Columbus Dispatch columnist Joe Blundo took the opportunity in the April 3 edition to ridicule the imminent demise of two Columbus-area private golf courses. Thanks for reinforcing stereotypes, Joe.

I freely admit that I’m a registered Democrat who doesn’t believe in a
liberal media bias. Just check out Fox News if you believe that the media is against everything Republican. But Blundo has done nothing to convince other people there’s no such thing as a liberal bias. Why? His column skewers golf and golfers by the insinuation that anyone who belongs to a country club is an elitist snob on the order of Judge Smails and his buddies.

Sure, you can find that stereotype if you want. But if Blundo had done his homework, he might have found that the two clubs he mentions - Dornoch Golf Club and Winding Hollow Country Club - were among the most accessible in the area for new members. You didn’t need to be sponsored by an existing member and the initiation fees were rock bottom. My guess, and I don’t know it for a fact because I never personally asked, is that you could have gotten into either one of them if you were willing to pay monthly dues.

He lampoons the industry by saying working-class golfers could get into
country clubs with federal government assistance and drops in words like “commoners” and “FEMA trailers.” Country club members will thank us, even as they reject our applications to join, Blundo says in his closing remarks.

Sounds to me like someone has a serious inferiority complex.

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