Can golf still be regarded as a top sport in the eyes of children?
April 18th, 2009 Senior Golf
The last few years has seen a huge decline in the amount of younger people playing sports like golf. But what is the real reason for this? It certainly isn’t down to kids not wanting to use the electric golf trolleys.
One of the major reasons a lot of young people do not wish to take up the sport is the fact that their dad plays it every other day. It can also be said that if a youngster is going to play golf they are bound to be picked on if they are seen wearing some of the outfits golfers have to wear on some of the courses. As far as I remember the kids at my school that played golf (and there weren't many) were only friends with the other kids that played golf.
I do not understand why people see golf as a old mans sport and not like all the other major sports like football and rugby. Although golf is a high profile sport, most children would sadly prefer to play football or rugby than give the sport a chance. To a certain extent this is untrue as I know an 8yr old boy who loves the game and plays it every Saturday. The problem is he wants to give it up to play football and gardening club instead. How can gardening be better than playing a round of golf I mean really? Is the game really seen to be that boring to the younger people? Although not liking the sport myself I also do not like football or any other of the major sports so i'm certainly not biased against the sport.
To be honest with you I certainly think that kids would benefit from playing golf than a lot of the other sports out there. One of the best things golf has is that the players really don't swear, throw tantrums and everything else footballers love to do which is great as it teachers kids the real way to behave when you are playing a sport. As well as this, other than the huge promotional money they bring in the only other money is if they actually win a tournament rather than getting paid stupidly high amounts of money every week.
So charge up those golf batteries kids and get playing!
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