{"id":2018,"date":"2015-04-13T11:42:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:01","slug":"my-story-for-cnn-money-china-declares-war-on-forbidden-game-of-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/my-story-for-cnn-money-china-declares-war-on-forbidden-game-of-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"My story for CNN Money: China declares war on ‘forbidden game’ of golf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are no Chinese golfers participating in The Masters this week, and perhaps that is fitting. It’s already been a rough spring for “the rich man’s game” in China.
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\nOn March 30, Chinese authorities announced the closure of 66 “illegal” golf courses — roughly 10% of all courses in the country — in an apparent attempt to start enforcing a long-ignored ban on golf-related construction.
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\nThe following day, the Commerce Ministry announced that one of its senior officials was under investigation for “participating in a company’s golf event,” thus putting him on the wrong side of President Xi Jinping’s “eight rules” against extravagance among government officials.
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\nIn Xi’s China, being put “under investigation” is tantamount to being found guilty. Since embarking on his seemingly ceaseless anti-corruption campaign more than two years ago, hundreds of thousands of officials at all levels of government have been put in the crosshairs.
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\nThe biggest names caught in the web are called “tigers.” That’s not a golf reference, but China’s current crackdown on the sport does show how pervasive and unpredictable Xi’s crusade has become.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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