Golf is a premium sport that is popularly considered a ‘rich man’s sport’, pertaining to the cost of playing golf. First of all, the gold equipment including the golf clubs, a golf bag, gloves, range finder, balls, and other assorted tools. or the sticks are very expensive. Then there’s the membership fee that you’d have to pay for playing in any particular golf course. The fee of golf courses varies from one course to another and can be around $500.
2. • Golf is a premium sport that is popularly considered a
‘rich man’s sport’, pertaining to the cost of playing golf.
• First of all, the gold equipment including the golf clubs,
a golf bag, gloves, range finder, balls, and other
assorted tools. or the sticks are very expensive.
• Then there’s the membership fee that you’d have to
pay for playing in any particular golf course. The fee of
golf courses varies from one course to another and can
be around $500.
3. • With advanced technology coming up with AR and
VR, golf can be played at home too, a
portable golf simulator makes it possible.
• While it is much cheaper to buy a portable golf
simulator and play on it, it is still costly.
• However, the rich don’t play golf just because it is
costly, there are many other reasons too.
• Here are a few reason why rich people play golf:
5. 1. The best days are yet to come.
• Not many rich people are found to be in the best body
shape or in physical prime.
• And fortunately for them, more than a test of their
physical fitness, the game of golf offers a test of their
skills and fee.
• This makes it possible for them to achieve their
personal best when they reach their 50s and 60s and
beyond.
6. 2. The entry-barrier is high.
•When it comes to golf, the competitive advantages are
experience and technique, more than agility, speed and
fitness—these are the things that the rich people can
easily get.
•And if you have paid for equipment, lessons and golf
training, and the several rounds on the golf course,
then an amateur athletic challenger who has less
experience than you will be unlikely to beat you at it.
7. 3. It’s safe.
• Unlike the sports of skiing and biking (the other sports
that the rich people engage in), the chances or risks
of getting injured during a round of golf is very low.
• For more safety, one can choose to play miniature
golf Atlanta, which is fun and more easily playable
too.
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9. 4. Your competition is against yourself.
• The rich people often tend to be very competitive,
and hate losing.
• With golf, the advantage is that your competition is
against yourself, as no one else is directly attempting
or trying to prevent the other from doing what the
other wants to do.
• Also, a round of golf with family can bring along fun
outdoor games for kids too.
10. 5. Occasional great shots.
• An average person can never dunk a basketball or
throw a 100 miles/hour fastball, but a normal man in
his 60s may just as well play a great shot and make
hole in one shot that he can later boast about in
front of his colleagues and friends.
11. 6. Legitimacy.
• The rich people care about and want to associate
themselves with things that are legitimate and high-
quality, and don’t really care about acing in
something that’s not very relevant.
• A sport that is sponsored by Rolex, covered on the
front page of ESPN, involves the leading athletic
brands—Adidas and Nike, and features several
multi-million worth athletes is a legitimate sport.