The effort to signal a more welcoming environment is increasingly, if slowly, evident in golf too.
Golf also has diversity not so readily apparent to the naked eye.ĭuring Pride Month, it seems as though every company and industry in the land is displaying rainbow colors, marketing that one suspects is often motivated as much by sales as solidarity. A visit to most golf facilities will reveal people separated by race, gender and umpteen other differences but united by a passion for the game. The familiar rap against golf is that expressions of diversity in our game are limited to wearing unconventional shades of khaki, that it’s a buttoned-up, hidebound world that stubbornly remains the preserve of white, male, affluent, conservative, Christian, heterosexual, country club Republicans with woeful fashion sense.Īdmittedly, you can throw a pebble on the PGA Tour and hit someone who ticks all of those boxes - and you wouldn’t have to aim carefully - but like all stereotypes it fails to fully reflect a more nuanced reality.
