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Originally Posted by jayswin
It's just such a difficult, time intensive and pricey sport to get into. Anyone who's got better here obviously knows the payoff is a really fun sport, and great way to spend a day, but it's so hard to convince younger people with no skill to sit there and hit ball after ball, knowing that it's going to go nowhere for a long period of time.
Most people want to have some kind of fun with a new sport right away, and with most sports you can, even if you're pretty bad. Paying $50-$100 for a round of golf and then duffing it 5-40 feet repeatedly while partners explain that you have to pick your ball up and not finish holes due to pace of play has many bow out pretty quickly.
And telling them that you gotta sit there on the range or in lessons for months before you can actually have fun on a course is a non starter with most as well.
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Lots of truth to all that, but youth golf is kind of exploding around here. Our high school golf team used to be happy to take whoever showed up, now they are expecting 50 people trying out for 14 spots this year.
For whatever reason, golf seems to be a very YouTube friendly sport that has contributed to kids getting into it.