Golf's Digital Divide

theodp writes "Are $50,000 simulators and $4,500 sensor vests driving a wedge between golf's haves and have-nots? That's the question posed by the WSJ, who reports that a new generation of expensive high-tech tools is stoking a costly arms race among golfers looking for an edge in a sport that already has an elitist reputation."

And lo, the day has come....

[Marko DeBeeste]

CyberSteroids for the men with little balls.

No way

[MyLongNickName]

You mean rich folks have an advantage? Damn. ll my life, there has been equality between the haves and the have nots. Especially in golf. Now, that is falling down like a house of cards.

My life is over. Anyone want my user id before I go to end it all?

I am shocked...

[ScaryMonkey]

SHOCKED to hear that technology might be introducing the taint of elitism into the great Everyman's Sport that is golf.

Re:This Just In!

[Mathonwy]

The problem with golf is that it is too subtle about being a "rich people game".

Thus, I propose a NEW sport, which I humbly name "money-ball".

The way it works is, you have a big bonfire. Throwing $20 into the bonfire gives you one point. The game continues until one side forfeits. Whoever has the most points at the end wins!

Fun for hours!

New Poll

[sharkey]

Who has the biggest snobs?

• Linux
• Apple
• Golf
• CowboyNeal

What's new?

[labratuk]

Are $50,000 simulators and $4,500 sensor vests driving a wedge between golf's haves and have-nots?

I thought the whole point of golf was to drive a wedge between the haves and have nots.

Cinderella story.....

[ralfg33k]

But does that simulator include using flowers for driving practice? Oh, I think not.

Besides, most of the folks I know golf because it's a good excuse to swill something from the beverage cart, enjoy being outside instead of in their offices/cubicles, and fire off jokes that would otherwise score them a 30 minute meeting with their manager and an HR rep.

Re:No way

[TubeSteak]

With a name like "Rectal Prolapse" we don't need to see your UID to know that you're from a bygone era where goatse pics & links flourished in the forum that is /.

Wha?

[gearmonger]

What is this 'golf' of which you speak?

Or did you mean "Gorf"?

Re:What's new?

[killjoe]

"I thought the whole point of golf was to drive a wedge between the haves and have nots."

No that's the whole point of the wall street journal.

redneck equivalent

[Anonymous Coward]

Here in bubbaland, they don't drop ridiculous sums of money on a sissy game like golf, we have BASSBOATS that cost more than most peoples houses and will outrun most coast guard cutters because of the QUAD mercurys on them. Them dang fish are FAST, doncha know, got to "git out there" quick like, they might disappear on ya! Then you need a fish finder sonar your cousin "borrowed" from the navy during his stint, then a tacklebox with 10 grand of basically the same looking lures that you attach plastic worm crankbait to.

Now that is a MANLY MAN sport. Oh ya, you need a new ford extravagant pickup to haul the boat...another 100 grand or so.. Then, you just catch the bass and let them go! You stop and buy hamburgers in a sack on the way home, but TRIPLE POUNDERS with cheese and bacon from all the calories exerted taking your credit cards in and out of your wallet.

snobs, eh, pikers!

I just hope the same never happens to...

[Anonymous Coward]

...other poor people's sports, such as yachting and skiing.

arrggghhg the sun!!!

[tlynch001]

A game that involves sunlight and walking? Like anyone here would play that!