MEN GIVING UP GOLF
NY TIMES - The men gathered in a new golf clubhouse here a couple of weeks ago circled the problem from every angle, like caddies lining up a shot out of the rough.
The total number of people who play [golf] has declined or remained flat each year since 2000, dropping to about 26 million from 30 million, according to the National Golf Foundation and the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association. More troubling to golf boosters, the number of people who play 25 times a year or more fell to 4.6 million in 2005 from 6.9 million in 2000, a loss of about a third.
The industry now counts its core players as those who golf eight or more times a year. That number, too, has fallen, but more slowly: to 15 million in 2006 from 17.7 million in 2000, according to the National Golf Foundation.
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Then perhaps those lovely open spaces, golf courses, could be turned into parks and greenways that everyone could use. Then there wouldn't be so many toxic agro chemicals used to keep that putting green, green. Sounds like a win-win to me.
More likely those lovely open spaces would be snatched up by developers to be plowed under for yet more 'luxury high-rise condos' and sprawling McMansion subdivision 'estates'. But I suppose it's nice to dream, anyway.
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