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These eerie photos of deserted golf courses reveal a new normal in America

Mar 5, 2017, 20:12 IST

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Sarah Jacobs

Once a community staple in suburbs across America, the golf course is now a slowly dying breed.

Over 800 golf courses have shuttered across the US in the past decade, and data from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association has shown that millenials between the ages of 18 to 30 have a lack of interest in playing the game. From Las Vegas, Nevada to Mahwah, New Jersey, many courses are being replaced with housing developments.

We recently explored two closed golf courses in northern New Jersey, both of which are being turned into housing developments, to see firsthand what courses across the country look like as they become abandoned.

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