{"id":199,"date":"2012-02-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:01:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T18:01:37","slug":"could-future-of-golf-rely-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/could-future-of-golf-rely-on-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Could The Future of Golf Rely On Video Games?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7228\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/video-controller-336657_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7228\" src=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/video-controller-336657_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Can video games about golf drum-up interest?\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/video-controller-336657_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/video-controller-336657_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/video-controller-336657_1280-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/video-controller-336657_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can video games drum-up interest in golf?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I grew up playing video games.\u00a0 I distinctly remember me and my friends from the neighborhood gathering at each others houses to play Atari, Intellivision and Coleco as soon as one of us got a new game.\u00a0 I remember the craze when Nintendo first hit stores, and\u00a0I remember being the first of my friends to have it.\u00a0 It was like Christmas for everyone in my neighborhood!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>All these years later, things aren&#8217;t so different.\u00a0 I still\u00a0play games\u00a0myself sometimes, although\u00a0my Playstation 3 is used\u00a0equally as much by me for Netflix and Blu-Ray movies.\u00a0 But my kids&#8230;that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n<p>They love the video games just as much as I did when\u00a0I was a kid.\u00a0 I have three\u00a0different gaming systems in my house right now, not including anything portable.\u00a0 Seems silly, right?\u00a0 Well, not really.\u00a0 Each of them serves a bit\u00a0of a different purpose.\u00a0 Besides a game system, my PS3, as mentioned earlier, is a\u00a0Blu-Ray player and Netflix streamer.\u00a0 The Wii is for the more\u00a0&#8220;active&#8221; games and is probably the most fun of the three systems.\u00a0 The XBox 360 is pretty much strictly for gaming.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ll tell you what else the games are &#8211; the Wii specifically, was used as a tool to get my boys 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myself which is why\u00a0I bought the system to begin with.\u00a0 And guess what&#8230;it helped!<\/p>\n<p>My boys had no interest at all in watching golf on TV.\u00a0 And even though\u00a0I play golf, they didn&#8217;t really seem to\u00a0share my interest.\u00a0 That is, until they swung the controller on the Wii.\u00a0 Somehow, that seemed to open the door.\u00a0 Next thing you know, they want to go to a real driving range.\u00a0 Soon after, my oldest uses his birthday money to buy a starter set\u00a0of clubs.\u00a0 The next season, we&#8217;re out on the course.\u00a0 Now, my youngest boy is interested in buying his own set of clubs!\u00a0 And I have to say, a golf video game is partially responsible for this.<\/p>\n<p>So what could this mean for the future of this sport?\u00a0 Could golf video games help influence kids to pick\u00a0up a real\u00a0driver rather than just a virtual one?\u00a0 Should the USGA or PGA\u00a0take this into consideration and do more to work these games 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