Barney:
I acknowledge the Asian-hating problem in golf, and agree with you that it exists and is more widespread than people here want to admit.
However, isn't it really an age and sex thing, too?
I've noticed that young male Asians get a pass.
Golf's dirty little secret that few like to admit is that it is probably one of the most racist and sexist pastimes, despite all the Tiger Woods rainbow hype. At the very least its still very stereotypical and judgemental.
I haven't ever really seen any anti-black racism on the course (maybe its different elsewhere, or maybe it is due to their small participation where I live) but man, get behind a group of Asians and listen to the comments fly, even if they can't go anywhere due to the group(s) in front of them. Ditto if you get behind a group of women, or sometimes even a group with one woman. A group of younger men will think groups of old men play slow, a group of old men will think a group of young men are drunk on the course if they see one of them drink one beer.
I'm not saying this is universal, but I hear a lot more stereotyping comments based on someone's race or gender on the golf course than I do in a bar, for instance.
I live in a university town that's probably going to vote 3:1 for Obama, so its pretty liberal and probably less racist than most places, so I have to think that either it is worse in other areas that are a little less PC or that people view the golf course as an acceptable outlet for things they'd normally stop themselves from saying.
Dunno where it comes from. While I certainly have seen slow Asian and slow women golfers, I don't see them in numbers exceeding the amount of slow white male golfers relate to their respective numbers on the course. And those slow white male golfers come in all shapes and ages: old, young, fit and fat.
Just to admit I'm no angel I have own bias against middle aged fat cigar smoking cart riders. I don't think they are any slower than any other types of golfers, I just sometimes secretly wish heart attacks on them when I find they have discarded a half chewed slobbery cigar butt on the teebox!
