On Chavez’s live television show, he spoke negatively of golf, saying I respect all sports,” said Chavez. ”But there are sports and there are sports. Do you mean to tell me this is a people’s sport?” He also pointed to the use of golf carts as proof of how lazy golfers are. I’m not going to waste my time writing to contest the statements of a madman, but it makes you wonder what his angle is. Are golf courses really a perceived threat to his “dictatorship?” At the location of one of the proposed closures, officials plan to use the space for low income housing or to create a campus for Chavez’s Bolivarian University. However, I doubt that is the primary motivation for attacking golf.
Thoughts?