track. It was like journeying to Paris to visit the Louvre and then sprinting by the Leonardos, the Raphaels, and the Venus de Milo in less than an afternoon. <br /><br />But I didn’t mind.<br /><br />Now I have an excuse to return some day.Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-78855671231783329972007-12-25T17:20:00.000-08:002008-03-29T17:58:28.762-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">Priced Out of Pinehurst</span><br /><br />James Tufts decided to build a resort in the scruffy Carolina pine barrens back in 1895.<br /><br />The soda fountain magnate envisioned Pinehurst as a vacation mecca for the common man. The golf courses and other attractions would serve those “who require the beneficial effect of a winter in the South, but cannot afford the usual high price for accommodations.” Tufts hired the great golf architect Donald Ross for the courses and the even more famous landscape designer Frederick Law Olmstead to lay out Pinehurst village.<br /><br />But the resort is anything but a bargain now a century later.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">You’ll need to break open your piggy bank and raid your retirement fund if you want to take a shot at Pinehurst today. I was amazed to learn just how much it costs to play the fabled No. 2 course on a trip last week. The green fee – and this in the cold gray winter low season – is a whopping $375. A caddy costs another $45 – and a $40 or so tip for your man. That’ll be a grand total of $455 for the privilege of teeing off on No. 2, the Chateau Mouton-Rothschild of golf courses at least by price.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The funny little secret is that the course itself is not that good. It just made the Golf.com <a href="http://www.golf.com/golf/gallery/article/0,28242,1627078,00.html">top ten list of overrated coures in America</a><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"></st1:place></st1:country-region>, and deservedly so. Although I always admire the 1920s Arts and Crafts-era grace to every Donald Ross design, there’s nothing extraordinary about Pinehurst No. 2. The layout is ungainly, curling as it does around the driving range on the back nine with several holes strangely disjointed in their isolation from one another. At Pebble Beach, you get the divine ocean holes for your $400. Here there’s just the loblolly pines and the pale blue Carolina sky. “The trouble with Pinehurst,” as Ben Hogan said, “is that when you try to think of one great hole, you can’t.Nothing jumps to mind.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">It’s the green complexes that the pundits cite as the greatness of Pinehurst No. 2, and the genius of Ross. Yet as <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HFI/is_6_56/ai_n14707636">golf architecture critic Ron Whitten notes in a fine article</a>, these trademark turtleback surfaces were never part of Ross’s design. It was only decades of accumulated top-dressing – and the bulldozing and sculpting of subsequent redesigns – that elevated the putting surfaces to their present exaggerated contours.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nor do the green complexes make for especially interesting golf. When I splurged to play No. 2 eight years ago (it cost an already exorbitant $225 back then), it was clear enough that precision with your irons was required. A miss on almost any hole leads the ball to roll straight down off into the collection area that surrounds each green. But all the endless hyperbole about how the course “tests all aspects of your short game” is just that. The shots that one is left with are quite similar and monotonous. Typically, you have to get the ball up from the closely mown collection area back onto the green, whether flipping it up with wedge or, as the less steady among us are advised, running it up with a putter. It's the same shot over and over again -- the tight lie, the 100 foot or so distance. They’re not easy, but they don’t demand any great variety of short game virtuosity.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Precisely, one suspects, because the course itself is not so special, the Pinehurst resort owners play up its history at every opportunity. The clubhouse is stuffed with old photographs of former champions; and the bronze statues of Ross, Tufts, and the more recent legend Payne Stewart also pluck at the mystic chords of heritage and nostalgia. And consider Pinehurst President Donald Padgett II's greeting to visiting golfers printed in the No.2 yardage book: “Shots by Ouimet, Hogan, Nicklaus, Palmer and Stewart still echo down the fairways. Pinehurst has welcomed some of the greatest names in golf.Now, yours is one of them. Thank you for celebrating with us.” Celebrate away, that is, once you’ve plunked down the $375 green fee and, Padgett also hopes, dropped hundreds more spending a night or two at the resort’s also dreadfully overpriced Carolina Hotel. Got heritage? Yup, but don't forget to bring that credit card along. Platinum only, please.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">And that heritage is itself predictably selective. You’d never know that a Pinehurst statute once barred from owning property “any person of Jewish or Negro descent and lineage.” Or that black maids were not even allowed to clean the hotel rooms of white guests until 1960.Donald Ross himself kept black caddies in line. When one suggested forming a union, as Bradley Klein recounts in his <i>Discovering Donald Ross</i>, the old Scotsmen whacked him with a five iron. The ugly side of Jim Crow Pinehurst vanishes altogether in all the sepia celebration of resort traditions.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Even today, most African Americans at Pinehurst are maids, waiters, doormen, or caddies, a racial time warp. Jamaican workers do the course maintenance.“It’s the Confederate South,” said one younger black caddie I met this time around. He said he’d only caddied for three blacks in the last year, one a well-known basketball coach.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">If you want the flavor of Carolina Sand Hills golf, go stay at the homey <a href="http://www.pinecrestinnpinehurst.com/">Pine Crest Inn</a>.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Play Mike Strantz’s stunning Tobacco Road.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>And if you want to sample Donald Ross, then pick <a href="http://www.pineneedles-midpines.com/">Pine Needles</a>, the classic old track that hosted last year’s U.S Women’s Open, or, a discounted Ross off the beaten track, the <a href="http://www.lastminutegolfer.com/Course/Course.asp?CourseID=2084">Southern Pines Golf Club</a>.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>It’s really only the wealthy corporate set who can afford the Pinehurst Resort itself any longer.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I don't think James Tufts would be pleased.</p>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-48358747860875088682007-06-10T09:48:00.000-07:002008-08-02T11:32:50.717-07:00<b style="">THE GENIUS OF MIKE STRANTZ<br /><br /></b><p class="MsoNormal">Is golf course architecture an art form?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Journalist <a href="http://www.isteve.com/golf_art.htm">Steve Sailer</a> makes this case in a smart, provocative recent essay.<span style=""> </span>The designs of Donald Ross, Alastair MacKenzie, and A.W. Tillinghast evince remarkable aesthetics, creativity, and, yes, beauty in their very own different ways.<span style=""> </span>According to Sailer, however, golf’s marriage to the complacent capitalist establishment has led it to be dismissed by the left-leaning, capuccino-sipping, Prada glasses-wearing gatekeepers of the art world establishment.<span style=""> </span>He thinks that golf course architecture should be recognized as one of the great modern mass art forms.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">There’s brilliance indeed to the work of one contemporary designer, Mike Strantz.<span style=""> </span>This maverick architect died at fifty not long ago of throat cancer.<span style=""> </span>Two Strantz masterpieces – Tobacco Road and Tot Hill Farm – lie within an hour of one another here in <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">North Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>. His last design was a makeover of the Monterey Peninsula Golf Club close by <st1:placename st="on">Pebble</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Beach</st1:placetype> in that great golf mecca of sea spray, cypresses and black rock, and the theatrical drama of northern <st1:state st="on">California</st1:state>’s stunning <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Pacific</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Coast</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I can’t say I’m a fan of some of today’s most acclaimed rock star architects. There<span style=""></span><span style="">'s</span> something especially vanilla conservative about Tom Fazio’s work, and his corporatized heritage gestures to Ross and the so-called Golden Age of golf architecture in the 1920s.