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Originally Posted by sirknor
I don't think the Millennials will want a house in the Villages ether.
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Yep...
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised that after this current rush of Baby Boomer's retiring comes to a close in the next 10-15 years, TV really slows down...and maybe even becomes a bit 'shabby.'
I know my kids will be looking to sell when they inherit this place and in 25-30 years when they're ready to retire, I'm guessing they will be looking at more of condo style housing with a large choice of amenities and an emphasis on 'mixed-use'...that doesn't have golf at the center of it.
Not that there isn't plenty to do here already, but it will take a big change for golf to become the aspiration and primary focus...that it is/was for a lot of us.
Not to mention, and it is sad to think, but I believe when the average Millennial is ready to retire...they won't be as financially secure as the average Boomer.
The hard reality is, that because of the cost and lack of easy access...golf isn't exactly growing.
In fact, it has been on a gradual, but steady, decline...for a while now.
Death watch: How much longer can golf survive? - MarketWatch
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Of course, it would help if anybody actually wanted to play the game. The NGF says the number of U.S. players dropped from an all-time high of 30 million in 2005 to 24.1 million in 2015. That’s below even the pre-Tiger Woods high of 24.7 in 1995. Though optimists note that the average number of rounds being played per player hasn’t dropped, the U.S. golf industry has been largely unable to woo beginners into playing more than a few rounds before dropping the sport entirely.
Golf’s core audience is literally dying, and it’s affecting golf far beyond its television broadcasts. After the U.S. built golf courses at a rate of roughly 400 a year during the 1980s and 1990s, it’s retreated from a peak of 16,000 courses. Though the U.S. still accounts for more than 40% of the world’s golf courses, according to the National Golf Foundation (NGF), the country has lost nearly 800 courses in the past decade. Some have been outright abandoned for their real estate value.
Listen, we understand this is an era of niches and that golf doesn’t have to try to be all things to all people. But golf isn’t e-sports. It isn’t soccer. It isn’t the NBA. It’s a sport whose niche is narrowing and whose player base is dwindling. It also sits on acres of real estate that have become increasingly valuable as expanding cities consider the redevelopment of golf courses into industrial sites, agricultural areas, housing, park land and mixed-use developments.
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In the meantime though, and until I can't do it anymore, I'll still enjoy being able to take my own golf cart from my driveway here...to so many courses.
I honestly think, and it's my opinion, that
'Da Family' sees it the same way and is the reason that the pace of golf holes (particularly championship courses) down south...are not keeping pace with the number of houses planning on being built.
Just my opinion of course, and lucky for me, one that very few reading this post will ever be able to bring back up in 30 years and say...
"you were wrong." 