Re: Golf Is Having A Bad Year...Why?
- From: Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:00:49 -0600
Cal Golfer wrote:
I have been watching this Summer as several courses in my area have closed, and have been reading how the courses in Myrtle Beach and around the country are closing at near-record paces.
I have heard a few reasons mentioned by the golf writers: frustration over slow play, overdevelopment of courses in the mid-90's, exorbitant equipment prices, etc.
Am curious what each of you would list as the TOP 3 REASONS PEOPLE ARE PLAYING LESS GOLF IN 2004-5 ?
Things work in cycles. One year people are building restaurants or golf courses, another year they are closing them. Maybe demand isn't down, but isn't as high as anticipated when the facilities were expanded.
People's perception on how much time and money they have changes. These two cycles sometimes line up so that time consuming, expensive pastimes get paid for. Sometimes they don't.
When everybody was talking about this new phenom, they talked about golf and decided to pull out their clubs every couple of months. But they didn't get better and something else came up that was easier.
When newly retired people retire with money, they take up golf. When they get older, it takes longer to recover from the aches and pains. Sometimes they get replaced by younger retirees. But right now retirees aren't so certain they can afford such a pastime.
Or maybe people aren't playing significantly less golf than in any other decade. The current course load is the comfortable one.
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