"It's a sport that can be played from the age of 3 to the age of 80, and it's also a sport of frustration education, and it's a parent-child sport that allows a family of three to participate together." Blue sky and white clouds, beautiful scenery, fresh and pure air, immersed in it, all the troubles are swept away. Crescent Moon said.
Playing golf has become a way of life for Guangzhou citizens, their sons and husbands, and has gradually become a habit.
Speaking of "Tiger" Woods, many people are familiar with it; speaking of Feng Shanshan, many Guangdong golf enthusiasts are no strangers. But what many people don't know is that with the reform and opening up, the national strength is strong, the people's pockets are becoming more and more solid, and the little white ball is also strengthening our bodies, relaxing our mentality, and pleasing our mood...
The purse is solid, and the golf is pulled into life
The sport of golf, there is no table tennis, badminton, the score of the staggered, ups and downs of the fierce, nor football, basketball that kind of tit-for-tat, sword-rattling confrontation, athletes wear straight trousers, T-shirts, and blue sky and white clouds, flowers and greenery intertwined, constitute a pleasing picture.
However, golf in China was once labeled "noble sport", "elite sports", in this regard, Guangzhou Gaoxinghui youth golf platform Yin Zong said in an interview with the Yangcheng Evening News reporter: "In the past, golf was said to be 'elite sport', not because it is expensive, but because of its self-discipline, self-esteem, courtesy and integrity connotations. Around 2000, with the gradual promotion of this sport in China, especially the first generation of parents who played golf felt the charm of this sport and began to involve their children, youth golf began to flourish and gradually popularized. ”
It was in this context that Crescent Moon and her son Steven began to become obsessed with golf. Yue Yue said that she would play with her girlfriends whenever she had time, while Steven maintained a rhythm of two days a game and a practice on the weekend during school, and the winter and summer vacations were basically required daily, and she would also participate in golf winter camps and summer camps. "The child usually lives in school, and the close contact with golf on the weekend is the time he is most looking forward to." He would finish all his homework early on Friday night and wipe his high club clean. Four or five hours of playing time is especially helpful to close the parent-child relationship between us and our children, and the family of three often plays together, and the relationship is getting more and more harmonious. I think golf is a great way to connect with friends and kids."
Golf winter camps and summer camps in the mouth of the crescent moon range from 300-1000 yuan per day, and the tuition fees of golf competitive classes participating in weekdays are 39800 yuan, including 50 class hours. Wanyue believes that Guangzhou families with a monthly income of more than 30,000 yuan, especially only-child families, can generally afford it.
Mr. Tang, 53, who has only played golf for 6 months, fell in love with the sport, and told the Yangcheng Evening News reporter: "I think that the improvement of comprehensive national strength is synchronized with the development of golf. For example, most of the golf courses are built in remote places on the outskirts of the city, you want to play a game, it is convenient to drive, which was difficult to achieve in general twenty or thirty years ago, and now almost every family has a car, and driving to the course is a very common thing. In addition, with the improvement of national quality, parents with high education and broadening horizons have also begun to let their children play golf, which used to seem distant, and now it is getting closer and closer to everyone's life. ”
Mr. Tang said that he has always liked to challenge difficult things, and the subtlety of the sport of high ball is that he can both compete with others and improve himself, and the biggest "enemy" is actually himself. Mr. Tang enjoyed it and was very happy: "I plan to let my daughter, who is a sophomore in high school this year, play a dozen and make progress little by little in the training." ”
Old Lee began playing golf at the end of 1997, and he loves the lush green, quiet and comfortable of the course. Playing with his old friend Xinzhi on the green grass is the highest realm in his eyes, playing with a relaxed heart. To this day, Lao Li still remembers his first "one-shot hole": "At that time, it was at least 200 meters away, swinging a blow, the white ball 'whizzed' to the flagpole, landed on the green - the caddie told me to enter!" I couldn't believe it, so I quickly ran up the green and saw the little white ball lying obediently in the hole. At that moment I was ecstatic, and the happiness stirred in my heart, until I couldn't sleep with excitement until the evening. ”
According to Lao Li, he has played at Guangzhou Luhu Golf Club for many years, with a lifetime membership fee of about 300,000 yuan, while ordinary members usually have a single-day price of 900 yuan. "Luhu Golf Club can accommodate about 150 people a day, as long as it is not pouring heavy rain, it is full every day, and the supply is in short supply." On average, Lao Li spends about 50,000 or 60,000 yuan a year on golf, and when he can play in Southeast Asia, Japan or South Korea before the epidemic, the cost will be about 180,000 yuan. Lao Li also told reporters a data: Americans only score about 10% of the par within 100 par, but our country is more than 30%, "which shows that domestic golfers are playing to the end, because only continuous tempering can reach such a level." "This data also proves the continuous enthusiasm of domestic golfers to participate."
