My buddy is a teacher in a poor district. He joins a golf league every year. Plays weekly at least when the weather is decent. My uncle plays weekly. Several guys on my softball team play. Not one of them has a million dollars. I play every few years or so. With no equipment meant it runs me $30 to $50 depending on where it is. Would be less if I owned clubs, or had a membership… haven’t played since the pandemic, so I am sure the price has increased, but plenty of people spend more on drinks for one weekend.
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afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months agoI don’t know a single regular person who can afford to spend 9 hours on a weekend golfing. The only people I know who can afford that are people who inherited millions of dollars.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cool story bro
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 months ago
You don’t need to be a millionaire or need 9 hours to play golf. I used to have a game on an evening with my dad in the week, we were not at all wealthy.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Must be an incredible amazing coincidence that literally everyone I know who plays the game inherited piles of money. And all those greens being maintained and watered and cared for cost nothing so it’s super cheap to play.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Just because you know some millionaires who play golf doesn’t mean that everyone who plays golf is a millionaire. You can play for a couple of hours for cheap on a local 9 hole course.