The Forbidden Game: China's...War Against Golf – China Sports

www.slate.com — Dan Washburn explores the growing popularity of golf here in China despite the fact the government announced that building new golf courses is illegal. The number of new courses built since the moratorium on official licenses? 400.

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The Forbidden Game: China's...War Against Golf

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Stuart 1 year 48 weeks ago

The war will last about as long as the Chinese to take to nurture their own robotic version of Tiger Woods. After that the banners will unfurl.

I seem to remember the Chinese claiming that they invented golf a couple of years ago. Indigenous innovation?

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