<span style=""> His Pinehurst #4 and University of North Carolinea Finley Golf are competent, but soulless and ultimately uninteresting. </span>This hasn’t kept several billionaires from forking up Fazio’s multimillion dollar fee for designing their trophy courses like <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Las Vegas</st1:place></st1:city>’s ultraelite Shadow Creek.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Strantz never commanded the top-tier fees of a Dye or Fazio much less designed anywhere so many courses in his abbreviated career.<span style=""> </span>None of his courses have been venues for major tournaments; some critics find them contrived.<span style=""> </span>His is still more a cult following with golf cognoscenti.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Count me a very big fan.<span style=""> </span>To me, Strantz’s genius lies in understanding the compromised, hard-to-categorize essence of that strange invention we call a golf course.<span style=""> </span>A golf course is part nature – grass, trees, rock, sand, and water under the big blue sky. <span style=""> </span>And yet, needless to say, a course is also artificial, an invention of human hands. <span style=""> </span>Building a track takes bulldozing, moving rocks, cutting down trees, turf grass bioengineered to the latest specifications, and computerized drainage systems as intricate as a missile defense system.<span style=""> </span>No course is ever anything like untouched wilderness no matter how many bird sanctuary and wetland preservations stakes the management plants to endow itself with the chic aura of green correctness.<span style=""> </span>But neither should a good golf course be oblivious to the local landscape and ecology in the cookie-cutter gated community style.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>The trick, in other words, is acknowledging and working within the preexisting landscape and yet without trying simply to mimic it.<span style=""> </span>I’m reminded of the famous superscale public art of the Bulgarian artist Christo. <span style=""> </span>When I was a kid in the 1970s in the Bay Area, Christo set up his “Running Fence” in Marin just north of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>.<span style=""> </span>These eighteen foot high panels of white cloth ran some twenty miles before plunging down to the sea.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>The fence called attention to the lines and texture of the golden rolling hills and yet added something new for the two weeks it stayed up.<span style=""> </span>Christo called his work an “obstructive membrana” changing our view of the land. This exercise in public art was also entertaining, a spectacle and a stunt that rivetted attention by its crazy novelty like Christo’s more recent “The Gates” in <st1:state st="on">New York</st1:state>’s <st1:place st="on">Central Park</st1:place>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Mike Strantz may be the Christo of golf course architecture.<span style=""> </span>His Tobacco Road course lies in the site of an old quarry with a broken landscape of sand and red clay, eroded hillocks and gullies, and stunted pines and oaks.<span style=""> </span>It’s a hard-working, semi-rural heart of the <st1:place st="on">Carolinas</st1:place> setting bordered by real tobacco fields and an asphalt-manufacturing plant.<span style=""> </span>Instead of bringing in fill dirt to make yet another pasteurized expanse of manicured green, Strantz takes full advantage of the distinctive setting.<span style=""> </span>His design features enormous, visually captivating waste areas of the red clay and sand interspersed with straggly native grasses and dust-loving flowers like goldenrod and black-eyed susans.<span style=""> </span>The eroded gullies and crumbling sand hills make for spectacular carries and blind shots.<span style=""> </span>And Strantz gives his bunkers irregular shapes, and jagged edges.<span style=""> </span>This departure from the convention of the ellipical, smooth-edged trap accentuates the jagged irregularity of the Sand Hills themselves.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">One thinks of hardscrabble central <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Carolina</st1:place></st1:city> as flat, the monotony of the horizontal under the deadening summer sun.<span style=""> </span>By perching tees and greens on little hills, outcroppings, and gully edges, Strantz calls attention the odd angles of the old quarry landscape, and its ups, downs, and unexpected views and breaks. I wouldn’t have associated anything like beauty with this worn, deforested, and strip-malled heartland of my adopted home state.<span style=""> </span>It’s possible to see it that way through the prism of Strantz’s design.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>There’s also a whimsical, almost Alice in Wonderland feel to the project.<span style=""> </span>Hugely elongated, double and triple-tiered greens are a Strantz trademark.<span style=""> </span>Here I’m reminded of an earlier surrealist master, Salvador Dali, and, in particular, of the odd, extended shapes of the clocks in his pop culture iconic “The Persistance of Memory.”<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>There’s a bit of the miniature golf course to some Tobacco Road greens with balls funneling down slopes towards the hole.<span style=""> </span>And, in fact, the course itself sometimes has a hit-the-ball-through-the-clown’s mouth feel with its blind shots, crazy bounces, and whirlygig turns.<span style=""> </span>It’s part of the track's postmodern novelty to be unafraid of being at once brilliant, visionary, serious, and playful all at the same time.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>The marketing of Tobacco Road trumpets the layout’s difficulty.<span style=""> </span>“<st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Pine</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Valley</st1:placetype></st1:place> on Steroids,” advertises the web-site. <span style=""> </span>The truth is that the course is not very hard at all; it's a modest 6,554 yards from the back tees with big landing areas and receptive greens despite rugged appearances.<span style=""> </span>This course will never host a pro tournament. I hate to think how low a top player could go here.<span style=""> </span>I like the course all the more for the fact that it’s meant for the average player. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>The Tot Hill Farm lies west of the Sand Hills angling up to the <st1:place st="on">Blue Ridge Mountains</st1:place>.<span style=""> </span>It’s a dramatically different setting from the rust red, wispy dry grass, and pale, drought green of Tobacco Road.<span style=""> </span>A palette of deep green forest and grey rock outcrops prevails at Tot Hill Farm in the hilly, Cold Mountain-style terrain bordering the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Uwharrie</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">National Forest</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<span style=""> </span>Here again Strantz shows his sensitivity to the rivetting specificities of geography and ecology.<span style=""> </span>Another architect might have bulldozed away rock outcroppings to smooth out the the course.<span style=""> </span>Strantz incorporates the stone and its myriad fracture shapes into his design with cliffs and boulder formations extruding everywhere, sometimes in unlikely places like on tee boxes or close upon the greens.<span style=""> </span>He also – and in this case almost literally Christo-like – employs running rock fences especially on the back nine.<span style=""> </span>The structures echo and accentuate stone’s prominence in the landscape and the area's farming history with rock fences having been used as far back as colonial times.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Strantz also highlights water's centrality in these wet, green Appalachian foothills.<span style=""> </span>The irregular, meandering mountain creeks figure centrally in his design as they zig and zag along fairways and curl snake-like around many greens.<span style=""> </span>The setting of other greens back into the forest draw our attention as well to the woods and the surrounding forest with their deer, bear, and black snakes.