I cant speak for america but here in the UK it is as popular as ever and ifact it is probably increasing in popularity, all the major sports sites have golf on there home pages.
That's an interesting point, and I think it's largely a biproduct of the fact that small businesses just don't do as well nowadays as they did a while ago. It's grow bigger or fold, small mom and pop stores don't work.Jennifer said:I think it really depends on where you live. I live in Minnesota, and we have a relatively short season as compared to most places, so I think that people really try to take advantage of it as often as they can.
What worries me is that some of the smaller par 3 courses were kids first learn how to play are shutting down and being replaced by housing developments instead because they just don't bring in enough money to justify the cost of leaving all of that land "undeveloped".
At this rate, in my area, kids will only be exposed to golf if their parents are willing to pay $15 to $20 a round, which can get expensive for kids even at the municipal courses.
Jennifer