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shraby

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2. It seems the younger people are more into action oriented things to do, and golfing is pretty
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:36 PM
Jul 2018

slow and boring.

Give them mountain bikes, motorcycles, hang gliders, sky diving, mountain climbing, skiing, snowmobiling, and similar pursuits, and they are much happier.

Go figure. dchill Jul 2018 #1
It seems the younger people are more into action oriented things to do, and golfing is pretty shraby Jul 2018 #2
Put a motocross track on a golf course gay texan Jul 2018 #14
Just starting to get into golf Loki Liesmith Jul 2018 #52
Most of the golfers I know, House of Roberts Jul 2018 #3
Who knew a membership policy of "We Don't Want You Here" would come back to Aristus Jul 2018 #4
Bingo dalton99a Jul 2018 #23
Yachting is probably less popular these days, too. maxsolomon Jul 2018 #5
Yachting, yes. Sailing, however, is experiencing a resurgence Recursion Jul 2018 #29
Sorry, meant to equate Golf with another expensive, effete hobby. maxsolomon Jul 2018 #36
Yachting is effete? That's news to me! Coventina Jul 2018 #47
I took it back and you're still on about it. maxsolomon Jul 2018 #54
Country Clubs don't embrace diversity. Baitball Blogger Jul 2018 #6
A lot of Millenials are inclusive, that's why. no_hypocrisy Jul 2018 #7
Look at the decline of interest in golf and how it... NCTraveler Jul 2018 #8
Yes that was clearly the peak underpants Jul 2018 #13
2 yrs 50% of kids under 18 will be PoC, why would they embrace exclusive environments? I don't ... uponit7771 Jul 2018 #9
Student Loans zipplewrath Jul 2018 #10
Millennials do have a "country club", it's called Reddit/Twitch/etc... Blue_Tires Jul 2018 #11
Gee, maybe it's 'cause they can't afford 'em ??? DinahMoeHum Jul 2018 #12
Lol, what I was thinking and also they don't like golf. n/t Zing Zing Zingbah Jul 2018 #16
In my day gay texan Jul 2018 #15
Yup, What's the difference between a country club and a porcupine? FSogol Jul 2018 #27
Good one!!!! N/t gay texan Jul 2018 #45
My thinking, exactly, gay texan. Ohiogal Jul 2018 #32
I'm a baby boomer and have never joined a country club LeftInTX Jul 2018 #17
Same. phylny Jul 2018 #41
As a Millennial-ish in the tech world wonkwest Jul 2018 #18
Good Luck With That Perspective ProfessorGAC Jul 2018 #38
Well, not mine, lol wonkwest Jul 2018 #50
They can't even afford to buy a house.... beachbum bob Jul 2018 #19
Bingo! tonyt53 Jul 2018 #34
Because they are filled with shallow pretentious homogeneous aging members Freethinker65 Jul 2018 #20
Bingo!!!! N/t gay texan Jul 2018 #46
George Carlin as it right as usual - turn golf courses into homeless housing msongs Jul 2018 #21
No He Wasn't ProfessorGAC Jul 2018 #40
First diamonds, then cloth-napkins, now country-clubs... When will the Millennials have mercy? DetlefK Jul 2018 #22
Not enough millionaire millenials to go around? lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #24
I've personally always thought of country clubs as sort of archaic, myself The Genealogist Jul 2018 #25
Good riddance let them go the way of the telegraph . Fullduplexxx Jul 2018 #26
I hate golf courses. MicaelS Jul 2018 #28
Being in a country club requires looking up from your phone once in a while jmowreader Jul 2018 #30
My son works part-time at the local country club eissa Jul 2018 #31
I've worked a lot of wedding parties in country clubs. Yonnie3 Jul 2018 #33
If no young diverse meillenials are ever interested in joining....... MichMan Jul 2018 #35
Dumb ProfessorGAC Jul 2018 #37
Out here millennials would much rather go hiking or boating, instead of pnwmom Jul 2018 #39
And? ProfessorGAC Jul 2018 #42
This isn't golf hate. I'm just saying what young people in the NW do. They like to be pnwmom Jul 2018 #48
In a Country Club? GulfCoast66 Jul 2018 #55
It's not just country clubs- civic organizations, veterans groups Lee-Lee Jul 2018 #43
I have 2 millenial children Tavarious Jackson Jul 2018 #44
The millennials that I know personally FakeNoose Jul 2018 #49
I worked for a country club once backtoblue Jul 2018 #51
Here in my little affluent corner, Lifetime Fitness has replaced the country club Books_Tea_Alone Jul 2018 #53
With income inequality AwakeAtLast Jul 2018 #56
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