<span style=""> </span>The effect once more is to heighten our awareness of the land’s varied dimensions, in this case the triad of brook, forest, and gray rock.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Once again, too, Strantz has fun along the way. <span style=""> </span>There are the trademark vast, funhouse greens.<span style=""> </span>Other quirky elements include a tiny tee box on the par-3 12<sup>th</sup> hole calling attention to itself – and the boring homogeneity of the usual tee box – by the fact that four players can barely fit on it as it hangs above the creek.<span style=""> </span>Several greens perch precariously on hilltops just as at Tobacco Road; they remind me of those fantastical prints of an imaginary golf course played across waterfalls and gorges to tiny, cliff-hanging greens.<span style=""> </span>Strantz even disrupts the staid formula of four par-3s and four par-5s on an eighteen hole, par 72 course.<span style=""> </span>Instead Tot Hill has five par-3s and five par 5-s, all part of the fun.<span style=""> </span>Don’t we all like par-3s and par-5s more than the middlingness of yet another par-4?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I also liked the democratic pricing and feel of Tot Hill Farm.<span style=""> </span>The green fee is just $40 with cart on a weekday, and the clubhouse a trailer in the best tradition of populist <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">North Carolina</st1:state></st1:place> golf.<span style=""> </span>It’s great golf not just for those with a fat wallets and a corporate expense account. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Go play Tobacco Road and Tot Hill Farm if you get the chance.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">You won’t be disappointed.</p><br />(An expanded version of this post can be found in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times:</span> http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-ncgolf9mar09)Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-69374441192445278292007-03-28T05:21:00.000-07:002011-03-29T07:53:42.535-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">TIGER AND BARACK</span><br /><br />I've been fascinated by the intersecting stories of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, and what they say about America today. The following essay came out last weekend in the Orlando Sentinel, Des Moines Register, and Raleigh News and Observer:<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">MULTIRACIAL MIRRORS</span><br />By Orin Starn<br /><br />Separated at birth?<o:p></o:p> <p class="MsoNormal">The golf icon, Tiger Woods, and the new political headliner, Barack Obama, are a Castor and Pollux for our times.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Those mythical Trojan twins occupy the night sky as the constellation Gemini.<span style=""> </span>Like them, Tiger and Barack burn bright in the postmodern celebrity galaxy. Their intersecting stories give us a compass for charting <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s changing geography of race, culture and identity.<span style=""> </span>Both men position themselves across old black-white lines in a new hybrid model of multiracialism. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the past, any African ancestry made you “black” by the bizarre, ineluctable “one drop of blood rule” governing race in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. But Tiger and Barack have mixed origins, the sons of globalization and migration. Tiger’s black American father met his Thai mother in Vietnam-war-era <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Bangkok</st1:city></st1:place>. He grew up in sunny southern <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place> like so many Asian-American kids.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Barack is yet another midnight’s child of today’s shrinking planet. His white American mother fell in love with his Kenyan father at a Hawaiian university.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Both men have also experienced racism’s ugliness firsthand. Barack did pro bono housing discrimination work in his lawyering days. Schoolyard bullies once tied Tiger to a tree, then danced around shouting the n-word<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tiger has said he’s proud of being black and calls Charlie Sifford, the pioneering first black PGA pro, his “honorary grandfather.” And yet, in a telling measure of changing times, Tiger calls himself “Cablinasian.” He coined the neologism to convey his white, black, Native American and Asian heritage.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The golf champion and his wife, Elin Nordegren, expect their first child this summer.<span style=""> </span>It will be a tableau right from a Zadie Smith novel: the Thai grandmother, the black father, the Swedish mother and their hybrid child.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The more cautious Obama calls himself a “black man of mixed heritage.”<span style=""> </span>He makes the most of it on the campaign trail.<span style=""> </span>In <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Kansas</st1:state></st1:place>, the aspiring president tells heartlanders that he’s one of them. <span style=""> </span>Barack’s white maternal grandparents did indeed come straight out of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Wichita</st1:city></st1:place>.<span style=""> </span>Mixed parentage – or “miscegenation” in that ugly old term – becomes a matter of pride, even a marketable asset.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Far from being exotic exceptions, Tiger and Barack mirror <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> today.<span style=""> </span>Millions of Americans in this age of great migrations -- from Latin America, Africa and <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place> -- <span style=""> </span>have similar mixed origins.<span style=""> </span>What journalist Richard Rodriguez calls <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s “browning” is making us into a more cross-fertilized, diverse nation.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">But acknowledging multiracialism remains a tricky proposition in a society that still wants us to pick sides.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tiger and Barack receive the occasional n-word hate mail. Their desire to maintain multiple allegiances also raises doubts among African Americans. <span style=""> </span>Some black activists, after all, opposed including “multiracial” on the census, fearing it would undermine racial solidarity.<span style=""> </span>One critic goes so far as to dismiss Tiger as a “show mulatto.”<span style=""> </span>And Barack faces questions about whether he’s “truly” African American since his ancestors were not slaves.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Some wariness is in order. <span style=""> </span>We shouldn’t congratulate ourselves prematurely for racial progress. <span style=""></span>Tiger and Barack had stable, middle-class upbringings.<span style=""> </span>It’s the lack of that security that puts so many millions of poor minority kids at a desperate disadvantage. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">And consider the complexion of Barack and Tiger’s professions.<span style=""> </span>Tiger is the lone African American among the 125 golfers on the men’s professional tour (there are none on the women’s circuit).<span style=""> </span>Barack is the only black member of the U.S. Senate.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We have a long iron over water yet to go with race in this society.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>But it's understandable enough that Barack and Tiger want to get beyond the tired, old boundaries of American racial politics.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Aren’t we all more than one thing whether we admit it or not?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">And new DNA research only confirms that race itself is a fiction in a world of impure, mixed bloodlines from history’s beginnings.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The “one drop of blood” rule was an invention of a society that wanted as many people “black” and thus enslaveable as possible.<span style=""> </span>It’s slavery’s unhappy curse that so many of us still want to believe that black and white are somehow culturally and genetically separate categories, a willed denial of America’s overlapping, multidimensional, intertwined realities past and present.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Does the race-bending of Tiger and Barack augur a change in racial thinking at last?