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Old 02-10-2020, 10:33 PM
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Golf is dying, many experts say. According to one study by the golf industry group Pellucid Corp., the number of regular golfers fell from 30 to 20.9 million between 2002 and 2016. ... Unless the golf industry can change its ways, the decline will mean a lot of empty greens across the country. Jun 8, 2018
That is true in urban areas, with a younger population, and further north where there is a limited golf season. Here in the Villages golf is thriving, but it is also getting ridiculously expensive and difficult to get favorable T-times during the winter season. Increasing the size of the Villages by roughly 2/3 and opening only one Championship course, sometime TBD, is seriously diluting one of the primary reasons many Villagers decided to make this place their retirement destination.