Any decent set of golf clubs is a few hundred dollars for a beginner. Shoes, golf balls, golf attire all add up to at least another couple of hundred dollars. Go to the golf course where a simple nine whole may be sixteen dollars a person. Driving range balls may go for about eight dollars for roughly fifty balls depending where you are. To golf every day becomes a serious expense. The same can be said for tennis where a nice racket, shoes, and outfit become pricy as well. In many areas there are not public tennis courts as one can find in the downtown San Mateo central park. Less Americans each day are losing the capability of enjoying some of these past times that Americans have enjoyed for years. The United States is not only diving deeper into debt, but losing some of the great American swagger it once had. While these sports may not be necessities, they are characteristics of a great nation. America may be down, but not out! If this nation spent less on military, and spent less time supporting the large corporations, then more of the public could enjoy the pricier sports. If more of the public stood up for economic equality, more of the public could enjoy what is making them feel less equal.
For now, show Andy Roddick and John Isner some love for representing America well so far in the tennis U.S. open!
2 comments:
I agree that American men tennis players are less favored than players such as Nadal, who is my personal favorite. However, I think Serena and Venus Williams are strong tennis players who are still fan favorites. Even so, I find it hard to believe that there is a correlation between the lagging economy and the number of top American sports players. Three or four years ago, before the Great Recession began, was there really a bigger number of top tennis or golf players? Sure, Roddick may have been a higher ranking player back in the day, but I doubt that the recession was what lowered his ranking. I do not think that the last three year suddenly made the number of American sports players diminish. If anything, I think that more intense training in other parts of the world has caused a slow decrease in top American players through the decades.
I agree its sad to see decrease in American tennis players but u got to think about the other countries how they are different from america as not as many countries have the luxury as we do in america like for example we have luxury to pick any job we want so people could spend less time doing sports and more time doing schooling in other countries some dont have the opportunities to go to school and the only way for them to become rich is to become a professional athlete so they might spend a lot more time practicing.
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