Slowly, golf’s exclusionary walls coming down

Discrimination of any kind will only serve to hinder and hurt the potential growth of the game of golf, and it’s related industries. With that in mind it’s great to read an article such as this, which makes the case that golf is indeed becoming far more inclusive than it has been. To quote:

Slowly but inevitably, the barriers of race and gender with which golf has long been associated are coming down.

Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh, the game’s two leading players, are non-white, and their achievements have done much to spread golf to an audience far beyond its traditional image of male, white and middle-class.

Last week’s landmark decision by the male-only Royal and Ancient Golf Club to allow women to enter the 2006 British Open brings the tournament in line with the other three majors, which have no policy barring women.

Source: MSNBC.com

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