I briefly stopped at my sister’s place on the way home from a tiring jaunt up to my old stomping grounds, and we went out to dinner.  She took me to this neighborhood tavern that she and my niece swore by, but when we got there, the place was slam packed, by almost entirely white people.  In fact, I didn’t mention it to my sister, but I felt a little uneasy at the sheer lack of diversity in the place outright, because frankly I don’t feel comfortable in any place that’s so overwhelmingly saturated with just one demographic.

But anyway, I couldn’t help but notice that in spite of the fact that it looked like the Republican National Convention fanclub in there, just about every single dude in the place was dressed in their typical white guy golf gear; polo shirts, khaki shorts, etc, the kind of shit that I imagine all white guys meticulously equip themselves in when they’re preparing for a day of white guy-ing it up on the green, day drinking, taking bumps, and talking about how much colored people inconvenience their general way of life.

And then I noticed that three out of the four televisions in the joint were all tuned to coverage of The Masters, and that all of the Ben Afflecks had their eyes glued to the screens, watching Rory McIlroy I guess having a good day, since his minus number was greater than everyone else’s whenever a score graphic popped up.

But the point of this post is that I feel like either this is something that’s kind of becoming a new thing, or perhaps it’s something I’ve just never noticed in the past, because perhaps I’ve just managed to never bother to go out during any prior Masters broadcasts throughout the last few years, but it’s apparent that white guys really like to indulge in cosplaying as golfers while they watch golf in sports bars and pubs, and absolutely nowhere near a golf course.

Like I think it’s pretty amazing if I really have never gone out during a Masters broadcast in the past, and I’ve just been missing this phenomenon of white men getting decked out in all their golf paraphernalia just so they can watch golf, so I have to imagine that it’s perhaps more of a recent thing, but the point remains that this is basically the white people equivalent of their rendition of cosplay, but instead of dressing up in expensive, elaborate costumes of their favorite show, comic or video game characters, they’re instead dressing up in expensive renditions of their favorite golfers.

White folks are usually so arrogant and critical of pretty much anything alternative or stemming from origins perhaps not based in America, so it’s really amusing to me to identify something that all these white bros are all into, and despite the fact that I was just in a specific part of Virginia, I feel like that it’s probably not exclusive to that region, and that if I make a conscious effort to keep my eyes peeled in the future, I’m certain I’ll notice it here in Georgia, or wherever I might happen to be in future airings of The Masters.