Here are three problems facing the golf industry:
1.) Not attracting new customers
2.) High-tech equipment is rendering “short” golf courses obsolete
3.) Building and maintaining new golf courses is expensive
These problems can be eliminated once and forever with Canine Design: Divide golf courses in half: 50% for dogs, 50% for golf.
Bisect the fairway with a red line. One side is reserved for golfers; the other side is reserved for dogs to romp, hump, pee, or drop a deuce. When dog owners learn they can take their dogs to golf courses, you’ll be introducing the game to 77 MILLION PEOPLE! No other industry-sponsored initiative can match that claim.
High-tech drivers and balls have turned golf into a bomb-and-wedge game for low-handicappers and tour players. Canine Design puts the bite on this problem by reducing in half the landing area for tee shots. Strategy comes into play again by demanding accuracy off the tee. Players will be motivated to hit “their” side of the fairway. Failure to do so will
result in dogs grabbing stray golf balls and running away with them. The golfer must then re-tee for a 2-stroke penalty.
With “bomb-and-gouge” eliminated from the equation, golf course developers will no longer have to buy huge parcels of land. With half of the fairways devoted to dogs, you eliminate the need for pristine turf conditions. Huge cost savings are realized in terms of seeding, irrigation, fertilizer, mowing, shaping, and labor. (Note: it’s expected that golf course architects will not reduce their design fees.)
There will be the added costs of installing doggie-doo containers. But all in all, Canine Design will result in huge cost reductions … which will lower the cost of golf for consumers … which will increase participation in our great sport. Truly a woof-woof-win-win!
Canine Design can be retrofitted into existing golf courses, as shown in the following artist renderings of Pebble Beach Golf Links, TPC Sawgrass, and The Old Course at St. Andrews:
