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In reply to the discussion: Why Won't Millennials Join Country Clubs? [View all]wonkwest
(463 posts)18. As a Millennial-ish in the tech world
Golf just doesn't work culturally anymore.
People with money will always seek exclusivity, but in my world, that exclusivity tracks with the article. It's all urban. Certain bars, lounges, etc. Networking happens with activity trips instead of 18 rounds. "Hey, let's going skiing in Tahoe for a weekend. Let's join an urban soccer league. Let's hit up these exclusive restaurants."
Country clubs are perceived as an older, white phenomenon and not something people of this generation with money are looking for.
Upper middle class Millennials, in my experience, want to be able to flash their cash around a bit. Best food, best car, best clothes, best watches, best vacations, etc.
No one is on a golf course.
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It seems the younger people are more into action oriented things to do, and golfing is pretty
shraby
Jul 2018
#2
2 yrs 50% of kids under 18 will be PoC, why would they embrace exclusive environments? I don't ...
uponit7771
Jul 2018
#9
Because they are filled with shallow pretentious homogeneous aging members
Freethinker65
Jul 2018
#20
First diamonds, then cloth-napkins, now country-clubs... When will the Millennials have mercy?
DetlefK
Jul 2018
#22
I've personally always thought of country clubs as sort of archaic, myself
The Genealogist
Jul 2018
#25
This isn't golf hate. I'm just saying what young people in the NW do. They like to be
pnwmom
Jul 2018
#48
Here in my little affluent corner, Lifetime Fitness has replaced the country club
Books_Tea_Alone
Jul 2018
#53