Margins are thin, customers demand more service, and all the non-essential help has already been laid off. People are working longer (and harder) for less money now. They can't find the time, or justify the expense, of playing golf any more.
The game has changed..in the northeast, the baby boomers...the corporate types who love the game..many have retired, and moved to warmer climates, without state income taxes..i.e. Florida..also, changes in the IRC make it much harder to deduct club dues of the tax return..also, many ofthe “older” group, myself include, isn’t fond of the “Tigermania” that has swept the game..it’s loud, boorish, and ungentlemanly...
This article says golf courses are closing, and another I read said restaurants were going out of business.
I wonder if there is some connection, I wonder what it could be? Hmmmmmmmmmm