Yes, I am calling white privilege.

of course, golf has historically been the "sport" of the privilaged. i remember in high school, guys who were on the golf team (all white) would all caddy at the local country club courses (also all white), because they got free practice time as employee's. and all these guys were sons of officers/executives/etc.

My first job where a non-family member paid me was as a caddy at a country club at about age 14 or 15.  Great summer job, outdoors, learned some bargaining skols.  It only lasted half the summer because the wage and hour enforcement types told the club we had to get minimum wage and the result was about a 90% reduction in caddy work as most golfers chose to pull their own bags after that.

Five years ago, Lynn Loosier, a jazz singer raised in Georgia, bought a renovated two-bedroom apartment in a Renaissance Revival building on Walton Avenue, one block off the Concourse, for $250,000, granite countertops included. Now, she said, most of the 140 apartments in the building are occupied by lawyers, professors and other professionals, with whites making up 40 percent of the tenants. The residents, Ms. Loosier added, cleaned out the basement, hauling away four dump trucks' worth of trash to open up space for the yoga studio, a gym and a room where she gives vocal lessons.

"The one thing we need is good restaurants," she said.

Ariela Heilman, a real estate broker for Halstead Property in Harlem who lives in Ms. Loosier's building, said that in addition to migrants from other boroughs, she often sells or rents to Europeans unaware of the Bronx's reputation, which is still sullied by the arson and crime epidemic of the 1970s.

Several residents pointed out that there have always been black and Latino professionals raising families along the Concourse, proud of having arrived at a symbol of upward mobility even when the atmosphere was harshest.

"Why do people only pay attention when other races move into the neighborhood?" said Marlen Valarezo, 40, a lawyer of Hispanic descent who works at the Neighborhood Association for Intercultural Affairs, which works to prevent evictions. Five years ago Ms. Valarezo moved into a rental apartment off the Concourse with her mother.

This story, about the first full-time white caddy at Augusta, is interesting as well.  He took up the position in 1989.  

But the advent of the golf cart in the 1960s heralded the end of an era for caddies. As the civil rights movement gained momentum and jobs in a variety of industries opened up, young African American teenagers and adults found higher-paying jobs in factories, manufacturing companies, offices, and in many other positions that were traditionally off limits to us. By the early 1970s, many caddie programs at these clubs were all but eliminated. However, the end of blacks dominating the caddie industry seemed to have come in 1983 when the Augusta National Golf Course stopped requiring its Masters participants to use club caddies, who were always black. As a result, players were given the option to select their own caddies, and these new caddies were overwhelmingly white.

"This marked the end of seeing black caddies on television," explains McDaniel. "It was the only time black caddies were treated well and recognized for their role in the sport."

[Four years ago], only one out of the top 50 golf players (Hal Sutton) employs an African American caddie (Freddie Burns). Pete McDaniel breaks it down to dollars and cents. "Last year, there were 55 millionaires on the [PGA] tour, and caddies make 10% of a player's earnings and a bonus if the golfer wins the tournament. Fifty-four white caddies made $100,000; only one black caddie made this amount."

If more black people played golf at a high level there would be more black caddies.

Just like there would be more black hockey players, race car drivers, tennis pros, soccer players, bad mitten players, ping pong players,  volleyball players, baseball players, swimmers, bycyclits, lacrosse players, divers , snow boarders, skiers, surfers,  etc ...