Comments on: ESPN.com’s package on golf in China http://parforchina.com/37 The development of golf in China | By Dan Washburn Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:50:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mumbles http://parforchina.com/37/comment-page-1#comment-114 mumbles Thu, 19 May 2005 02:34:02 +0000 http://www.parforchina.com/blog/?p=37#comment-114 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. 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.

]]> By: LF http://parforchina.com/37/comment-page-1#comment-113 LF Wed, 18 May 2005 23:54:49 +0000 http://www.parforchina.com/blog/?p=37#comment-113 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? 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?

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