Weird Golf Story Of The Week

A dog named Deuce apparently has been awarded a lifetime membership in a South Wales golf club for his uncanny ability to find lost balls.

Given the burgeoning Chinese interest in golf, Scottish authorities have begun an effort to attract the Chi-Coms to the home of golf.

In the article, Scottish First Minister Jack McConnell said

he admired China’s growing love of golf, but said “a golfer who never plays in Scotland is a golfer unfulfilled”.

Chinese tourism could be worth about £70m to Scotland over the next four years, it has been estimated. Restrictions on Chinese tourists travelling to the UK were removed last year.

The interest of the Chinese in golf only goes as far as the evil old men who run that totalitarian police state have an interest. They have, in recent years, sponsored several high stakes tournaments and are building numerous luxury resort courses. Given that the majority of the country lives in grinding poverty, it seems that they must have better things to do with their money. I find it even more ironic that in the “people’s paradise”, they have decided to take up the sport of the Captains and the Kings.

In 1949, Mao Tse-tung took time out from murdering his own people to order that all of the country’s golf courses be razed to “banish the millionaire’s game.” The bloodthirsty old tyrant is probably spinning in his grave right now.

Even more interesting: the Chinese sports ministry recently announced that it was starting a drive to catapult Chinese athletes into the top of the golfing world. It’ll surely be an effort like they’ve put forth to get to the top of the Olympic games. The government will identify talent early, take them away from their parents and put them up in government dormitories where they will live, breathe and eat golf.

Hmm. It actually doesn’t sound all that bad.

Of course, they may just be trying to find a place to dump all of those counterfeit clubs that they have been producing. I’ve also read that they have exported millons of fake top-of-the-line golf balls, too. (How can you tell if you have a Chinese Communist knock off ball? It goes left.)

However, given that the Chinese claim to have invented golf themselves, perhaps it is they that should be trying to attact the Scots.

Readers of this blog have been following the strangest golf story since King James banned the sport because his yeomen were practicing at the links instead of the archery range: the ongoing scandal of the golf playing Korean Prime Minister ( link and link ).

Now, it seems that the Korean president has accepted the resignation of his Prime Minister in the golf scandal.

Weird Golf Story of The Week:

Portland International Airport was partly evacuated and shut down for two and a half hours when a suspicious looking device was detected by airport security.

The device turned out to be a Nike golf ball tracking device with a computer and microwave system. The device was being carried by a Nike employee to Dallas for use in testing balls.

Nike apologized, and the employee won’t face any charges.

Weird Golf Story of The (Last) Week Continues:

As reported last week, South Korean Prime Minister Lee Hae-Chan faces mounting public criticism for playing golf while the country has faced several “crises.”

Now, a poll indicates that 52.8% of the country wants him to resign

It’s clear that the US doesn’t have a monopoly on stupid politics.