Originally Posted by
Godfather
Maybe the smaller population and popularity of hockey/winter sports here, maybe the short playing season in the majority of the country. But I think the biggest factor though has to be that major development in golfers comes at the collegiate level, which we don't fund anywhere near as well as you guys do with the NCAA.
I can't speak to lacrosse or curling, but for hockey we have leagues that run independent of school systems that do an incredible job at development (although the the NCAA is going to surpass the Canadian Junior programs soon, if it hasn't already). There's nothing like that to develop golfers here, so they basically have to get a US scholarship to have a chance at turning pro. It's the same with us and tennis. We like to take credit for our Canadian golfers and tennis players, but without US colleges accepting them we'd probably have nothing at all.