Several hours that do not involve staying home and avoiding all contact with others. What’s not to love?
I saw some friends amid lovely verdant space on the weekend. There were beers involved. And I wasn’t even breaking any lockdown rules.
The result, at least in this province, was an odd dichotomy. On the first hot and sunny weekend of 2020, the concept of “spring” having decided to give Ontario a total pass this year, golf courses were full of participants eager to get out of the house and do something different after two months of Netflix and the odd Korean baseball game.
But it’s also true that golfers, merely by being people who play golf, enjoy some notable privileges at this point in the pandemic response. Residents of different households can gather and spend hours in each other’s company, and they can do so while outdoors and purchasing alcohol. That last part would be against the law in a park, which is all the more notable since bars and restaurants, even those with patios, remain closed.
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