YOURSAY ‘Who is free to play golf? People are busy cooking kangkung lah!’

Golf should be a game for all, says Najib

Anonymous #44199885: We have a PM concerned more with access of ordinary Malaysians to golf rather than dealing with racism in his cabinet and religious extremism in government institutions. Is golf important when Malaysians are concerned more with bread and butter issues, religious extremism, racism, falling education standards and the poor state of the economy?

The PM seems unable to deal with the racist mouthing of his Umno members and the cabinet.

If sports development is a concern, there should be proper planning and programming beginning at pre-school level and continuing into the primary and secondary education with proper facilities, specialist coaches, sports medicine facilities, dieticians being easily accessible.

This should be formulated at district level at each state or groupings within districts so that access is more meaningful in terms of ratio of students to facilities and coaches and usage time. Current successes is down to the initiatives of the individuals rather than strategic sports plans.

Real Truth: Does Najib Abdul Razak know the cost of golfing? He does not because he plays free of charge. The cost of land is so exorbitant that the prices of our simple homes in the suburban areas like Semenyih and Rawang are so exorbitant. The middle class is struggling to survive. There is a dearth of land for housing, but it is possible to create 18 hole greens.

Surely, everyone wants to play golf if it were affordable and fields are aplenty. Even playgrounds for children are becoming rare these days, let alone golf clubs.

Bystander: The PM should concentrate on games in which we once excelled such as badminton, sepak takraw, squash and football. The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) is now in crisis and very soon would be left with minnows, with the big number of players leaving it. Resolve this issue fast and we could still have a hope for glory that we have lost.

We need to also build a succession to our squash queen, Nicol David, if we still wish to be renowned as the world's greatest in squash. Bring back the fame of our football prowess in the seventies and eighties. We were once a formidable country in Asia as far as football was concerned. We even beaten South Korea repeatedly before!

So don't be distracted and try to chew on something new like golf in which we could never be world standard, at least in the next century! Do something that we were really good at and build from there!

Vijay47: Finally I realised that golf is a great social equaliser, that the effort and activity of placing spherical objects into distant holes are necessary ingredients in the Malaysian pursuit of happiness as it brings serf in touch with lord, maid in contact with first lady, and the meek shall inherit the earth.

Unknown by the illiterates and Jews who read Malaysiakini, what Najib is also sagely saying is that golf can be a healer of wounds caused by the word spoken or writ, which is why next month he will be hosting a tournament especially for Ismail Sabri Yaakob and stubborn Chinese traders. I just cannot wait for April come she will, when Najib, and Rosmah Mansor of course, will be introducing polo to all of us plebeians. And I don't mean the T-shirts.

Gordon Gecko: I agree with Najib's RM2 million investment in golf for the schools. Who knows, the golf investment might groom a future kampung Malay PM who can play golf and take centre stage with the other world leaders and enhance Malaysia's ‘golf diplomacy’.

Who had heard of sepak takraw diplomacy or ‘konda kondi’ diplomacy? Furthermore, golfing is the only way to go to promote tourism. Who takes a flight abroad to play sepak takraw or badminton? The US have the famous Tiger Woods, in the future, Malaysia might have it's own renowned golfer known as ‘Harimau Rimba’.

Versey: When the rakyat complained about inflation, he suggested kangkung to them; on the day when MH370 mysteriously disappeared, he was happily busy promoting RM1 chicken; when several states in the country, including his home state, Pahang, were badly hit by the flood, he went golfing in Hawaii and when thousands of flood victims are still left homeless and directionless in life, he flew to Thailand on a private jet and surprised us with the emergence of his long missing darling wife.

When his minister was found tweeting seditious statements against the Chinese traders, he didn't even attempt to reprimand him.

Now when the rakyat are worried about the standing of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) debt, the coming goods and services tax (GST), the economy and many of the flood victims are still in need of financial aid, he donated RM2 million (out of government coffers?) to the Malaysian Golf Association (MGA) which in the eyes of the general public, a rich men's club.

Promoting golf to all Malaysians! Who is the incredible adviser/consultant to this equally incredible PM?

Sa Tombs: Another PM of this country was quite critical of golf at about the time punchcards were introduced. Are the punchcards still in use ? It is at the golf course that deals and cuts are discussed and so the Malaysdian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will not have diret access to the shenanigans that go on at the course. Why do you think that it attracts a number of civil servants?

Ayam RM1...Bila?: Golf for everyone... how about equality for everyone.

RCZ: This PM of ours must be kidding right? The country is in financial trouble, properties are bought overseas with rakyat money, no answers for 1MDB are forthcoming, prices are rising, goods and services tax is coming, corruption is going on, racim is rising its ugly head , the people are suffering from flood damage and devastation etc and this man says NOTHING about all those issues and advocates golf for the common man.

I say again, he has got to be kidding.

SusahKes: Sure. Golf should be played by all Malaysians, especially during the flood season. Thanks for the tip, Najib!

Nes: Sound like if they have no bread, give them cake!

Awang Top: Who is free to play golf like government ministers? People are busy cooking kangkung lah!

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