We’ve all obtained just a little fats on a shot attempting to make sure contact and overcorrecting.
This child makes an attempt a shot and admittedly impressed with the chonk on this one – as a result of chunk doesn’t reduce it.
He really buries the membership head within the floor.
At the least he has fun about it.
Even when his pal remarks that he may need obtained just a little fats on that one.
The golfer base elevated by 4 p.c in 2023, from 21.9 million gamers to 22.8 million.
That bump signifies a web enhance of two.3 million folks since 2019, and is the very best variety of golfers within the recreation for the reason that 26 million peak in 2010.
The game is rebounding properly from the pandemic and is welcoming increasingly more new gamers of all ages.
“We haven’t achieved an excellent job of attracting the technology behind us,” Koppenhaver mentioned. “So a part of our problem as an business is we’re beginning to age out.
“We have now an enormous hole in that subsequent technology behind us that didn’t take up golf like I did at (age) 24.”
Golf nonetheless appears to have challenges to handle in terms of attracting new gamers.
Not least amongst these is that the sport may be very troublesome and really costly.
Subsequently it’s all the time encouraging to see younger folks on the course and taking part in the game.
“We haven’t solved any of the three points that individuals mentioned saved them from taking part in golf,” Koppenhaver mentioned. “It nonetheless takes four-and-a-half hours to play. It prices extra to play right this moment, however we now have some cowl as a result of all the pieces prices much more than golf. And regardless of all of the tools we see on the (PGA present) flooring and all the pieces else that’s alleged to make my recreation higher, I nonetheless suck.”
Nonetheless the problem after all closures and the lack of many public entry amenities even when the Actual Property Golf market is steadily recovering.
“There’s a place for actual property golf,” Koppenhaver mentioned. “However not on the degree we have been doing it in ’05.”
