Third-World Golf
Golf is a pastime that is traditionally associated with the wealthy and powerful, sometimes used as a metaphor for that. This association is not abstract: shelling out money for equipment and greens fees adds up. It's an interesting upset of that to find a golf subculture in the middle of some of the poorer cities in the world, hitting golf balls off of rooftops at abandoned buildings with precisely placed holes along an improvised course. It works a little like frisbee golf borrowed back to golf equipment.
While urban golf is not limited to poor areas, golfers elsewhere have had more difficulty finding suitable courses. Click the picture above to see more pictures from a series by Polish photojournalist Tomasz Gudzowaty.
No comments:
Post a Comment