Patrick King’s Reviews > Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf > Status Update

"Television reduces golf to a two-dimensional spectacle as skin-deep, finally, as a pornographic film; in its tendency to show golf as a series of putts that go in the hole or not, television presents a complicated, pleasurable activity stripped of foreplay, feeling, and the vast terrestrial and atmospheric context that corresponds, in this possibly overextended metaphor, to courtship."

"Meanwhile, back at the public courses, mayhem reigns."