Competitive Junior Golf in America

A Physical Cultural Study

AvMarty Clark,Matthew Hawzen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book offers a critical, interdisciplinary exploration of junior golf in twenty-first century America, positioning it as a rich site for examining broader questions about identity, access, culture, and power within youth sport.Drawing from sport sociology, cultural studies, and sport management, the authors interrogate how structures of race, class, gender, and institutional governance shape participation in junior golf, while also attending to the lived experiences, aspirations, and pressures that define young athletes’ journeys. Beyond this primary focus, the book offers insight into how sport operates as a cultural and material force that reflects—and reproduces—deeply embedded social values. In capturing the contradictions of a sport steeped in tradition yet shaped by contemporary pressures, this book bridges empirical research and critical theory, inviting readers to rethink how we structure, value, and understand youth sport in an increasingly stratified and performance-driven world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:19 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social Justice and Equity in Contemporary Sport
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666958485

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Ryan King-White is Professor of Kinesiology at Towson University, USA.Matthew Hawzen is Associate Professor of Sport Management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA.Marty Clark is Associate Professor of Health and Physical Education at Mount Royal University, CAN.

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This book is a must-read for students, scholars, and parents who want to understand how the increasingly corporatized and commodified world of junior golf is situated within the sweeping economic, political, and cultural orthodoxies of neoliberalism. The authors capture the richness and complexities of competitive junior golf while problematizing the inequalities and consequences embedded within it. Crucially, they offer a sophisticated, historic, contextualization of junior golf blended with embodied (auto-)ethnographic insights and deeply moving personal reflection to create a fascinating, authoritative, and compelling window into contemporary debates about the reproduction of societal privilege, inequity, and power. These insights challenge the reader to grapple with the profound social consequences of a junior golf system that, at one and the same time, promises meaningful social development whilst reinforcing persistent exclusionary barriers within the broader systems and power structures that shape contemporary America. In this sense, the book is so much more than a book about golf; it provides a window through which to view broader struggles over the classed, gendered, and raced consequences of neoliberalism, provides insight into how young golfers need to invest in themselves to become valorized and productive neoliberal citizens, and imagines alternative systems that prioritize equity and inclusion.

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PreludeIntroduction: Why Junior Golf? Why Now?Chapter 1: Junior Golf in America from the 1890s to World War IIChapter 2: Modern Junior Golf: From Keynesianism to Neoliberal Late CapitalismChapter 3: The Contemporary Junior Golf Experience: An EthnographyChapter 4: Digital Takeover: Junior Golf and the Entrepreneur of the SelfChapter 5: Family, Fatherhood and Raising Junior GolfersConclusionAppendix A: Tournament Typologies and Notes on Access, Observation, and Interpretative Process via Ethnography and AutoethnographyReferencesIndexAbout the Authors