Golf was on the decline in popularity for years. Very few players were younger then genx. The last year and a half under covid the popularity of golf has surged amongst millennials and gen z age groups. It took being told they have to stay in their house and not go out to get them all interested in outdoor sports. Camping, biking, boating, golfing, fishing and shooting have all added thousands of new younger participants.
Golf has already been under fire for years by greeny groups worried about water usage and other land use things. Kind of funny to watch the same groups advocating for more green space and less housing developments and urban sprawl change their tune and try to shut down golf courses and then use the land for housing development. All those greeny groups are about the money somehow.
I'm glad to see the younger groups discovering golf. I worked in that industry for 14 years and all are marketing surveys showed golf on a major decline. The future of it looked pretty bleak but is really starting to look up.
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