Some people refer to golf pejoratively as "lofty and rich," a play on words on the Mandarin transliteration of "golf" (gao erfu), and in Taiwan golfers are often labeled derisively as "upper crust."
好事者對「高爾夫」有「高而富」的戲稱，在台灣，打高爾夫球的人也常被貼上「上流階級」的標籤。