[Is Asians are not into golf that is their business. It is racist to try to force our culture onto people who have voted with their feet to stay away from golf courses, can't we just leave Asians alone to do what they wish?-ed]
Britain’s leading golf official has urged promoters of the sport to find more effective ways of attracting more people from ethnic minorities to the sport.
Peter Dawson, chief executive of the St Andrews-based Royal and Ancient Golf Club, argues that this is one of the sport’s greatest challenges.
Mr Dawson’s comments will be aired in a documentary on Five Live’s Sport on Five tonight. The programme questions whether golf is making the most of having Tiger Woods, a man with African, American and Asian origins, at the top of the game, and finds that while more members of ethnic minorities are taking up the game, few want to join traditional golf clubs.
Mr Dawson says: “This is the challenge for golf; to be more welcoming to these groups, and it is certainly an area where the game could grow.”
Jaz Athwal, chairman of the UK Asian Open Golf Society, said of many of Britain’s private golf clubs: “I don’t know what they’re scared of. We pay full green fees and everything. I don’t know if they think we’re going to run off with the holes or there’ll be a corner shop on every tee.”
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1 omasbaer // Mar 25, 2006 at 3:44 pm
One of the reasons I golf is that I do not see any black people !So more expensive the golf course so better it is.
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