Championship, where he missed the cut on Friday.
“There's so many different things that kids can get into and go toward that honestly, playing five hours, five and a half hours, of a sport just doesn't sound too appealing," Woods said ahead of the P.G.A. Woods said on Tuesday that golf’s time investment limited its appeal to today’s children, regardless of background. Woods, who is Thai and African-American, brought mock turtlenecks, celebratory uppercuts and the chiseled physique to golf, changing plenty about how the game looks.īut predictions that his superstardom would diversify the sport have not come true.Ī lack of easy access to golf courses and the high costs associated with competing have proved to be problems that even the rise of a once-in-a-century star like Woods, or the everyday benevolence of teaching professionals, cannot solve.
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There were supposed to be scores of Kobe Narcisses by now, at every level of golf - minority children who coursed into the sport after Woods burst the dam with his dominant play as a junior and with his peerless career as a pro - or at least a lot more than there are. Most of his teammates, he said, “decided they weren’t ready to play.” And this spring, Kobe Narcisse, who is African-American, recruited five other students, most of them baseball players, to form a golf team at his public high school outside New Orleans.īut by the time the scholastic regional championships started, Narcisse, 14, a freshman, was the only golfer left. He was introduced to golf at age 5 by his father, Robert, who took up the sport as an adult after Tiger Woods’s victory at the Masters in 1997. Kobe Narcisse plays high school football mostly because his friends are on the team, but he would rather crush drives than deliver crushing hits.
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