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More Americans Are Giving Up Golf

Contains several interesting facts about golf in the United States:

1) “The total number of people who play has declined or remained flat each year since 2000, dropping to about 26 million from 30 million”

2) “the number of people who play 25 times a year or more fell to 4.6 million in 2005 from 6.9 million in 2000″

3) “core players (those who golf eight or more times a year) has fallen, but more slowly: to 15 million in 2006 from 17.7 million in 2000″

4) about 25% of golfers are women

5) “Between 1990 and 2003, developers built more than 3,000 new golf courses in the United States, bringing the total to about 16,000.”

So what are people doing instead of golfing? One theory is electronic gaming. Which means that golf is being replaced by things like… the forthcoming Lego universe:

See also: LEGO Universe: ‘LEGO Star Wars Multiplied By A Million’

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