Question

What are some of the reasons given for the decline of golf as a sport in Japan and the US?

Answer 1

America was starting in the 1890s that it really came into its own. The country is by far the world’s biggest market for golf, home to about half its players and courses. Golf adds about $70 billion a year to America’s economy. Now day’s golf is struggling to attract a new generation of American players. In 2013, 160 of the country’s 14,600 golf facilities closed, the 8th consecutive year of net closures. The number of players has fallen to around 25m.

These are the three main reasons of decline golf in US-

1. Golf’s calm pace may no longer fit in with modern lifestyles. It can take more than four hours to play a full round of 18 holes and disappearing to the golf course for half the weekend is not compatible with modern attitudes to child-rearing.
2. Golf may have managed to shake off some of its elitist image; America’s troubled economy is once more making it a pursuit of the wealthy. Middle and lower-income golfers have seen their pay packets shrink, hurting membership numbers at mid-range golf courses.
3. Golf has become harder to play and since the 1990s golf-course designers have taken to building longer, tougher courses in order to put golfers and their equipment to the test.

These are the main reasons of decline of golf in Japan like golf in Japan has an image problem and Golf in Japan was seen as more for rich businessmen and so it has struggled to attract the young. The Japanese government is forever launching programs to encourage people to increase the birth rate.