Overview
Park Golf is a short, 3-hole, turf-based facility in public parks, with specialized, safe equipment, and limited flight golf balls. Park Golf will provide free access to the golf experience where there is none, creating a fun, engaging and inviting environment to try the sport.
Possible facility renderings
Park Golf involves all of the successful ingredients.
- World Class leadership
- Critical collaboration with World Golf Foundation and First Tee
- Holistic program design to address consumer satisfaction, operation requirements, and engagement
- Famous golf course designers
- Major golf vendors
- Celebrity engagement
- Potential sponsorships
There are structural challenges to golf participation.
Participation among junior golfers (between ages 6 and 17) has dropped dramatically from its peak in 2004…
In 2004:
4.1M
8% participation rate.
In 2017:
2.7 M
5.8% participation rate
In 2020:
3.1M
6.1% participation rate
Exposure to golf outside of the golfing family is extremely low. The odds of becoming a golfer are…
If both parents play golf:
2 in 5
8% participation rate.
If one parent plays golf
1 in 4
8% participation rate.
If neither parent plays golf
1 in 250
8% participation rate.
Golf has many barriers for the average consumer
Lack of access
421
Number of golf courses in US’s 100 largest cities compared to the 20,655 basketball hoops
Intimidating
75
Percent of non-golfers with a negative opinion of golf that express zero interest in taking it up.
Lack of diversity
21
Percent of non-Caucasian golfers in the US in 2020
Time Consuming
4 hr, 30 min
Average golf round is ~30% of our disposable weekend time
Costly
100M
Number of Americans who live in households with <$50K per year income