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We stole this from FoxNews because they’ve written a piece on something we’ve been screaming for years. Thanks to Mygolfspy for the find.
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The scariest number for the golf business has nothing to do with how many days Tiger Woods will miss from the bulging disk in his neck or exactly how many mistresses he may or may not have taken up with. We’ve been banging our drum trying to get the attention of the golf industry for awhile to show their marketing, their money and their attitude is going the wrong way if they want to attract the next generation of golfers.
It’s this: According to the National Golf Foundation’s most recent participation report, the number of golfers age 6-17 dropped 24 percent to 2.9 million from 3.8 million between 2005 and 2008.
Here’s a reason: Want to make an eight-year-old cry? Tee up a ball for him on a 450-yard hole with a green surrounded by bunkers and tell him to hole out before the group waiting to tee off starts complaining to the course superintendent. All the testosterone-induced courses constructed over the past decade just make it worse. Kids need to start on family-friendly facilities where they can be provided with some good old-fashioned self-esteem.
What makes those golf statistics even more disturbing is that during this period of decline, The First Tee, the national program aimed at introducing younger players to the sport, has been exploding. There are now 200 First Tee Chapters in the U.S., which oversee the operation of clinics at 700 facilities and training programs for some 400,000 kids. Another 1.6 million will take up golf in elementary school gym classes The First Tee has developed. Its programs often present the game in combination with “life skills” such as being honest, polite and other virtuous attributes golf prides itself on.
But USGA executives say the industry doesn’t have hard data on exactly what makes a kid get hooked.
It’s obvious the USGA has no pulse on their own sport. Here’s some non-hard data to show you why kids aren’t taking up the sport.. CLICK HERE
Presented with these figures, golf officials are puzzled. “I don’t know how to reconcile those numbers with what we’re seeing in our program,” said Joe Louis Barrow, Jr., chief executive of The First Tee, an initiative of the World Golf Foundation. He suggested that while The First Tee is very good at connecting with younger kids, keeping teenagers is more challenging. “Conceivably one segment is growing and another is declining.”
Barrow isn’t the only one who is confused. The United States Golf Association has awarded some $65 million in grants since 1997, including more than $1.8 million last year, all aimed at increasing access to golf, in many cases, specifically for young people. But USGA executives say the industry doesn’t have hard data on exactly what makes a kid get hooked.
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Sounds like a problem, right? “At the macro level that’s a fair assessment,” said Steve Czarnecki, assistant director of grants and fellowships for the USGA. “In our view it’s the ability to participate and enjoy the sport components from the tee to the hole. We don’t support programs that are just beating balls on a driving range.”
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The Knuckle Club was established as a winter-playing club on 17 January 1789 and disbanded for unknown reasons by consent of the members in 1825. Once it disbanded, also by consent of the members, the first several pages of its minute books were destroyed, which may suggest that its establishment, or its non-golfing philosophy, may have been other than innocuous. The Knuckle Club as a non-Masonic, winter-playing golf club was finally dissolved in 1844.
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Course Marshal
Definition: A person whose job it is to rule patrol a golf course, keeping the pace of play up and responding to golfers’ questions or concerns. During a tournament, a marshal’s job will be primarily crowd control.
At most courses, marshals are cops volunteers who ride in marked carts, and their primary value is in their visibility. If golfers know a course has marshals, they are more likely to police themselves. Slow play is a primary concern for marshals, and some courses allow marshalls to force slow groups to move up, skipping part or all of a hole in order to speed up play.
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Death to those who steal…
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Thanks to A True Golfer or ATG for finding this video. Golf needs an injection of cool if it wishes to swell it’s ranks with the youth.
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The lack of vision is what keeps golf on the losing side of drawing in more younger players. The PGA and golf companies just can’t figure out the simplicity of the problem. The big companies believe in a Messiah who will bring the young masses to the sport. They put all of their money on one person who they believe will change the future of the sport. Tiger was supposed to bring in the youth and open the world of golf to young African Americans, but this hasn’t really materialized. Now with Rickie Fowler (make sure we call him “Rickie” to market his youth) making the grade, we’ll see a lot of coverage of him and the same usual talk of “how he’ll bring more youth to the game”. Imagine they called him “Richard Fowler”… we’d fall asleep in 5 seconds if they did.
Golf has an image problem. It is a sport of the retired. That is the public’s perception. Change the perception, and maybe you can convince the kids.
The old man in this video is exactly how the youth perceive golfers. Rich, old, cracker ass men, who don’t want you on their course. Triple Bogey is the William Foster of golf. Pissed off and ready to bang our drum, just for the sake of change.
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The Cleansing Sale has dwindled our inventory so we’re doing something we never wanted to do. Allow the public to purchase our “inside” shirts. The most limited of all the Triple Bogey shirts. The Front Nines. Only 12 were made and we’re offering the last few to our customers. We’re even selling it for 50% off. Sizes are limited, so we apologize in advance we if don’t have your size. The promo code is: SOAP.
This is a link to the Triple Bogey On-line Store.
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Lots of talk and writing about the new grooves rule. These rules have everything to do with making the game more difficult.
In the old world, golf’s rules weren’t meant to make the game difficult. They were designed to keep everyone in line.
Burgess Club Examples:
Rule X: No golfer shall under any pretence whatever give any old balls to the Cadies, if they do, they shall for every such Ball given away forfeit sixpence to the Treasurer.
Rule XII: That no Member of this Society pay the Cadies more than one penny per round.
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We still get treated like this at many, many courses. Time to change golf community…because there are more of us coming.
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Dr Browne, Secretary of the Great Yarmouth Club, adopted the idea, and, with the assent of the club’s golfers, this style of competition was introduced there for use in match play. During one competition Mr CA Wellman (possibly Major Charles Wellman) exclaimed to Dr Browne that, “This player of yours is a regular Bogey man”. This was probably a reference to the eponymous subject of an Edwardian music hall song “Hush! Hush! Hush! Here Comes the Bogey Man”, which was popular at that time. So at Yarmouth and elsewhere the ground score became known as the Bogey score.
A ‘bogle’ was a Scottish goblin as far back as the 16th Century and a Bogey-man was a widely used term for a goblin or devil. Golfers of the time considered they were playing a Mister Bogey when measuring themselves against the bogey score.
In 1892, Colonel Seely-Vidal, the Hon Secretary of the United Services Club at Gosport, also worked out the “Bogey” for his course. The United Club was a services club and all the members had a military rank. They could not measure themselves against a “Mister” Bogey or have him as a member, so ‘he’ was given the honorary rank of Colonel. Thus the term ‘Colonel Bogey’ was born. Bogey competitions are still played at many clubs.
The above text was stolen from here because I didn’t feel like typing.
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