Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like good competition, but I like competing against myself...I love golf more than anything and I'm horrendous at it." he continues. In other sports, "I enjoyed being on teams more than winning...
...Golfing's increasing popularity, however, may drive it into the rough. "I see a trend toward people without sufficient education about the game of golf who have little respect for it or for other people on the course," says Dean Lind, the golf pro who operates the municipal course in Wilmette, Ill. Result: the average time required to play an 18-hole course often shoots up from less than four hours to five hours or more. Other players do not seem to understand that golfing is meant to get them away from the office. "There is nothing as disturbing...
More troubling, there are not enough golf courses to meet demand. The National Golf Foundation estimates that 4,000 new courses would have to be built in the next decade to meet the crush. But high real estate and development costs kept the number of new courses to 211 last year. On average, once the land is bought, it takes $4 million to $5 million more to build a course. Shortages are most severe in Southern California and in the Northeast. Most golf-course development over the past few years has been tied to residential communities, where well-maintained links...
Club fees have jumped as well -- although nowhere near the staggering levels paid in golf-crazy Japan (the most expensive: $2.5 million for the Koganei Country Club near Tokyo). In Highland Park, Ill., for example, initiation fees at the Exmoor Country Club have risen from $8,000 to $25,000 in the past five years. Memberships at some private clubs in the Los Angeles area cost more than $50,000, and $2,500 annually thereafter. But so far, golf aficionados are willing to pay those prices. Fore...
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