golf digest – The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream

A class you don’t want to skip: School makes golf a mandatory course

Joel Beall writes in Golf Digest: Given the school’s location, the move may raise an eyebrow. Communist China has held an adversarial relationship with golf; just last fall, the country banned party members from joining clubs. This icy rapport stems from the party’s view of golf …

Cliff Schrock writes: The book shows how parallels between golf in China and the U.S. can be startling, especially with the pursuit of land, environmental bickering, the mix of rich/poor with both players and workers, the need for irrigation and watering, and the contradictions between …

Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama cruised to a win in the second Asian Amateur Championship, earning a berth in the 2011 Masters.

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A class you don’t want to skip: School makes golf a mandatory course

Golf Digest calls Forbidden Game ‘an intriguing study’ and ‘an absorbing read’

My coverage of the Asian Amateur Championship for Golf Digest