Golf Smarter Premium number 523, published on January 21, 2016.

The Internet is Killing Golf with author and teacher Rory Hughes.

This is Golf Smarter Premium.

Here's your host, Fred Green.

Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Rory.

Thank you, Fred. Thank you for having me. It's great to have you on. I was so excited to catch you because when I saw your article online, the internet is killing golf. I know that you write for Golf Chicago Magazine, and was that where you initially wrote this

for?

Yes, originally, yes.

Because it was flying all over the place, and got to love the interwebs, because this thing,

when I found it, it was on Medium.com?

Yes.

Okay. So do they get your permission for that, or what's the deal it was on Medium.com? Yes. Okay.

So do they get your permission for that, or what's the deal?

Well, Medium is a, it's kind of an online platform that I post my stuff because

Golf Chicago's online platform is all PDF.

So I want another place to get it out there. But at medium, you can

track views and reads and whatnot. And that one just somehow, like you said, struck a nerve

with a bunch of people. I think there were 18 to 20,000 hits on it or something like that.

Congratulations. That's awesome. I knew there was something there. I mean, there's enough. We talk enough about what the internet is doing to us at large. And it was just something that was kind of in my brain with the game of golf. So, yeah, it struck a nerve with some people. Clearly. I'm glad to found it. Good to meet you. Great to meet you, too, buddy. Great to meet you. And congratulations on Samuel. I know you got a little baby at home. Yes, yes. That's why I'm holed up down here in the basement so he doesn't interrupt us. And I thought you were in the penthouse of a, I can't tell you're in a basement. You didn't need to say that. Yeah, yeah. It's a nice basement, though, I must say. It's pretty flush. So what prompted this article? What got you thinking this way to make you say, you know what? I know it's killing it. Because, you know, everyone's talked about, as you say, golf is too hard, golf is too expensive. It takes too long, you know, and ever since the

tiger effect has gone downhill, which I still think is the tiger effect, actually.

You know, it peaked at a certain point and there were building golf courses like crazy,

and then they stopped building golf courses and everything changed.

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