NGF Report Reaction Rebutted By PGA Of America CEO

The PGA Of America's Pete Bevacqua wasn't kidding when he told Matt Adams that golf needs to push back more. A week later he responds to Brian Costa's WSJ story on the National Golf Foundation findings which saw a dip participants.

Costa took the position that the retention issue in golf is the fault of facilities not making players feel welcome.

Bevacqua countered. GolfDigest.com posted his entire reply (a letter version was printed in the WSJ).

Some headlines about the NGF study focused on a drop in golf participation from 24.7 million to 24.1 million. While this number is disappointing, it falls well within the statistical margin of error for the study, which was plus or minus 800,000 golfers, meaning it very well could be due to normal measurement variations.