Golf Is Not a Crime, Part II

Soon kids will be bumrushing Koston for his autograph–on their golf bags.

The November issue of Golf explains the trend:

“When their sport exploded, star skateboarders of all stripes blasted into a new tax bracket. The same snotty kids who once had scraped together change to buy Slurpees were suddenly earning in the high six-figures. They had cash flow. They had free time. And before you knew it, they had golf clubs in their hands.”

The well-written article follows skateboarders Eric Koston, Tim Gavin, Adrian Lopez, and Lee Dupont around Oak Creek Golf Club (although they prefer LA’s crummy munis). Dupont has the fundamentals, but Koston, with his Burberry golf shirt and a $24,000 gold rolex, looks the smoothest.

Golf and skateboarding have many similarities. I think the writer would agree:

“Like Vijay Singh, skaters practice with single-minded repetition, working from dawn to dusk to master a move. The secret, you might say, is in the asphalt. For every great golfer beating balls until his hands blister, there’s a skater with skinned knees hauling his board and bruises and bloody bandages back up the stairwell for another run.”

In other skateboarding news, I don’t think I’ve rolled on my skateboard in six months.