<span style=""> </span>Maybe, and yet it’s never been easy to predict anything as grand as <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s future.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tiger will be seeking his third major championship in a row at the upcoming Masters Tournament. That would be the better bet.</p>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-49636859859624932992007-02-01T12:14:00.000-08:002007-07-09T06:18:26.960-07:00<b style="font-family: arial;">GOLF, HYPERGOLF, AND THE DIGITAL AGE<br /><br /></b><b style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></b> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOAIxWFjFidIg-JUzBemNgAP5v1erDtwObTtkUBo6X6j1zPcfza4W6AnneGJ60X8i5B20JzIUAZiA-7YdZFvXVCdmr8FAmbZ7_JX6uis4_ULDmrWSmTAEhpW2vCLgEsKeBcde1Q/s1600-h/globe.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOAIxWFjFidIg-JUzBemNgAP5v1erDtwObTtkUBo6X6j1zPcfza4W6AnneGJ60X8i5B20JzIUAZiA-7YdZFvXVCdmr8FAmbZ7_JX6uis4_ULDmrWSmTAEhpW2vCLgEsKeBcde1Q/s200/globe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026666969772128162" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;">2007 PGA Merchandise Show, Orlando<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT8uVXn1VbmkiMdm1eYXMSLhkInB5gadLUweVM6oc1oX8WrsU4pWF8L-RnGebLfKZgmZal2sNaA9RFo1qboMgKQByy7BXsHMSe8cTsu0cvSBhWAHgdN_QWAZE0WlR8UzcGXRH74Q/s1600-h/Zach.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT8uVXn1VbmkiMdm1eYXMSLhkInB5gadLUweVM6oc1oX8WrsU4pWF8L-RnGebLfKZgmZal2sNaA9RFo1qboMgKQByy7BXsHMSe8cTsu0cvSBhWAHgdN_QWAZE0WlR8UzcGXRH74Q/s200/Zach.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026670427220801474" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;">Zach LaValley with the i-Club<br /></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFoMriTJNeEnl4rcV9GInQ1mWXTuLNHiHEoCszvxlAxWJLuDkiqpXYWKf4AXQwwmabAV6vmGTFwT-v6RcnfwwLIcTBKyf_qupjNqNUN1KPO-4zp6gHXHeylZkoQA60yyZWGoJY_g/s1600-h/ShowPeople.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFoMriTJNeEnl4rcV9GInQ1mWXTuLNHiHEoCszvxlAxWJLuDkiqpXYWKf4AXQwwmabAV6vmGTFwT-v6RcnfwwLIcTBKyf_qupjNqNUN1KPO-4zp6gHXHeylZkoQA60yyZWGoJY_g/s200/ShowPeople.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026671011336353746" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;">Inside the Convention Center<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The PGA Merchandise Show is an enormous golf industry tribal gathering.</span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">More than 45,000 pros, PGA officials, company reps, reporters, and sundry others filled the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Orlando</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Convention Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> this past weekend for the event. So big is the</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Convention Center that it makes an airplane hangar look like a mud hut.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">A large indoor golf range next to the club exhibits took up only a fraction of the space.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The various sections from “Golf Apparel” to the “Golf Travel Pavillion” to the “New Company Discovery Zone” were large enough to be trade shows themselves with dozens of exhibitors.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">A foldout show floor plan resembled that for a mid-sized city with markings for hundreds of vendors, three exhibition stages, and row upon row of booths featuring everything from new, Titanium driver-adapted tees and robotic range ball picker-uppers to the latest digital swing training systems.</span></p> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The show measures the sociology and sensibilities of the golf industry.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Although the thoughtful </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.edwanambwa.com/index.htm">Edward Wanambwa</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > of </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="font-family: arial;">African American Golf Digest</i></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > reports the numbers have grown some, you still see very few black vendors (and by contrast the low-paying security, janitorial, and shoeshine show jobs are filled mostly by African Americans and Latinos in the familiar American crossroads of race and class).</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > The</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > industry’s look remains overwhelmingly white despite a growing Asian and Asian American presence, including the new </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.aagolfmag.com/index.php"><i style="">AAGolf Magazine</i></a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >It’s also mostly a man’s world. With exceptions like appearances by Paula Creamer and the fabulous Nancy Lopez, the bulk of the relatively few women at the show were connected with the apparel industry.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >By contrast, men make up the vast majority of club manufacturer and technology company reps. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >It’s another persisting American patterning of society -- women to the “soft” realms of beauty and fashion; men to the “hard” enterprises of technology and science.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The golf industry ideal of proper masculinity is itself almost charming in its stubborn retro propriety.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >I didn't spot a single wisp of facial hair among the thousands of pros and company reps who congregated in </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:place style="font-family: arial;" st="on"><st1:city st="on">Orlando</st1:city></st1:place></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">A bearded PGA pro is as unthinkable as a clean-shaven imam.</span> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">And long hair? </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Wycliffe Jean forbid. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">In retrospect, Jack Nicklaus was a golf grooming revolutionary letting his hair grow almost to the collar back in the groovy, psychedelic plaid pants 70s.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >As <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> has at least ostensibly embraced the concept of racial equality and women’s rights over the last few decades, various sectors of society have reacted in their own ways. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Golf, needless to say, has never been an avatar of progressive values.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >For better or worse, it has now embraced a kind of “weak multiculturalism.” </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >No legal barriers block people of color from joining the golf world in this post-Civil Rights era; but neither have the PGA or the game’s establishment rushed to be more inclusive, or done much to get the golf industry to look more like America.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >There are less than fifty black American PGA pros in a country with more than two million black golfers.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >A parallel kind of “soft feminism” prevails.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Women are welcome enough in golf and at the show, and yet something of an afterthought.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >As the charismatic, well-spoken <a href="http://suzywhaleygolf.com/">Suzy Whaley</a> pointed out at a show seminar, you find the women’s tees a bumpy mess at too many courses; and, on occasion, male golf pros fall into the same well-intentioned but condescending voice with female students that they would with a kindergartner. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The relatively sparse attendance at Whaley’s show presentation, in spite of her celebrity as the first female PGA tour qualifier, itself indexed that golf remains a game more for him than her.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >But it’s no news flash that golf leans to the right.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Especially for an outsider like me, the show’s single most striking feature was the visibility of new technology.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The futurist Alvin Toffler famously asserts that human history has gone forward in three great stages.