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Radio 4,3 mins

Golf: a real sport or a test of character?

Radio 4 in Four

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Nearly four million of us play golf every year, one in every five hundred jobs is linked to the game and it's worth over 4 billion pounds to the economy. What is it about hitting a ball with a stick that is so compelling? Quentin Letts finds out. First broadcast on What's the Point of...?, 10 August 2016.

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