Golf at the Expense of Tennis

Field Maloney at Slate.com writes about the demise of tennis and the rise of golf:

Tennis has become a political liability: effete, preppy, what high-schoolers call a "wussy sport." Whereas golf, no matter how fey the links attire or how pricey the greens fees, has become so solidly red-blooded and all-American that even our folksy president can embrace it.