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >First came the agricultural revolution, and the accompanying rise of complex, stratified societies like ancient <st1:country-region st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region>, imperial <st1:country-region st="on">China</st1:country-region>, and the Olmecs, Moche, and other pre-Columbian conquest states of the <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Americas</st1:country-region></st1:place>; then followed the 19<sup>th</sup> century industrial revolution with its machines, factories, and massive urbanization.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Since the 1980s, the advent of computers and nanotechnology has been linked to a third sea change in global society, the information age.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">We live now in this new era transformed by the realities of cell phones, the Internet, and the 24/7 global flow of trade and communication.</span> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > Golf is rushing headlong into the brave new digital world.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Whether handheld GPS yardage systems and infrared putt recording devices and the Tracman Doppler radio ball flight tracker, every aspect of the golf industry is being transformed, in some cases revolutionized.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >I stopped by the</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.iclub.net/"> i<b style="">-Club</b></a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > booth.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >There the knowledgeable young sales rep Zach LaValley demonstrated the new technology developed by this company founded by three MIT grads.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The i-Club is an appropriately miniaturized 2.5” long and screws onto the head of putter or club.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The wireless connectivity and special software program provides 3-D swing feedback including clubhead speed, tempo, and angle of attack and direction; it can be used in teaching as well as in club-fitting.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >You can also connect an i-club to the Microsoft “Links2003” video game for a virtual round as Sergio Garcia, Annika Sorenstam, or just yourself on any number of legendary world courses.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >It’s not real outdoors golf, of course; but it’s not fake either insofar as you’re swinging the i-club with your flesh-and-blood body. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >One can only call it “hypergolf.”</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Here one sees the broader trend of a digitally-enabled world of simulation and computerized images that blurs, even shatters, the old metaphysical boundary between the authentic and the fake, nature and technology, and reality and fantasy.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The technology revolution extends almost everywhere.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Consider the golf cart.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">As company rep Phil Davis for <a href="http://www.uplinkgolf.com/">Uplink</a> demonstrated for me, the latest models incorporate every imaginable new high-tech bell-and-whistle.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">This young company has developed GPS-based hardware and software that can be installed on any golf cart, although it has a special partnership with industry giant ClubCar.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">There’s multimedia audio; a full-color, in-cart display of the pin position with exact, to-the-pin yardages; a central control system that allows the pro shop to shut or slow down the cart if it goes into prohibited marshy areas or leaves the property.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">It’s a more sober, golf-style version of what would happen if you took your cart to Pimp My Ride to get it tricked up with all the coolest new computerized gear.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >New technology is even transforming the more staid business of tee times.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The long, penciled list with names crossed out and fill in on a big sheet of smudged white paper was a fixture of every pro shop in older day. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >But, as Robert West of <a href="http://www.teeitup.com/golf/search.wpl">Fore Reservations Inc!</a> explained to me, his company markets course management software that has made pencil and paper obsolete.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >These integrated programs allow the modern-day golf pro to manage financial records, mail marketing, computerized tee times, inventory taking, and bar-coded shop price tags. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >A pro must increasingly also be something of a computer geek in the new golf world.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Less than a third of courses nationwide now allow for self-service Internet reservations.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">One suspects that virtually all will within the next decade.</span> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > Perhaps the loudest technology buzz is around club-fitting.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Custom club Einstein and best-selling author</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > <a href="http://www.twgolftech.com/">Tom Wishon</a> has long pointed out that sticks sold straight from the rack – or just some demo club range experimentation – make a bad fit for the average amateur.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >But only now is club-fitting beginning to take off.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >It’s partly a matter of economics.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >As pro shop sales have stagnated or declined with the flattening numbers of new golfers and tough competition from mall golf superstores, club-fitting offers a way to recover customers, or at the very least stay competitive.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The excellent public </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.hillandalegolf.com/">Hillandale Golf Course</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > close by my house here in </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:place style="font-family: arial;" st="on"><st1:city st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > built its own fitting shack just last year.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">That golfers hear about the latest specialized club-fitting on the Golf Channel and the Internet has also encouraged amateurs to want the service themselves. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Once the golf pro was like the doctor – </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">an almost God-like specialist whose expertise you trusted for lack of real access to information of your own.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Nowadays just as patients do research and sometimes diagnose their own symptoms at medical advice chat rooms and web-sites, so increasing numbers of golfers come to the pro shop knowing – or at least thinking they know – a great deal about the club performance and fitting.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">It’s the age of educated, finicky consumer.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p>Technology is also key to the equation.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >You can do some fitting with cheap,</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >pre-digital tools like a lie board and simply observing ball flight on the driving range.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >But the advent of far more sophisticated technologies – including the i-Club – has revolutionized club-fitting by providing a whole new level of data about spin rate, launch angle, and other variables that no one had even dreamed of measuring a couple of decades ago.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The smart, personable PGA Learning Center Technology and Operations manager, Gene Powell, gave an overview of these technologies to a packed room of pros.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The latest fitting tools include everything from laptop-friendly launch monitors at about $3,000 and indoor simulators in the tens of thousands of dollars like AboutGolf and the P3ProSwing to the even more pricey TaylorMade MATT 3-D Fitting System with multiple cameras tracking both clubhead and ball.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >A show of hands suggests that only a comparatively small percentage of club pros do anything like such high-tech fitting in their shops.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The necessary investment is also daunting.