ESPN.com’s package on golf in China
You just might recognize the author
ESPN.com, the internet’s sports website of record, is running two stories I wrote about golf in China:
• Golf in China grows bigger by the day
• Chinese events bring interesting questions
At the time of this posting, the package was ESPN.com’s featured story on the site’s main page. But that changes pretty often, so here is a screen shot. It’s also the lead story on ESPN.com’s golf page (screen shot).
And yes, I think this is all pretty cool. It’s not too often you get to write for one of your favorite websites. (Even if they do initially spell your name wrong.)
And to all you sports fans who have arrived here via ESPN.com, here are links to some past stories of mine that will help you waste even more time at the office:
Golf
- Els to fans: Put your phones on vibrate
- China’s top golfer demands more domestic support
- Luxury cars, pro golfers and dirty underwear
Baseball
- MLB invests in China’s baseball growth
- In search of baseball’s Yao Ming
- Take me out to the bangqiu bisai
Basketball
Soccer
Football
- Go ON THE LINE with Todd McClure. Each week during the 2001 NFL season, I wrote a behind-the-scenes look at the life of the Atlanta Falcons’ starting center.
Everything else
- Here is a complete archive of my Sporting Life columns from my four years spent in the Bible Belt as a Plimptonian participatory journalist. I tried everything from sky diving to bull riding to ice climbing to nude water volleyball. I even fished for giant catfish with my bare hands. And then I moved to China.
2 Comments
3 articles on golf in China and only one sentence that indirectly mentions the problems created by developing golf as a sport in China?
Is it more important to discuss China as the next great market for golf to be exploited, finding the next “Tiger Woods” or the “Yao Ming” of golf?
What about a few lines on the inefficient allocation of economic and natural resources that the construction of golf courses generate—the brazen land grabs by corrupt government officials and kicking peasants off their land in the process, the exacerbation of water shortages, particularly in northern China, to name a few?
LF,
if you start getting into all of those issues, then you’re actually talking about all of china’s too-rapid urban development, and all of the problems attached to china’s poorly planned development that doesn’t take the time to weigh out affects against the environment or even china’s people.
and then, i bet ESPN wouldn’t be too interested in the story anymore, would they?
there’s a time and a place for everything.