Oh, sure, our long economic slough has claimed plenty of casualties, from the (largely) chastened automobile industry to the shameless investment-banking sector. But there is one site of carnage that no correspondent has surveyed: the sheer scale of human loss is unfathomable and the implications of its long-term failure are simply unendurable to contemplate. We speak, of course, of the nation's beleaguered private golf clubs, which fearless embed Dean Foust, the Atlanta bureau chief for Business Week, reveals is embroiled in nothing less than an "existential crisis."