The Bronx is home to America's first public golf course, Van Cortland Park, opened in 1895. (The same year the USGA banned the pool cue as a putter.) The price to play a golf course built on public land, with public dollars, on land that some wanted to be a public park, should be in line with other municipal golf courses in the area. If golf is to attract new players, it must attract players among working and middle class Americans (New York City, median income approx. $50,000), and be affordable, or the game risks stagnation at 26M golfers. I would like to see the game grow. It's possible that this development could not have realistically been completed in another fashion, without wasting more tax dollars (Mr. Morrow, as far as I know, New York City tax dollars do not directly fund foreign wars). My criticism of who and how, and the apparent goals of the project, remain the crux of my op-ed.
The headline was an attempt, (maybe lousy), at falling in line with some the New York Post's finest daily blasts. Recall: "Weiner Pulls Out" after Rep. Anthony Weiner resigned over a sexting scandal. For those of you with verbal senstivity issues, quit eating beef and take a ride on the number 5 train through the South Bronx.
Mr. Sweeney, you're right, the sanitation worker was probably not the proper camparison for my piece. I appreciate the insight. A NYC public school teacher might have been more appropriate. Mr. Mucci, as far as a caddie or two knows, Bloomberg is at least a member of the National. I should have said, "one of the courses he belongs to." His home course is one probably closer to Manhattan.
Enjoyed the responses,
AC