The claim that golf is an elite sport is ridiculous. Played by 1.5 million Australians, it is among our most democratic and egalitarian sports.
Listen to some people and you’d imagine that golf is a game exclusively for millionaires, played on perfectly manicured fairways while the public look on forlornly through locked gates.
A few months later, I took the next step and played at Moore Park, the busiest public course in Australia. Founded in 1913, it currently attracts 500,000 visitors each year. I blame governments at all levels for manufacturing this crisis. If politicians are crying out for new open spaces to meet the population boom in the Green Square area, then quite frankly it is their own fault. Why was that open space not mandated in the planning controls years ago? By the way, I note that Moore became Lord Mayor 20 years ago and first entered state parliament in 1988.
A better solution to the problem can be found at the home of golf, the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland, where no golf is played every Sunday. The course becomes a vast public park. This is not a charming quirk of history. The golf course belongs to the town and its inhabitants. So, they get to use it as they please once a week.In the same way, Sydney’s open spaces belong to all of us.
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