Exactly this.Im quite certain golfers are not representative of the public demographic.
What is the "public demographic?"
Any sport, club, activity, political or religious group or absolutely anything you care to name is always only a subset of the entire population! I play golf with a bloke who has his own plane, and one who works as a delivery driver! They are both golfers. (Although I did register the word "certain!"
Golf clubs go from the really really expensive to the "actually quite cheap!" Set of equipment can be had off Ebay for £50 or you can spend thousands. "Golf" as a singular entity is a broad label. (EG Football Clubs..... am I talking Real Madrid, Aldershot Town or my Village Pub's Sunday Team?
Some folk will say "what cost of living crisis?" some folk will be really struggling, Twas ever thus, however you want to brand it.
So, at current rates of inflation, we've seen subs go up, attempts to manage costs, some folk pack it it and some places reintroduce joining fees!
I am now old enough to have seen several recessions, wars, different governments, all sorts. Regardless of what folk tell you, "there's always something to cause anxiety!"
Dickens sussed it in the 1840s. “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”
So, if people and golf clubs try to do like Mr Mcawber tried... you have half a chance!
