Does the extra curricular activity of ‘golf’ truly rule the world of social interactions amongst business associates? Will requiring business majors to learn golf increase their ability to succeed when they graduate?

Business students attending Xiamen University in China will be forced to get into the businessman’s life with compulsory golf classes. The University’s President has ignited controversey by announcing business students will be required to learn how to drive, chip and putt as part of their studies. Students who will be majoring in management, law, economics, and software engineering will be required to take a course in golf. The University’s President, Zhu Chongshi, told China Daily that “a bachelor’s degree used to be respected regardless of the major, but today higher education has grown into an industry designed to fulfill market demand.ÂÂ