Playing the golf game and playing real golf aren’t mutually exclusive. My dad was a fanatical golfer, played regularly for every one of the 50 years I was privileged to share time with him, but I still remember as a kid how he had various low-tec 1970s devices at home that allowed him to practice his swing and his putting in the evenings - something he used to do a lot.
As has been pointed out, golf can be an expensive sport, and I can easily imagine some affluent “real” golfers dabbling with the game on their headset if it manages to be fairly faithful to the mechanics of the player’s actual golf swing.
