The caddy has a lightweight bag. A few clubs now, little work, little fun. A few tips, as well. And 'the crisis. The expensive mortgages, the specter of recession, the estimates downward, the fall in available jobs: it all ends on a golf course. America has decided that the first thing superfluous at a time uncertain and worrying this is it: the perfectly cut grass, walk through a hole and the other, the birdie, the eagle, the pause at the club after the game. Cut golf. There was something strange in recent months. There were clubs on weekends and during breaks in the traditional small parties between managers saw a few people. So the bigwigs of the sport that is practiced all over the United States went to ask the statistics here, four million people have said hello to the green. Four out of thirty million regular players . So many, so many that the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have made the hunting of reasons. That is, the golf here is the stuff of all, a kind of status symbol of the American . One bat you have to take over by force . Costs more than other pastimes, and therefore not as expensive as in Europe. What they found in the newsroom is that the players have decided to leave the course because they are afraid that it is unnecessary. That is too expensive. That is uneconomic. That is no longer funny. Because if you think you're doing something that tomorrow you will weigh on the statement of the Visa, then maybe you'd better not do at all.
Damned subprime. And damned newspapers that tell a crisis that it is not clear yet what is brought. But worries. Because there are a lot of money at stake and millions of jobs. The course pays for all. "Golfer for a day, for good golfer," says an American motto. He said maybe. Of the thirty million players in 2000 flooded the fields, now they are 26. Continue to decrease and then more and more people are forced to play with less frequency than before for work: the data from the National Golf Foundation show that in 2000 there were 6.9 million Americans who allowed themselves at least 25 games a year, every two weeks. Five years later they were 4.6 million. Now less than four million.
also dropped the higher end, that is, those who play eight games per year and that in seven years have passed by 17.7000000 to 15,000,000 and year-end are likely to become less than 14 million. The leaders of the U.S. Golf Association have unburden himself on the New York Times: "The reasons are mainly economic. The less people play because they either no longer has time to do it, or because there are no longer able to afford. Many are forced to do two jobs because they have a mortgage to pay, because the purchasing power of their wages are not increases or pensions because they are too low. " Those who suffer the most are the players of the middle class. What are the majority in America. Here golf is not elitist sport. The circles are the hundreds and are faced by all budgets. That is not all all: it costs still more than any other sport for you is not rich is a heavy shopping. Bearable, but heavy. So when things work, people continue to play. Until some time ago, hundreds and hundreds of players had no problem to devote the entire weekend at the club. Today, however, the owners and shareholders 'noble' of the club saw those former regular customers bring their sons to the park to play football. Most of indecency, almost. If you want to play need to find a couple of hours in the morning. Then fill the fields that are shot in cities like New York, overlooking the sea and allow you to shoot a ball away, just to vent a bit '. Then to see the real golf you have to wait in the evening. Tv. The cable. There is Tiger Woods. He earns eighty million dollars a year. He can play what he wants: the subprime does not know what they are.
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