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Originally Posted by twoplanekid
Calm down Grace and I know you don’t like change. I asked a simple question, presented my thoughts and stated that I have submitted my ideas on The Villages survey. As the survey is under the auspices of the developer, I would hope you would agree with them when they ask for our help to make things even better for everyone living in TV. Yes, some ideas will fly and some won't.
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Well stated.
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Originally Posted by justjim
Twoplanekid: As I already mentioned in my previous post, (#25) my first thought "this won't fly". No pun intended. But... I thought you have a creative idea and why not give it a go!
As usual you have disagreement among posters, especially those with strong opinions. With few exceptions, most of us like "things" the way they are in The Villages. Thinking "outside the box" is rarely acceptable especially in a sport as old and traditional as golf. Enough said. I look forward to meeting you sometime around The Villages.
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As an avid golfer on the championship courses, two-plane's idea initially struck me negatively...and as being quite naive.
Upon further reflection however...I'm coming around to your thoughts on it.
While some very specific rules, protocols, oversight/supervision and limited times to do this (twice a year?) would need to be established up front...I don't really see the harm it would do.
And while I don't exactly relish the thought of having more golfers become interested in taking up tee times, I can also see the larger picture in that golf is actually losing participants in recent years (discounting our little anomaly here) and
'growing the game'...should be the goal of everyone who truly loves to play.
Along those lines, making one of these
'non-golf tours' to coincide with the peak of summer break for kids...might be a good idea.
Golf's decline takes toll on retailers
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Millennials, the key to the sport’s future, are shunning the expensive and time-consuming game in favor of more instantly gratifying pursuits such as Pokemon Go and Netflix binges. That’s bad news for companies like Nike and Adidas AG, which said in May that it was starting talks with potential buyers for the bulk of its golf unit, TaylorMade, which generates about $1 billion in annual sales.
“In any sport, you’ve got to get young participation to drive long-term growth,” said Brian Yarbrough, an analyst at Edward Jones & Co. who covers Nike. “You’ve got to have a crop of younger people coming in at 20, 25 years old who will play the game 20, 40 years. You are not seeing enough of that.”
The number of U.S. golfers dropped to 24.1 million in 2015 from a peak of 30.6 million in 2003, during the height of Tiger Woods mania, according to the National Golf Foundation. The decline among young people is even more troubling: The participation rate has fallen 30% over the past two decades. In the United Kingdom, where modern golf originated, the average age of once-a-week players jumped to 63 in 2014 from 48 in 2009.
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