This is part 3 of a series of articles highlighting the reasons why playing the game is a challenge for 18 to 34-year-olds. Read the rest of the series.
Where I am from -- here in Hattiesburg, Miss. -- golf isn't really accessible. There are a lot of factors in why...
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Golf Is A Date With Dad
I was raised to be a basketball player. Most little girls want to be princesses or ballerinas when they grow up; I wanted to play in the WNBA. My dad and I spent hours every day shooting hoops and practicing ball-handling drills. My favorite part about playing basketball was spending time with my dad, but...
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Golf Is A Sport We Love
#GOLFIS more than just a sport. It is more than competitions and winning. To me, golf is about playing a great sport with great people and having a great time. Others often overlook the game of golf, claiming it doesn’t take much skill or thought. If only I could prove them wrong more often.
Golf is a...
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PART 2: Why Millennial Golf Is A Challenge
This is part 2 of a series of articles highlighting the reasons why playing the game is a challenge for 18 to 34-year-olds. Read the rest of the series.
Over the past 20 years, the participation rate among millennial golfers has decreased by roughly 30-percent. With young adults still accounting for...
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Golf Is A Sport Of Creativity
Golf is a sport of patience and composure; a slow-paced game, and this does not appeal to many young people. While there is not much one can do to make the game as fast paced sport like basketball, it can be made more of an adventure.
When I was younger I loved going to summer golf...
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PART 1: Why Millennial Golf Is A Challenge
This is part 1 of a series of articles highlighting the reasons why playing the game is a challenge for 18 to 34-year-olds. Read the rest of the series.
#GOLFIS a challenge for many college golfers, especially when golf courses are not on or right around campus. I know when I...
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Golf Is Not Boring
#GOLFIS passion.
As anybody that has played golf for a significant amount of time will tell you, golf is many things. Golf is creative, ever-changing, a sport, competition, leisure, fun, relaxing… I could go on. At the end of the day, the one word that sums up all of those attributes the best is passion.
Golf is...
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Golf Is A Way To Remember
#GOLFIS a way to remember.
Who introduced you to golf? Was it your mom or dad? Maybe it was your grandparents, maybe your friends.
For me that person was my dad. I grew up practicing with my dad in the backyard bending shots around the house. As I got older, he took me to the course. It...
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Why We Love Golf
What the sport of golf means to people is extremely difficult to put into only 140 characters on Twitter, since at any one moment golf can be any number of things. It can be a moment of triumph as you break 80 for the first time or crushing defeat as you 3-putt your last hole...
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Golf Brings the Community Together
#GOLFIS not only a sport but it is a lifestyle.
I learned this first hand at the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association 63rd Annual Awards Dinner, on June 23rd 2014. Freddy Couples and Nancy Lopez were both honored at the dinner, along with John Feinstein, Knickerbocker Country Club, The Blackwelders, Travelers and the NJ PGA. All of...
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