I don’t know XFrequentists’s reasons, but in addition to this I think golfing as a social skill tends to apply more to old money/old institutions (and particularly in America). I don’t have evidence for this, but that’s pretty much the only setting I’ve seen it in. My husband went golfing with work a few years back (he’s an system administrator) and he and the guys he went with all got drunk and played pool with the golf clubs/balls—even where it was set up as a work gathering, it wasn’t taken seriously.
However, given your question—if it there was good evidence to support it’s prospects in one’s career—I think it would come down to whether personal dislike of golfing (for example, something I feel) overcame the benefits of golfing in that particular situation and the desire to dramatically improve one’s job prospects. I suppose that’s rather obvious, though?
I don’t know XFrequentists’s reasons, but in addition to this I think golfing as a social skill tends to apply more to old money/old institutions (and particularly in America). I don’t have evidence for this, but that’s pretty much the only setting I’ve seen it in. My husband went golfing with work a few years back (he’s an system administrator) and he and the guys he went with all got drunk and played pool with the golf clubs/balls—even where it was set up as a work gathering, it wasn’t taken seriously.
However, given your question—if it there was good evidence to support it’s prospects in one’s career—I think it would come down to whether personal dislike of golfing (for example, something I feel) overcame the benefits of golfing in that particular situation and the desire to dramatically improve one’s job prospects. I suppose that’s rather obvious, though?