Is “Growing the Game” important to you?

It is important to me, but it has to be done correctly. Riff Raff is welcome as long as they are willing to comply with the time honored traditions of the game and observe etiquette.

Growing the game on the tour level, especially the LIV tour is bullshite

I love this issue because of the complexity.

Growing the game = More golfers = more money.

Courses are making more money so they could put some of that money into upkeep, which means nicer courses. But the flip side is that more traffic on the course could mean worse conditions.

More golfers means the tee sheet will fill up faster making it more difficult for people to obtain tee times. But if the growth is sustained, it could justify opening a new course or doing a big renovation to an old course that makes the old course a desirable course.

More golfers means that more equipment is being purchased, which increases the prices of Taylormade, Titleist, etc. They can use those profits on R&D to develop better technology. You'll also have more golfers playing so smaller, niche companies can survive.



If you work in golf from equipment to course ownership to playing professionally, you want golf to grow. It's your business and you want your marketshare to increase with more customers. Those people are the ones on TV talking about golf, so that's why you hear that line so often.

LIV depending on next years schedule might have an argument for growing the game internationally. Right now it’s USA, UK, Japan and Korea

If you like nice courses, it should be. Keeping memberships with a good variety of young and old is important to good local courses. If the memberships get old with no one young joining, those clubs will die off.

It the game doesn't grow, courses will continue to close and or lose money. It might be inconvenient for us causal golfers but I am more than sure golf course owners would agree with growing the game.

Growing the game is important to me because there were people that took the time, effort and money to develop my game. I’ll always be thankful for that. The only way I can think to repay those that helped me is to help the younger generation of golfers. I give old bags, clubs, etc. to a few youngin’s I know along with a few swing tips when asked.

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play local muni's for under 30 a round.

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Not in Central Florida. You can play the 9 hole walking courses for $25-28, but not an 18 hole course anywhere in the greater Orlando area, unless you play twilight rates after 2:30 or 3 o'clock.

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You can play the 9 hole walking courses for $25-28

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unless you play twilight rates after 2:30 or 3 o'clock.

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I mean you just proved my point, because not once did I specify the time of day or length of said round... Just said that you could.. Also Orlando is kind of an outlier huh?? Fl is pretty much a golfing hub and Orlando being a tourist trap probably yields a little higher green fee..


On another note and while we're talking about Orlando area.. Got any suggestions?? Gonna be there in June/July for about 12 days and would like to play something other than the Disney courses..