Selfishly I would like to see more young men of color have access to caddying- and more young people in general have access to caddying- not sitting on a bench. Caddying helps build work ethic/constitution, punctuality, maturity, interpersonal skills, problem solving and access to positive adults while relying on your own strength and mental acuity to execute your responsibility while working in the great outdoors.
Walking golf creates more sustainability for the long term as it requires less carts, cart maintenance, cart storage, cart usage, cart traffic and wear, cart expense.
Walking golf promotes good health- the reason caddies exist are to carry the bag and allow the golfer to play without the stress of carrying a bag.
A younger caddie corps that yield a lower fee structure would encourage the growth of the youth caddie as whole.
Where in the heck are you man? What are your numbers, your data about the lack of young (13-21) year old caddies in your district? I have worked in that very district as a staffer, caddie, caddie master (one-time President of the Westchester CM's in fact) for close to 40 years and know this place... your account is claiming a problem that doesn't exist or is extrapolated from a small sample of experiences you've swelled into a magnus dream, requiring your solution.
...And minority youth? What opportunities are being denied? What are you saying...have you been to a Westchester/Fairfield club in a season recently...? Have you seen the annual Spring Caddie Academies (as many as 5 of em all over the Met since 2005), which in its day used to see 75 to over 120 (at Westchester CC)? Have you seen a recent list of CSA Turnesa Scholarship winners...
Hispanic, Hispanic American, African-American and Caribbean-American kids ARE the ones who represent that age group in that area...they are from the color-centric areas Yonkers and Mount Vernon and New Rochelle and the Bronx Work, advancement, connections to education and opportunity for youth and youth of color...it's happening dude, you're in the building, but the party has moved a few floors above you.
And this background ethos, that the adult caddies are somehow holding back the kids on the bench...bullshit... in the first place its usually those adult caddies (also of color and also from Yonkers, Mt Vernon, Bronx, etc) who are spreading the word and pointing those kids to the course and the training in the first place...and if you bring or recommend a youth, its likely the CM will attach that youth to you for observation.
I'll tell you 4 things to solve before you pursue your ill-considered initiatives much further.
1. Find a way to get a youth to the course before 6:45 on Fri-Sun weekends, like another lesson youth should learn, early bird gets the worm.
2. Find a way to get a youth to commit to 7/8ths of the summer Fri-Mon ahead of time...like the commentators say about football players...the only ability that means anything is AVAIL-ability
3. Find a way to get a youth to appreciate the one value you failed to mention...
patience...patience to inure the hard lesson that unlike all the magic-wand-I'll-protect-you exhortations to gratification of parents on behalf of their children...doesn't come as so as you want it or judge yourself ready for it.
4. Find a way to stop members from asking/begging/hoping THEIR caddie master to set their own boy up at the course next door...that's one less opportunity for a youth of lesser means and greater need... and the practice can be occasionally rampant.
What's worst of all...
Pro... is you took this horrible fn' crisis and in another horrible fn' social media thread devoted to discussing which stupid, meaningless customs of a game would suffer after this, you went strolling down an ignorant naive path that
nearly hoped for people who will be and are in grave threadbare consequences already to be utterly swallowed up for a youth corps and caddie programs which are in superb health for all the traditional and technical aspects needed in this area.
In future talk about your specific club or a named club for whom you can provide real evidence.