Golf is becoming more international. Tournaments with leading golfers are being held in India and the Middle East. Next year the prize in the Dubai World Championship will be $10,000,000, the largest ever. Nine years ago 33 of the top 50 golfers were Americans; today 16 are.
Now, I'm not saying anything should be done about this beyond noting that it is another area where American preeminence has declined. It does not really matter whether all or none of the best golfers in the world are American. However, there are areas - e.g., education, innovation, health care - where a decline in our preeminence really does matter. As a nation, we have yet to even acknowledge that we have problems in areas that are vital to our and our children's quality of life. And the idea of devising solutions for these problems is far from most people's minds.
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Speaking of golf, this fed ex ad was kind of funny.
Probably the reason the US used to dominate golf is that we were the only country so dedicated to useless consumption that we could waste land and water for the courses.
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