{"id":40043,"date":"2025-08-02T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40043\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:23:11","slug":"meet-the-gen-z-ers-making-golf-cool-younger-people-are-coming-in-and-things-are-going-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40043\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Gen Z-ers making golf cool: \u2018Younger people are coming in and things are going to change\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nLong considered an old man\u2019s game, recent years have seen a resurgence in the sport among young people. We find out what\u2019s driving Gen Z to the green\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Golf influencer Kim O&#8217;Neill on the rise of Gen Z-ers taking up the sport  <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Shauna McIntyre was in her teens, she\u2019d spend weekends on the golf course in Rathfarnham, Dublin, either with her parents or her one other friend who enjoyed the sport, Stephanie Glennon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cWe used to laugh, \u2018Well, we know we\u2019ll be first or second in the girls\u2019 competition today anyway,\u2019 because we were the only two playing,\u201d says 28-year-old McIntyre, who together with Glennon co-founded the women\u2019s clothing brand AWGO Golf. \u201cNow we have a group chat with 15 girls our age that we play with regularly, and in our club, there\u2019s even more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long considered an old man\u2019s game, recent years have seen a resurgence in the sport among young people.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,23129,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-40043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-meadhbh-mcgrath","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}