From time to time some church friends and I meet a local pizza joint and sit at the bar. A few months ago I was a bit early and the only one from our group so I started chatting with a guy sitting at the bar. He works at the local golf course which is a university course, has a golf team, and is open to the public, and he does course maintenance.
I asked him how business was at the course. He said that over the last five years or so they have such few people playing that they don’t know how to handle the lost revenue; there is a certain maintenance level that is required and they are having trouble financing it. He says people blame it on the economy.
He also said that he is a liberal and he believes that people have stopped playing golf just make Obama look bad. At this statement I almost lost it and I really had to maintain my laughter.
In our area golf courses have been overbuilt and many are turning into housing developments.