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Takeaway alcohol sales run a real risk of alcohol consumption on the streets in the neighborhood of alcohol sellers. That, in turn, can easily lead to loose interpretation of social distancing rules.

The argument for allowing elite sports to go on typically is to give the population some distraction during lockdown (it’s a bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses)

As to golf: if you allow that, why wouldn’t a group of four people be allowed to kick a football around? Tennis be allowed?

Also, part of lockdown is the prevention of people mixing over longer distances. A local outburst of COVID-19 is bad, but if the infected move home over tens of kilometers (as, I guess, is quite normal for golf), you’re asking for a much bigger problem.

Having said that, it is safe to assume the government is far from an expert on what are the risky things to do. Nobody is.