“I found … that the game of golf with one of those electric go-carts was about the best way to have an international conference, because you are getting off the go-cart quite frequently for only a couple of minutes, but for time enough to reflect on what has been said up to that moment and what is going to be said when you get back on the seat of the go-cart.”

So golf is responsible for the advent of politics by 30 second sound bites.
Watching golf is a lot like watching an election campaign. The golfers spend thirty seconds to address and hit the ball, followed by 15 minutes of walking, measuring distances, consulting with the caddy judging weather conditions, while the commentators talk on and on about irrelevant trivialities. An election is very similar. Thirty second sound bites of seemingly important policy followed by an interminable length of time spent on trivialities.