Return To Main Blog Page Numbers and Lies? Wed Jul 18, 2007 at 12:24 AM
In the July 7 edition of Golfweek I read that Russia has only 27 holes in the whole country. 27 holes!!! This is a country with 9 time zones, covering 6+ million square miles, every kind of weather and land mass you can think of, and only 1 ½ golf courses?
I don’t believe it.

There are a lot of wealthy Russians who have bought up big chunks of prime real estate in London, have summer houses on the Black Sea and Golfweek is implying that these guys don’t play golf? Or don’t play golf in Russia? There’s something fishy about this—I’d love to hear the source of this factoid. Anybody know the truth?

More numbers, no lies: In the U.S. Women’s Open not a single Nike club was used, and only four players used a Nike ball. That seems amazing to me. Granted, the LPGA is losing audience left and right, and Michele Wie is still on the sidelines, but I’m shocked that Nike has no women on its tour staff. I wonder why.

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