Why nobody goes to golf museums
There's unfortunately a pretty simple answer.
Given the option of playing golf or going to a golf museum, golfers will always choose playing golf. This is why the museums of baseball, football, basketball, hockey and NASCAR attract 200,000-350,000 visitors a year while the USGA golf museum in Far Hills, N. J.
, gets 5,000. Even the World Golf Hall of Fame Museum in Pinehurst, N. C.
, has only 25,000 in attendance. (It recently moved from St. Augustine, Fla.
, because nobody went there. When his close friend Fred Couples was inducted, even Davis Love III wouldn’t drive two hours from his home in Georgia for the ceremony. ) The most popular sports emporium in the world is the FC Barcelona Museum with upwards of 2 million visitors a year, which is understandable because soccer is the global sport.
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