re: Dick's Sporting Goods Fires 500+ Golf Pros

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The reason clubs are so high is research. These companies are spending millions on millions to have the best. To have the best you have to hire the best. Callaway hired a guy to research their new balls who was employed by nasa.

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True but most golfers you see at public courses never had lessons from a PGA pro and couldn't afford the country club prices and just learned the game from friends or their father and from books or lessons at the YMCA or some guy they knew or a high school coach or took lessons at a public recreation program or just went out and hit the ball at a driving range.

You know for less than a hundred bucks you could get the basics on grips and swings and that was it and you went to the driving range until you weren't a total embarrassment.

The game has changed greatly the last few years most of it has to do with the Great Recession but Gen X, Gen Y, and the Millennials don't play golf as much as previous generations.