Edward,
I used to think the same thing about Pickleball - it is for older people and not for tennis players. I was very wrong. Young players are gravitating to the sport in crazy numbers. Courts that used to be filled with retirees, now are booked with players of all ages. Many tennis players have taken up the game once they tried it. Google Pickleball and you won’t see 60 year olds pop up
Quinn,
Love the idea. Some good things take time and a visionary to get it going.
Craig,
The game is hard for most everyone regardless of how great the equipment.
You think we have a “perceived problem”. What do you recommend I tell the owner of a public golf course who can’t let the local high school/college kids hit drivers or woods of any kind on his range because many were flying the ball 300 plus yards over the 50 foot high net and onto a road creating all kinds of safety issues
There is no need or benefit to the game for the ball to go that far. No one has yet to state any real benefits for golf of having the ball go so far. All it has done is force courses to continue to get longer and longer, cost more and take longer to play.
I know this is very old topic/argument but I am talking about a “radical” change to distance - a paradigm shift. Very much like Tennis to Pickleball.
My prediction is Pickleball will overtake Tennis in popularity at all ages in the next five to ten years. Could even be faster. We can’t build courts fast enough. The same could one day happen for these kind of world class half length golf courses. We might not be able to build them fast enough to meet demand
But just like with tennis courts being converted to Pickleball courts, there would be a huge opportunity to renovate existing golf courses to high quality “half length courses” or whatever we decide to call them.
Thomas,
I will take a look at your thread. Thanks.