spinoff: Why is game of Golf dying? What is the cause?

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Tiger sucks now

snobbish, cliquish, racist, elitist, expensive, and 1,000s of other things vying for our attention.

1. No dominant player on the national circuit
2. stagnant wages (golf is an expensive sport to play)
3. cut backs on courses due to budget constraints leading to less enjoyable experiences for casual players
4. the average working american that can afford golf is working more hours than they were before the Great Recession, which means less hours for golfing.

People don't have time to play golf.

The same reason the card game bridge is dying. Cause old white people are dying. Young minorities & people of color don't care for that crap.

It's a relatively expensive, time-consuming, difficult sport at a time when lots of marginal/new players have less money, time, and patience. I enjoy Golf, but play much much less than I used to (which wasn't much).

The real questions should be (1) how one phenomenal golfer near-single handedly led to such an explosion in its popularity, and (2) why "oldtimers" and "real golfers" seem to resent him.

The pros sure as hell don't resent the size of those post-Tiger checks.

Main reason I have seen in the last 5 years...just because you can play a 5 hour round, doesn't mean you should!

It's expensive as frick to hit a ball around.

I used to live on a very nice golf course. Sold the house about 4 years ago. Thank God. That house is now worth 1/3 less than what I sold it for. Golf is definitely dying.

As others have said, it's expensive. And the younger generation doesn't have the patience or attention span to spend a few hours hitting a small white ball around. It takes a lot of time and patience to get proficient.