Tom Doak’s Pacific Dunes 11th hole at the Bandon Dunes resort in Bandon, Oregon
From my new column in Taki’s Magazine about the state of golf in the 2020s based on my eight rounds in four days at Bandon Dunes in Oregon:
by Steve Sailer
May 24, 2023The 2020s have been a lousy decade in many ways. For example, tomorrow is the third anniversary of the “racial reckoning”: How’s that working out anyway? But at least the Covid years have been good for the game of golf, a sociable outdoor sport that had been in a recession since the turn of the millennium. Last year, 26 million Americans played a little over half a billion rounds of golf, with the number of rounds up 13 percent from the average during 2015–2019.
Read the whole thing there.
