I am from Brazil, not the sort of the country where Golf is popular...
The only persons I knew that used to play it, were really, really rich (ie: have more than 10 million USD or something like that, that to a brazillian is absurd, I think 10 million USD puts you into the top half percent or something like that, since earning 2k USD/mo already puts you into top 5%)
EDIT: Just checked the Green Fee on the golf course that exists on my city, it is frigging 300 USD, it is almost a month mininum wage.