Those who believe that golfers are such complex characters that they could not have possibly only evolved at random point out that many low-handicap golfers are also highly successful CEOs.
His point was that much of the explosive growth in the trading of complex financial products - CDOs, ABSs, CDS, EFTs and so on, until we were all alphabetty crazy - may have been (in his words) socially useless.
But the issue is far more complex than this, and to consider it from the point of view of the millions of women in twenty-eight nations where the custom is practiced is to understand a far different reality.