He can be reached at (760) 778-4633 or Follow him on Facebook or on Twitter at Larry_Bohannan. Larry Bohannan is The Desert Sun golf writer. And maybe, just maybe, the math will change for the future of the game. Check out the FAQ to help you get started Note: This wiki is meant to be a proper information source for all things Barney. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to create the site. If the participation rates have indeed hit a bit of a bottom, and then are starting to swing up a bit, that’s good news for everyone. Barney Wiki is a collaborative website about Barney the Dinosaur and his friends. But the fight for the future of the game is certainly not over. He’s done the math, and he doesn’t like where the game might be in 20 years. The problem has been, as Adams has pointed out before, the game isn’t attracting enough new golfers to make up for the decline in the avid golfers. If the game can start getting new golfers today, those golfers might turn into the avid golfers of 10 years from now.

A lifetime of 20,000 rounds of golf must begin with a single round somewhere. On the other hand, golfers like that must be developed in some way. They are, as Adams says, the crux of the game. These are the golfers who are more likely to join private clubs and buy new equipment and generally spend money on the game. “All the local membership committees are still nervous.”Īdams is right about the NGF’s numbers on core golfers. “Half empty versus half full, at least the doomsayers are quieter,” Adams wrote. So when he sees small increases in the number of rounds played, numbers than have been fairly consistent across the board from any number of reporting organizations this year, Adams wonders just who it is that is playing the extra rounds that are being charted. Those are the golfers the game can least afford to lose. What Adams is saying is that the group of golfers who really, truly support the game, the die-hard players who play more than twice a year at family reunions, that group of golfers, is shrinking. (Then) 10.2 million in 2000 and 6.4 million today and hopefully leveling off.

“(It was) 6.9 million in 1985, when the category first appeared. What scares Adams, a part-time desert resident, is that group of avid golfers is shrinking.

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