If both people genuinely enjoy golf, it can be a perfectly normal relationship-building setting. The activity itself is not a recruiting hack.

Do not manufacture a golf connection because you think senior consultants expect it. A shared interest works because the conversation becomes more natural, not because the sport carries special recruiting weight.

If you are invited, treat it like any other professional-social setting: be easy to spend time with, do not turn every hole into a recruiting question, and let the relationship develop normally.

If you already golf, sure. Buying clubs to network with consultants would be insane lol.

The best networking is usually just stuff both people actually like doing.