Every year about this time, the Buffalo District Golf Association (BDGA) holds their local championship.\u00a0\u00a0And every year, as I read\u00a0about this event in The Buffalo News , it somehow gets me worked up a bit.\u00a0\u00a0Let me try and explain.<\/p>\n
While the BDGA championship is open to all registered players in the district (both private and public course players) with an index of 8.9 (I believe) or lower, you will never see a public links player win this event or even have a decent showing.\u00a0 In fact, I’m not even sure if public course players enter this event.\u00a0 If you were to ask yourself why this is, the only logical answer is that private course players are better golfers than public course players.\u00a0 And, by results only, you would be right.\u00a0 But, I’m not ready to concede that point completely.<\/p>\n
For, in my\u00a0opinion, the private players are so much better because the deck is so overwhelming stacked in their favor.\u00a0 Take this year’s winner, Raman Luthra for example.\u00a0 I’m\u00a0 sure Mr. Luthra is a nice fellow and probably possesses some natural athletic ability, but, had he (or his family) not had the financial wherewithal to have private lessons from the age of 14 until now or had the privilege of playing at a superior course with practice facilities and a teaching pro at his beck and call or just had the chance to go out and play without waiting in a bag line or enduring 5 hour rounds at the local muni, I’m guessing you would never see his name at the top of any local golfing list.<\/p>\n
The other thing that riles me up a bit is the coverage of this event by The Buffalo News.\u00a0 The News treats this event (and the female version) as major local news events.\u00a0 I’m actually fine with this except for the fact that The News rarely gives little or any coverage to\u00a0any of the\u00a0local Publinks events.\u00a0 \u00a0Now, I’m not asking for three day in depth coverage, but, they could at least throw us public course players a bone or two.<\/p>\n
So, in the end, privilege wins out as it often does, but, us public course players will still keep hacking away with the knowledge that all of us golfers play the same game and we all get out of it just about the same results as the amount of time, effort and money that we put into it.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year about this time, the Buffalo District Golf Association (BDGA) holds their local championship.\u00a0\u00a0And every year, as I read\u00a0about this event in The Buffalo News , it somehow gets me worked up a bit.\u00a0\u00a0Let me try and explain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ricos-rants"],"yoast_head":"\n