Luo Jiawei, 56, began playing golf at the age of 27 and, after living in Taipei, China, began working as a golf coach in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in 2013. The reason why I went to the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen to show my fists, on the one hand, is to hope that my daughter who plays golf will receive training on a more complete and sound platform, on the other hand, I have insight into the huge market and development space of mainland golf, "Now there are more and more people playing golf, and the atmosphere is getting better and better, which is an intuitive embodiment of the improvement of the economic strength of the people on the mainland, after all, playing golf not only has economic conditions to be met, but also has time, and two points are indispensable." Luo Jiawei believes that the weather conditions in Guangzhou and Shenzhen are also conducive to the development of golf, and the future is definitely full of potential.
In the Guangzhou Lanpeng Golf Training Ground, the temperature plummeted on the day of the interview, but the reporter saw that the crowd at the front desk was still endless, and for the guests who kept coming to consult, the service staff could only helplessly inform that it was full. According to the person in charge of the Lanpeng Training Ground, after the epidemic situation in Guangzhou gradually eased, the number of golf players soared, no matter how remote the course was, it was basically full, "Compared with two years ago, the turnover of major golf courses in Guangzhou has achieved a growth of 30% to 50%, and the scene is hot." I've heard that a few stadiums have gone up in price this year, but they still can't stop the enthusiasm of their golfers."
The "threshold" is lowered, and the price point is becoming more and more close to the people
More than a decade ago, the high membership fee of hundreds of thousands of yuan made people discouraged from golf, and the golf clubs that were artificially inflated were also expensive. Nowadays, the "threshold" for playing golf has gradually decreased, and the spending power of many ordinary citizens can afford the membership fee, single-game price and training cost. The "people-friendly" price is also one of the reasons for the popularity of this sport.
The price list seen by the reporter in the Lanpeng Golf Training Ground shows that the highest price of the lighting position on weekdays is 128 yuan / 100 balls, the holiday is 158 yuan / 100 balls, and the price of the real grass position is 188 yuan / 100 balls. If you calculate it, less than 200 yuan can have a few hours of intimate contact with golf, and the cost is not enough for a meal for ordinary citizens to have a meal with relatives and friends. "You used to have to be a member to be eligible to play, but now you don't have to be a member, and the price is comparable to playing a game of tennis and bowling." Mr. Tang quickly made a comparison.
On the cost of golf clubs and other equipment, Luo Jiawei told reporters: "The most expensive golf club I remember once sold for 800,000 yuan, but now I want a well-made handmade golf club, tens of thousands of yuan can buy a special favorite." The reporter learned that at present, a golf club is between 500 yuan and 10,000 yuan, and it is frugal.
For the cost of youth golf training, Mr. Yin of Gao Xinghui also hopes that everyone can change some "misunderstandings": "In the past, everyone thought that the cost of letting children learn golf was ridiculously expensive, but now we are 10 years old before the youth golf enlightenment class, the class fee is only about 300 yuan, and the teaching focus of this stage is on the development of golf interests." After the age of 10, the intermediate stage course costs more than 600 yuan, and this stage pays more attention to the improvement of children's golf technical ability. ”
Mr. Yin introduced that the package fee of Gao Xinghui Enlightenment Class is 8600 yuan and 16 class hours; the upgrading class is 15800 yuan and 32 class hours; and the elite class is 59800 yuan and 60 class hours. Yin finally made an account, the current cost of young people to learn golf is comparable to piano, ballet and other arts training, this price should be in line with the public's psychological expectations and the level of affluent family income. It is reported that Gao Xinghui currently has schools in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Zhaoqing and other places, and there are more than 200 small students in one school of Lanpeng Golf Training Center alone.
