(Golf News) SKoreans Prefer Golf Cafes to Courses (ABC News)

The soaring popularity of screen golf owes in much part to excessively expensive green fees in. The soaring popularity of screen golf owes in much part to excessively expensive green fees in Korea. Country club memberships that are considered major assets and traded at an officially recognized ‘membership market’ cost half a million to two million dollars. The so-called “screen golf cafés” are rising hot spots in South Korea, a nation fanatically in love with the sport. An estimated 200,000 Koreans play this virtual golf game every day, six times more than the number of golfers playing the real outdoor courses, according to the Korea Golf Association (KGA). The soaring popularity of screen golf owes much in part to prohibitively expensive green fees in Korea. read more

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