(07-16-2019, 08:43 PM)Mick Wrote: Baby boomer here. Played a lot of golf in high school (dad had a share at Pasatiempo), some golf in college, played all through my 20s a few times a month with my wife.
Interesting to hear our generational differences and similarities! I grew up working at a golf course every weekend and many weekdays in high school, so if anyone should have been a lifelong golfer, it's me. And the kids part I get. But the problems start much sooner than that for my generation. Almost all of us had jobs out of undergrad that required some combinations of travel or crushing hours that made 5-6-hour golf excursions improbable. Then most of us made cross-country moves for grad school, and then had to pay off grad-school debt, largely by living in places like NYC and SF that aren't amenable to much golfing. All that before any of us even considered kids; plus most of us were barely married by the end of our twenties!
It's interesting to realize how much of being a successful white-collar professional today (let alone married with kids) essentially demands a lifestyle that is antithetical to leaving room to pursue a sport like golf.
Maybe we can all start wildly successful startups by age 40 and then finally afford spend our mid-life crises on the links?