Golf Magazine has put up an article summarizing some of the new clubs for 2016, complete with pictures and videos. It looks to be a good overview of the new men's clubs that have been introduced so far and, for those of you looking for new sticks, it looks to be fairly thorough. But unless I overlooked them, something is missing.
Where are the ladies's models?
Perhaps I'm just overlooking them, I said to myself. Perhaps I just need to Google it.
So I did. I popped over to Google and searched for "2016 girls's golf golf equipment." And I determined NOTHING. Oh, there were listings of girls's clubs on the market... However I couldn't locate whatever with each "2016" and "ladies" inside the hits.
For an enterprise that says it desires to "include" extra of the ability golfing populace -- mainly girls -- it seems extraordinary to me that the advertising for brand spanking new models excludes them. I'm positive that's truly going to inspire girls to soak up the sport.
Perhaps I'm by myself in my sadness. I understand that men's clubs make up the majority of golf sales and that manufacturers will therefore attention their advertising efforts on the ones models. And possibly those potential players who're being unnoticed might not care -- in spite of everything, once they take a short look and discover nothing, they will put that stupid concept approximately playing golf out of their minds and move on to sports where the system is extra effectively to be had.
Still, it disturbs me. I actually have heard countless talk about "developing the sport" but not one of the movers and shakers -- that is, the oldsters with the money to make it show up -- appear involved on following through. Golf is expensive and time-consuming, and perhaps some of that can not be helped. But we may want to at the least make the gadget clean to achieve.
And if we aren't going to do even that much, perhaps it's time we stop moaning about the declining popularity of golf. Let's just admit that we want golf to be an elitist sport and that we like it that way. As someone once said, it's time to put up or shut up.
End of rant.
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