According to Mr. Yin, the national golf youth tournament, the "Young Youth Cup", is held in Guangzhou about 40 to 60 times a year. There are at least 100 applicants for 11 provincial competitions a year, and at least 150 applicants for 7 municipal competitions a year. The regular entry fee is between $300 and $500, in addition to which a playing fee and a playing fee are payable for each event, which varies from $300 to $800 depending on the geographical location of the course.
Wan yue told reporters that Steven will participate in the "Young Youth Cup" as long as he has time, and the cost of each competition is about 1,000 yuan.
Lao Li participated with the South China University of Technology team last year and won the 12th China University Alumni "Hanlin Cup" Golf Classic Championship, with more than 5,000 alumni from nearly 60 college teams participating. The annual "Hanlin Cup" lasts about 8 months, each team has about 30 people, the total cost of the team is about 750,000 yuan, and the total number of games to be played is 25. 25,000 yuan per capita can play 25 games, which is not a burden for golf enthusiasts.
"High ball connotation", a powerful assistant for character development
Golf, golf, consists of the English initials of Green, Oxygen, Light and Friendship. Its rules are steeped in the etiquette of raising hands and feet; its competitions contain the style of courtesy and the connotations of self-discipline, self-esteem and integrity.
Mr. Yin described golf as an outdoor green Go: "Each player's physical condition, personality, swing, and hitting are different, they all have their own unique side, where different people will play completely different lines." Process and result, test your imagination, self-planning ability and self-management ability. ”
Crooked Moon's son began to play golf from the age of 6, And Crescent Moon said: "Playing golf will experience a lot of setbacks, such as bad mood or weather effects, no one can help you on the field, if you want to play the ball well, you can only do it through self-regulation." This has cultivated his independent personality and exercised his self-management awareness more and more strongly. ”
Yue Yue told reporters that when her son was six years old, he had already gone to Shandong to participate in the winter camp, "I remember participating in the 'Young Youth Cup' last year, because the children did not achieve too good results in the competition before, so we and the children were natural to rank." As a result, in the group C competition, he won a very good place, which stimulated his enthusiasm for playing, because he enjoyed the pleasure of receiving honors, so he took the initiative to ask for registration in large and small competitions. I think this kind of immersive education is conducive to the growth of children, and let children understand the truth in sports. ”
The ball is also like the character, Lao Li told reporters, in order to understand a person, you can ask him to play a round of golf: "From the characteristics shown on the course, you can know whether this person is calculating, whether he is trustworthy - such as playing in the bunker, whether the bunker is flattened after playing?" The ball lands in a corner of the court, no one can see it, will you move without permission? Will you truthfully report the number of poles? If someone makes a mistake, will they laugh at the other person and so on. In addition to having a humble gentleman's style, Lao Li believes that golf also has a correction function, "it can change people's impatient personality, calmly forget the previous mistakes, and focus on the next shot."
Luo Jiawei commented that golf is "borrowing a ball and practicing the heart". "Playing a high ball seems simple, but it seems difficult, why can a cockroach that runs around can hit it, but a small white ball that does not move can sometimes not hit? This is actually a question that can be pondered in depth."
Mr. Yan also feels the same way, "Playing golf, you want undistracted concentration and self-confidence, you must not be impetuous, otherwise you may not even be able to drive the ball." This sport is more about competing with yourself, challenging yourself again and again. Mr. Yan believes that with the popularity of golf, the public has become more and more rational about this sport, and the economic take-off achieved after the reform and opening up of the mainland has continuously helped everyone expand their horizons, and more people have the financial resources and energy to invest in golf. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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Written | Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Chai Zhi
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