{"id":43174,"date":"2014-06-22T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/the-decline-of-golf.html"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:20:45","slug":"the-decline-of-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/the-decline-of-golf.html","title":{"rendered":"The Decline of Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I grew up in a (amateur) golfing family, and I still try to get out to play a couple of times a year &#8212; usually at a work- or parish-related get-together. \u00a0My friends who play &#8212; simply don&#39;t much, if at all, any more. \u00a0It&#39;s just damned difficult to devote an entire day to the exercise, and darned expensive for an 18 hole round.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t know the answer for any of that (though I suspect dumbing down the game is not going to be it). It may simply be that golf, as a widely available and broadly paid sport, will simply fade out in the next three or four decades.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Lgql4jD4rot48vAPKHbUJCts249-nxm8VypZkJl_jaHnjC0R8CIlaVICBvXSdXMDUJIX1zZqRwsGN6IoT3mMoK87WB53KwDvcFHSDm8=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-06-19\/golf-loses-players-as-millennials-find-it-expensive-time-consuming'>Golf Loses Players as Millennials Find It Expensive, Time-Consuming &#8211; Businessweek<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/TrR3v8BGT8F' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a (amateur) golfing family, and I still try to get out to play a couple of times a year &#8212; usually at a work- or parish-related get-together. \u00a0My friends who play &#8212; simply don&#39;t much, if at all, any more. \u00a0It&#39;s just damned difficult to devote an entire day to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/the-decline-of-golf.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Decline of Golf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,37,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-golf","category-media-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49764,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/the-decline-of-golf-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":43174,"position":0},"title":"The Decline of Golf","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Mar-15 3:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I still enjoy going out for a round of golf, but between a paucity of friends with an inclination to do so, and a paucity of most-of-the-day-free weekends, I'm doing well to get out more than once or twice a year.Growing up, both my parents and my mom's folks played\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134698,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/good-walk-unspoiled.html","url_meta":{"origin":43174,"position":1},"title":"A good walk, unspoiled","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Sep-17 12:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Had an unexpected opportunity -- through some professional \/ job-networking contacts -- to play a fun round of golf yesterday, down at Arrowhead Golf Club, which is not only a nice course, but stunningly scenic, set in the red rock razorbacks that stretch from the Boulder flatirons to Red Rocks\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170914_103008.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170914_103008.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170914_103008.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2517,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/11\/golf_as_the_ame.html","url_meta":{"origin":43174,"position":2},"title":"Golf as the American Sport","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Jun-02 8:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot of people pooh-pooh golf. 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