Golf Central

Sorry to disappoint those who spend every available moment fine-tuning their golf swing to impress the boss at work, but it's offical - cycling is the new golf. Doing business on the golf course has been around as long as the game itself, but in the Silicon Valley of Northern California, the yuppie investment bankers are doing their hob-nobbing on their bicycles.

Cycling is a bit of a cult with the young entrepreneurs of Northern California, who cultivate their business relationships on their bikes. Whereas they used the spend the GNP of several small nations on the latest innovations in golf, now they're spending it on state-of-the-art cycling gear;  which is not good news for our friends in the golf manufacturing industry. So, if cycling is the new golf, does that mean that badminton is the new yoga? Here's what our "friends" at the San Jose Mercury-News have to say ...