Thus, 10-15 years ago when America was at the height of its economic prosperity, America had a significantly larger percentage of the population playing golf than the combined international community.
This provided America with a far larger pool of golfers from which to extract talent than was available to the international community.
However, in the past 10-15 years that has changed.
Economically, the world has flattened out.
Countries such as Ireland, Korea, Australia, India and South Africa have experienced unprecedented economic growth in the past 10-15 years and the prosperity and spending power of their populations has increased tenfold.
Again, golf is a game typically enjoyed by the wealthier segments of the population, and as wealth and prosperity became more widespread in the countries mentioned, so did the number of young kids afforded the luxury of playing golf.
This has increased the overall pool of international golfers, to the point where the combined pool has caught up and possibly surpassed that of American golfers.
On top of the international golf community growing by leaps and bounds, the middle class in America has been drastically shrinking over the past 10-15 years—taking away an entire chunk of the golfing community.
In America ,it is astronomically expensive to join a country club. A country club offers young golfers the best opportunity to practice and work on their games at superior golf courses with impeccable practice facilities.
Children whose family belongs to a country club are given the opportunity to practice whenever they want and for however long they want. But, this is quite obviously a luxury only available to the upper-middle class and wealthy echelons of the population.
Public courses in America have also become quite expensive.
A round of golf at a decent public course can cost anywhere between $50-$120 per round.
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