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >It does seems as if the demand for club-fitting will continue to expand, at least among what remains the large numbers of serious American golfers.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family:arial;">I wonder about club-fitting.</span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >It’s not so new in a way: the latest in a longer hobbyist, get-under-the-hood-and-tinker-around brand of American masculinity.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Golfers have always loved gadgets and experimenting with one’s equipment is part of the game’s pleasure. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Less convincing are the claims that club-fitting will keep more golfers from dropping the game in frustration.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >It’s hard to believe that a few strokes here or there will make a real difference.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >And, in fact, the average American golfer is so bad – the mean for men is about 94 – that equipment doesn't matter much one way or the other.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >One has to question especially the “need” for the down-to-the last millimeter nano-fitting provided by expensive new machines. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >After all, a golfer can get clubs with about the right shaft length and stiffness as well as clubface angle with the low-tech fitting tools of a tape measure, lie board and hitting some range balls.</span> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >My guess is that anything more than this has relatively diminishing, marginal returns in saved strokes for all but the elite level golfer.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Does Joe Sixpack need to be fitted with a $60,000 Taylor MATT System?</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >I doubt it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">There’s a larger question of priorities in the whole golf technology revolution.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Why are we spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing new digitalized golf training systems when more than half the globe’s population lives in poverty?</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">How can one justify buying a two thousand dollar set of the latest Srixon clubs when that’s more than a PGA show security guard with a family of four earns in a month?</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What does our obsession with having the latest, most expensive toys say about our values and vision for ourselves and our society?</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The PGA Merchandise Show is something of a temple to guiltless extravagance and consumer capitalism gone wild in a world of haves and have nots. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >But, of course, these are the ravings of a left-leaning, politically correct professor who happens to like golf.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >That bearded 19<sup>th</sup> century prophet,<st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"></st1:place></st1:city> Karl Marx, failed to recognize capitalism’s flexible resilience, not to mention the atrocities that would be committed after his death in socialism’s name.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >But Marx foresaw that capitalism would bring constant technological revolution -- the holy profaned, the shattering of the old in the rush to the new. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >As much as he detested capitalism’s savage inequities, Marx admired the entrepreneurial energy of the business classes, the "most revolutionary" figures in world history for their tireless-profit seeking energy and initiative.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The great social theorist further understood that capitalism would shrink the world itself in "battering down China's Great Wall”<st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"></st1:place></st1:country-region> and traditional societies everywhere to join the world into a single interconnected system, careening headlong towards the future.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The old iconoclast wouldn’t be surprised that the most capitalist of sports, golf, is growing rapidly in the nation of Confucius, Mao, and the gleaming Shanghai skyscrapers.</span><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"></st1:place></st1:city></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>There will be no stopping the golf technology revolution anytime soon.</span></p>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-1167471573747806032006-12-30T01:17:00.000-08:002007-07-09T06:15:34.304-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">GOLF REVOLUTION: A PHOTO ESSAY</span><br /><br />One of the world's fast-growing golf areas is Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Nine courses cluster in the Belek area with its Greek ruins, topsy-turvy resort hotel expansion, and the gorgeous backdrop of the crystal blue sea, arid desert, and the snow-capped Taurus mountains. This has always been an area of abrupt changes with its coexisting and clashing cultures -- the Greeks, the Romans, the early Christian byzantines, the Muslim Ottomans, and the modernizing nationalist Turkey of today. But the new golf tourist boom may be the biggest revolution yet with hotels, roads, and golf courses transforming the area's ecology and society. Now you can visit the breathtaking ancient ruins of the Temple of Apollo or, just down the coast, the new Temple of Faldo, the famous British champion's multimillion dollar Cornelia Golf Course winding its lush green way through the sea pines. As it always does, golf links into social and political controversies here. Turkey's Mediterranean global golf tourism revolution has both its unconditional business boosters and vigorous activist opponents.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/280105/000_0668.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/200/765712/000_0668.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Golf Gateway, Kadriye<br /><br />A personable young British pro, <a href="http://www.solutionsgolf.net/">Ry</a><a href="http://www.solutionsgolf.net/">an Parfett</a>, runs an instructional center in Kadriye with the latest computer simulation equipment. Expatriate golf enthusiasts Michael and Loy de la Pena have formed the <a href="http://www.arenanewsturkey.com/">Kadriye Belek Golf Society</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/379537/LetooniaGolf.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/200/128930/LetooniaGolf.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Letoonia Golf Resort, Belek<br /><br />A decade ago, this part of Turkey's Mediterranean coast was mostly village farmland. Now it has wall-to-wall resort hotels like Letoonia. These Turkish riviera resort enclaves cater mostly to northern European tourists; they offer all-inclusive packages as a cheaper alternative than Spain and Italy to sun-seeking vacationers. The resorts themselves are fenced off from the rest of Turkey with cable tv, elaborate tropical-style swimming pools, and English and European-language speaking staff. Many visitors never leave the grounds during their Turkish stay.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/3394/000_0667.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/200/180173/000_0667.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Ad for golf villas, Belek<br /><br />Retirees, mostly northern European snowbirds fleeing the winter cold, have been moving to the Turkish riviera. Recent changes to Turkish law make it legal now for foreigners to buy property.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/457446/AliBey.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/200/410809/AliBey.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Ali Şahin, Golf Director, <a href="http://www.corneliaresort.com/">Cornelia Faldo Golf Course</a><br /><br />That most tourists come from Britain, Germany, and Sweden means that golf investors on the Turkish riviera have sought out European golf stars to "brand" their courses. Faldo's Cornelia course, Turkey's best, opened this year. A Colin Montgomerie "signature" course will be completed nearby in 2007.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/485695/Sinkhole.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/200/520445/Sinkhole.