Wife played college golf. So many women’s golf scholarships go unclaimed especially at smaller non d1 schools. Definitely a good investment to have your daughters playing golf could turn in to a golf scholarship or even get their LPGA card.
Are you saying there are not enough US girls golfers to fill scholarships at D1, D2, and NAIA schools(these divisions have scholarships)?
Of course there are enough US girls golfers to fill those spots. The problem is that there arent enough good US girls golfers to fill those spots.
Some US girls golfers will also choose to stop playing rather than accept an NAIA scholarship due to overall cost. They could accept a partial NAIA scholarship(how they are commonly handled- broken up) to a $30k/year private small university that nobody outside of a region of a state has heard of, or they could go to an in state university and pay $9k/year. So the option is pay $15k-20k to a small school and play golf with amenities slightly nicer than large high schools, or pay $9k/year to attend a nationally ranked university.
Neither option is right or wrong, but it needs to be recognized that kids have to choose.
Meanwhile, Petra Sovenberg from Sweden would be 'out of state' for the public university and if she accepts the golf scholarship to the small NAIA school, she is actually saving money versus trying to attend the US public university.
As for it being a good investment to have girls play golf because it could turn into a scholarship or even an LPGA card- da17? The odds of getting an LPGA card are so small it isnt even worth discussing so it clearly isnt a good investment. Sure, they may become good enough to play golf in college on scholarship, but the odds of that are also quite small.
You have an curious view of what constitutes a good investment.