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Race Matters
Mar. 31st, 2012 10:48 pmI've been watching the LPGA Kraft Nabisco. I've also been reading a lot of the articles that are being pumped out after each round. One of the really interesting parts of this has been seeing and hearing how skewed to a white/American market the presentation of the game is.
The Kraft Nabisco is one of the few Majors (or perhaps the only?) played on the same course every year, up in the desert Palm Springs on the Dinah Shore course (where, on the same weekend, the other Dinah Shore concurrently takes place just a hop away). It's an American tournament. And so perhaps it's understandable that the network coverage will focus on American players even if they're not on top of the leaderboard. But what surprised me is this continual lament from commentators and journalists and golf aficianados writing in English that there isn't a strong American player and that there really needs to be one if there's going to be any strong appeal of the sport. That the leaderboard at one point being filled with Asians--world ranked no. 1 Yani Tseng of Taiwan, a host of Korean players, and perhaps Ai Miyazato of Japan at that point--was something that was kind of bad. As if no one would care about the tournament if the final were a slug fest between the Asians.
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The Kraft Nabisco is one of the few Majors (or perhaps the only?) played on the same course every year, up in the desert Palm Springs on the Dinah Shore course (where, on the same weekend, the other Dinah Shore concurrently takes place just a hop away). It's an American tournament. And so perhaps it's understandable that the network coverage will focus on American players even if they're not on top of the leaderboard. But what surprised me is this continual lament from commentators and journalists and golf aficianados writing in English that there isn't a strong American player and that there really needs to be one if there's going to be any strong appeal of the sport. That the leaderboard at one point being filled with Asians--world ranked no. 1 Yani Tseng of Taiwan, a host of Korean players, and perhaps Ai Miyazato of Japan at that point--was something that was kind of bad. As if no one would care about the tournament if the final were a slug fest between the Asians.
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