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Construction for a new Belek course<br /><br />The unchecked pace of golf course and resort expansion has raised concerns. There are environmental questions about golf's appropiateness in this arid area with limited water and delicate Mediterranean ecology. No real zoning controls have limited the massive resort hotel development. Although construction and resort workers make Turkish minimum wage with basic benefits, a huge gap also exists between the working-class, mostly Muslim local workers and and the well-heeled vacationing Europeans who have made Turkey's Mediterranean into such a popular destination. That ugly barbed wire fences with guard box entries surround area golf courses heightens the controlled enclave feeling of the new tourist economy.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/299096/Sorgun.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/200/188615/Sorgun.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Sorgun Forest<br /><br />This last surviving patch of seaside old growth forest has become a controversial flashpoint. When plans were announced to build a golf course in the forest, locals mobilized a vigorous, hard-fought campaign to stop the project. <a href="http://www.sorgun.org/">Their coalition</a> included restaurant and cafe owners in the nearby town of Side, expatriate environmentalists, and both Turkish and international organizations. The Side activists forced cancellation of the proposed course thus saving this lovely forest long a local favorite for birdwatchers, horseback riders, Sunday picnikers.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/713964/Zeynep.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/200/13045/Zeynep.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Zeynep and Mehmet Gülcü<br /><br />This Side couple helped to spearhead the successful campaign to save the Sorgun forest from golf course development. They run the popular Mehmet's Bar with its lovely Mediterranean view in the small tourist town of Side. Another local activist, Harun Friese, runs the wonderful <a href="http://www.appollonik.com/"></a><a href="http://www.apollonik.com/">Apollonik Cafe</a> right on Side's harbor next to the Temple of Apollo.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/424250/000_0654.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/320/604488/000_0654.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Silence Beach Hotel, Side<br /><br />Environmentalists could not block this cookie-cutter resort hotel at the Sorgun forest's edge. In the foreground is the last small public beach in this area that has seen the privatization of most coastline for tourist resorts.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/796554/000_0645.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/200/20328/000_0645.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Temple of Apollo, SideOrin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34984860.post-1164623240624559292006-11-27T01:54:00.000-08:002006-11-27T10:49:20.340-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/830703/TurkishIceCream.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/320/825792/TurkishIceCream.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"Golf" Ice Cream, Turkey<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/449729/web_030728-N-0000X-001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/320/206712/web_030728-N-0000X-001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Bob Hope entertaining sailors<br />off Vietnam<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/1600/980192/000_0524.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6567/3883/320/160990/000_0524.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Klassis Golf Club, Turkey<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />GOLF AND GLOBALIZATION</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:14;" >What does golf tell us about globalization?<o:p><br /></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;">The game has been something of an American export in the last decades.<span style=""> </span>This began in the Cold War when golf was converted into a strong symbol of the supposed superiority of American capitalism and democracy.<span style=""> </span>If the Communist Russians lived in a dreary black-and-white limbo of cheap vodka, bad borscht and gray Stalinist high rises, we capitalists in the United States cavorted in a shiny Technicolor wonderland of<span style=""> </span>Florida and Arizona golf vacations with blue skies, sparkling white sand, cute electric golf carts, white belts and blue and green polyester plaid pants, and tropical cocktails with little paper umbrellas at the 19<sup>th</sup> hole. Or so the image-making went.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;">So many American presidents being golfers has punctuated the connection between the game and the ideology of global American destiny and power.<span style=""> </span>In his goodwill tours entertaining sailors off the coast of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region>, comedian Bob Hope hit golf balls from an aircraft carrier deck, the game pushed strangely forward at a bloody frontier of American empire.<span style=""> </span>Along with planting the Stars and Stripes and reading from Genesis, astronaut<span style=""> </span>Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin hit a golf shot on the moon.<span style=""> </span>That memorable moment linked the iconography of nationalism and Christianity with the wacky, boys-will-be-boys American boy fun of hitting a six-iron in zero gravity.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;">And Tiger Woods, of course, is a child of the Cold War and <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s global entanglements.<span style=""> </span>His Green Beret father Earl never would have met his Thai mother Tida if he hadn’t been sent to fight Communism in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style=""> </span>The young couple nicknamed their child “Tiger” after a Vietnamese buddy of Earl’s who died in a <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Hanoi</st1:place></st1:city> prison camp.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:14;" >Lately, there’s been increasing talk about golf’s globalization.<span style=""> </span>The PGA would certainly like to have us believe that the sport is taking the world by storm – with the accompanying fortune in yen, yuan, and Euros to be made from “worldwiding” its product.<span style=""> </span>One golf world, linked by the miracle of television and creating vast new markets for balls, clubs, cable channels, licensing rights, and the rest.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>It’s a dream being pursued by Tim Finchem and vigorous corporate golf interests from course architects to equipment makers and resort companies.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:14;" >But like globalization itself, the realities of golf’s spread are strange, uneven, and not always according to plan.<span style=""> </span>I’m teaching this fall in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style=""> </span>It’s a country of almost one hundred million people with a big, expanding economy and famously strategic location at Europe and <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place>’s crossroads.<span style=""> </span>You’d think that golf would be taking off here. The <a href="http://www.tgf.org.tr/main.asp">Turkish Golf Federation</a> has energetically promoted the game, including school outreach that provided the young core of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s recent European Club championship-winning team.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.7pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;">And the requisite originary nationalist myth is even in place. <span style=""> </span>According to this story, modern <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s founder, Mustafa Kemal, once visited <span style=""> </span>the country’s first golf course, the Istanbul Golf Club, and was served coffee and cognac there by the course manager’s son.</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="'mso-element:field-begin'"></span> SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1</span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="'mso-element:field-end'"></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14;"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>The great man supposedly</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14;"> </span><span style="font-size:14;">instructed the boy “to study and learn golf for the benefit of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>.”