After years of shaking my head in disbelief at Mike DiMauro's columns, his sanctimonious piece on not playing golf due to the coronavirus pandemic takes the cake ("Life, liberty ... and the fundamental right to birdie 17 at Shenny," March 25). In a most difficult time, where our leaders are encouraging continued support of local businesses and promoting exercising outdoors, golf is the perfect and safe blend.

This is especially true given the restrictive measures put in place by local courses. To suggest, somehow, that all golfers care about is their own satisfaction and everyone else be damned is both inaccurate and shameful.

Apparently Mike has forgotten that a golf course is slightly larger than your local grocery store, a place where one will encounter far more people and thus a much greater potential for virus transmission.

In the same issue of The Day − "Finding the good in a time of coronavirus," − columnist David Collins touts all the people, as well as the inherent benefits, he encounters while walking. Possibly the Day's columnists should get together and discuss their opinions among themselves.

Fred Phelps

Norwich