Does the Word ‘Public’ Mean Anything to Them?

I am offended by a comment made in the Sept. 15 Times by Mike Rodriguez on the new greens at Rancho Park Golf Course. Rodriguez is quoted as saying about green fees, “If it was 60 or 70 bucks, the riffraff stays out. I’ll pay $50, no problem at all.”

I would like for Rodriguez to define “riffraff.” Is it the minority members who play there? Is it the fixed-income, retired people who play there? Or is it the low-income citizens who can’t afford the $50 green fee that Rodriguez proposes?

I have played Rancho for over 35 years. It is a city course, not private. I don’t think that the City of Los Angeles should be in the business of pricing senior citizens, low-income and middle-class residents out of the use of recreational facilities.

JOE A. HUDSON SR.

Los Angeles

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What a pleasure it was to open the Sept. 15 sports section and read a weekly golf column that was something more than recirculated PGA Tour vignettes and stale Tiger Woods anecdotes.

CRAIG KESSLER

Buena Park