<span style=""> </span>Mustafa Kemal died in 1938, but the cult of personality to Ataturk (“The Father of the Turks”), as he became known, must be the largest to any single world leader, dead or alive; it outstrips the lionization of Fidel Castro in Cuba or Kim Jong Il in North Korea, more like the nationalist necrophilia of Lenin’s Tomb or the older monumentalization of Egyptian Pharoahs and Roman Emperors. <span style=""> </span>Ataturk’s picture is literally everywhere in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style=""> </span>His real or imagined endorsement of golf <span style=""> </span>provides necessary official certification in this country that takes its nationalism and great nationalist hero with absolute unironic seriousness. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.7pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;">But <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region> still has only about three thousand golfers.<span style=""> </span>And only about ten courses.<span style=""> </span>Ambitious plans to expand that number to a hundred have run into opposition.<span style=""> </span>Recently, an environmentalist coalition called the <a href="http://www.sorgun.org/indexing.php">Sorgun Platform</a> forced the cancellation of a planned course that would have required cutting down old-growth forest along <st1:country-region st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>’s <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Mediterranean</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Coast</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<span style=""> </span>They weren’t swayed by the Turkish Minister of Tourism’s insistence that the planned course would actually protect forest by preventing forest fires.<span style=""> </span>In that case, why not cut down all <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s trees, the Sorgun activists sarcastically suggested? <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:14;" >Here golf is also invisible on that ubiquitous postmodern Delphic oracle, television.<span style=""> </span>The NBA has done wonders in forcing its way onto Turkish screens.<span style=""> </span>Several channels carry both this season’s contests and grainy old vintage match-ups.<span style=""> </span>Many Turks recognize LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and other NBA stars. Tiger Woods? <span style=""> </span>He’s conspicuous by his invisibility on television and other Turkish media.<span style=""> </span>Tiger might be an obscure bench-warmer for the Sacramento Kings for all that Turks know or care about him.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.7pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;">One of the most popular Turkish ice cream brands is called “Golf.”<span style=""> </span>But the name appears to be just an empty marker of the modern, the cosmopolitan, and the Western – like the knock-off t-shirts you see here with stray nonsensical English words like “Force,” “Foxy” <span style=""> </span>or “Wavelength.”<span style=""> </span>I suspect many locals buying popsicles don’t know, or care, what “Golf” means.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.7pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p>Why hasn’t golf taken hold here?<span style=""> </span>Economics is one reason.<span style=""> </span>Unlike soccer, basketball, or baseball, golf is not played by poor people anywhere in the world.<span style=""> </span>The cost – green fees and equipment, even in their cheapest versions – prevents it.<span style=""> </span>And thus the pattern to golf globalization; the sport has spread in countries with robust, developed economies of the northern hemisphere.<span style=""> </span>That includes Asian nations like <st1:country-region st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region st="on">South Korea</st1:country-region> as well as European ones like <st1:country-region st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region st="on">England</st1:country-region> together, of course, with the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. You must have big, relatively affluent middle class for golf to take hold. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.7pt;font-family:arial;"><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span style="font-size:14;">Turkey</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:14;">’s middle-class is growing, and yet it’s still a poor country relative to global capitalism’s success stories.<span style=""> </span>And other obstacles exist – a lack of space for courses in vastly overcrowded <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city>; the absence of a charismatic Turkish player to spark interest; the relative segregation of gender roles that tends to discourage female sports participation.<span style=""> </span>As in, say, <st1:country-region st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region> or <st1:country-region st="on">Peru</st1:country-region>, golf in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region> is an elite enclave sport played on fenced in courses designed to keep out the poor and the lower classes.<span style=""> </span>Here the rich and the visiting foreign businessmen live in their own partitioned society of fancy sedans and SUVs, credit cards and jet travel, and the luxury of being waited on by others<span style=""> </span>The world is not flat contrary to what any simple celebration of globalization would have us believe.<span style=""> </span>And golf exemplifies division, exclusion and the ugly contrasts between the haves and have nots so much a part of globalization’s advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.7pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;">I visited the Klassis Country Club outside <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city> a few weeks ago.<span style=""> </span>It’s a quite beautiful, hilly course designed partly by Tony Jacklin; it looked especially striking with the frost and gold and brown leaves that reminded me of the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s Appenines in the fall.<span style=""> </span>But a round here and the required cart cost the equivalent of well over one hundred dollars, a week’s salary for the average Turk.<span style=""> </span>There was only a group of Japanese businessmen out golfing on this cold November day; a few Bulgarians come down as the border is close and Bulgaria has no good course; and Swedes make up the largest percentage of the club’s foreign golf tourists (and golf’s rise in Sweden has been remarkable to the point that some 900,000 people there, a tenth of the population, play the game).<span style=""> </span>These visitors and some wealthy Turks comprise the Klassis clientele.<span style=""> </span>The course is surrounded by a barbed wire fence to keep out local villagers who graze their sheep nearby. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.7pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;">Maybe golf will eventually break through in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style=""> </span>But for now the action is elsewhere – and perhaps most intriguingly in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Both Bill Clinton and Tiger Woods have made recent golf-promoting visits there with Tiger playing in the Shanghai Open.<span style=""> </span>The image of golf as linked to globalization from above, the excesses of savage capitalism, and the decadent West has been an obstacle to expansion in the world’s most populous country.<span style=""> </span><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Peking</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> just cancelled plans to build a practice putting green in response to</span><span style="font-size:14;"> complaints that a rich man’s sport has no place in a country with so much poverty.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.7pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p>But, as <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s professional classes grow, it seems inevitable that golf will as well, and golf and capitalist expansion going hand-in-hand as they always have.<span style=""> </span><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.7pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;">A day after the news from <st1:placename st="on">Peking</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype>, another newspaper reported that <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Xiamen</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> just made golf a required class for economics and computer software majors.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.7pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:14;"><o:p></o:p>Playing the game, a professor there said, would “improve their job prospects.”<span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Orin Starnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10914472699196700827noreply@blogger.com1