Whilst talking about the current fixation of golf's ruling bodies with technology and professional golf on The Pro Shop recently, the subject of the growth of the game came up. And of course, the stats over the last decade show a steady decline in rounds played across Australia.
The 'fiddling whilst Rome burns' analogy comes immediately to mind, but the reasons for the numbers going backwards are more complex than simply attention deficit. I mention a few of those in this article, but one ongoing issue that golf needs to deal with sooner rather than later is its fixation with the past and ongoing attachment to elitism. Read it here.
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