It's always an interesting topic to get people stating their point of view.
According to Dr Bob Rotella:
Fifteen years ago the average American male golfer's handicap was 16.2. The average female golfer's handicap was 29. TODAY, the average American male golfer's handicap is 16.2 and the average female golfer's handicap is 29!
Dr Bob Rotella, The Golf Of Your Dreams
What does this mean?
GOLFER'S HAVEN'T IMPROVED DESPITE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES!
My husband would now say; 'ah, but the courses are getting longer and more difficult ' and he'd be right.
What's your view?
Have your say and comment here or e-mail me at liz@extremegolffitness.com
Interesting Fact:
There are approcimately 68 million golfers around the world playing on 40,000 courses!
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Liz,
Perhaps those statistics are not directly influenced by technology itself. I believe many of the technological advances in golf do help to improve ones game. However with that said, there are many golfers that do not pay attention to their fitness which could be why the technological advances are at least for the time being keeping "par" with the decline of physical activity for the general population and balancing it out. I believe that real score improvement comes from the person holding the club to begin with and a lot of technology helps to make up for what an individual player may be lacking in. When you combine the two together is when you start to create a really good golf player.
Golf is also a sport that is continually growing and attracting so many different types of people than what it once did 15 years ago which also could be smudging the results of those statistics somewhat.
You brought up a great point with this post Liz and it is definately deserves more discussion.
-Bob
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