{"id":1448,"date":"2013-11-15T17:11:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2013-11-15T18:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:47:19","slug":"ngf-golf-participation-continues-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/1448\/ngf-golf-participation-continues-decline","title":{"rendered":"NGF: Golf Participation Continues Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling it a &#8220;retention problem,&#8221; the National Golf Foundation announced today that research shows golf participation is continuing its declining trend. Since 2005, 4.7 million golfers have been lost.<a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2013\/11\/920820-a-row-of-empty-golf-carts-at-a-course.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1449\" alt=\"920820-a-row-of-empty-golf-carts-at-a-course\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2013\/11\/920820-a-row-of-empty-golf-carts-at-a-course-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many people believe that golf has a problem attracting new blood to the game, but the truth is golf has a retention problem &#8211; we&#8217;re losing more people than we are gaining,&#8221; the NGF said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>The causes go beyond time and money, the NGF&#8217;s research concluded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The \u2018fun factor\u2019 looms large when it comes to retention.\u00a0&#8220;Two thirds of lapsed golfers just weren\u2019t having any fun,&#8221; the NGF research showed.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire report by clicking right <a href=\"http:\/\/ngfdashboard.clubnewsmaker.org\/aotj5q6ddeyhv3uqgk3uw7?email=true&amp;a=3&amp;p=2184375&amp;t=43825\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling it a &#8220;retention problem,&#8221; the National Golf Foundation announced today that research shows golf participation is continuing its declining&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/1448\/ngf-golf-participation-continues-decline\" title=\"ReadNGF: Golf Participation Continues Decline\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2978,3629],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","tag-national-golf-foundation","tag-ngf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}