Golf is/was definitely hurting. Younger generation doesn't have the patience it requires. Plus it's really hard. Most younger people have no desire to try something they fail at, mostly spectacularly. That said we are busier than we've been since I've been here. Golf is one of the few things people can do right now just like the "old days" (pre covid).
I started working on a golf course at 20. The golf pro came to me one morning and said he fired the super, and it's all you now. I grew to love it. At 30 I became superintendent at a limited budget private club. At some point the management/membership "forgot" about me. The course was always ready, I hit budget, and when they did ask something of me I got it done. April to November seven days a week most of the time. The next two months would be spent in a deer stand, and the month of January in a duck blind. Then a couple of months just dicking around then back to work. All paid. Granted not what I could have made elsewhere but that's where having a wife that makes good money comes in handy.