McCord On Baby Boomers: "We supported all these clubs, and now there's nobody to tap us on the shoulder and take over"

Lots of interesting stuff in Cameron Morfit's interview of Gary McCord for Golf Magazine talking about health issues and golf on television.

And these two questions:

What's your take on the state of golf, big picture?

Golf is in a tenuous situation with the current socioeconomic climate. I'm at the end of the baby boomers. We supported all these clubs, and now there's nobody to tap us on the shoulder and take over our memberships because the game is too expensive, takes too long, and is too hard. People can't invest so much energy into something that's not giving them much in return. So how do you fill these clubs that are being depleted? That's a problem.

Driving around the Coachella Valley this week, all I could think was, who is going to buy all of these homes and memberships when these people die? Anyway, on Tiger:

Speaking of problems, do you think Tiger is happy?

If you look at any situation where guys become superstars in any field, they all eventually end up in their own prison, their own hellhole, and they peer out through the bars. You have to give up a lot to be that good at something. Some guys have a big prison and some guys have a tiny prison. He's in a real tiny cell. You feel sorry for him. He wants to be one of the guys.