What makes golf, the most difficult game on earth, appealing to all ages

Golf is maddening, addictive, irritating, healthy and also fun...for all ages

Despite golf being the most difficult game on earth, why do more people, of all ages, play this ball game rather than any other in the world?  It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma (Churchill), but perhaps there is a key …. It is maddening, frustrating, challenging, wasteful of time, could encourage difficulty in counting, a maker and breaker of relationships, completely international in scope, not a couch potato game (like cricket) as one can play it until one is doddery (and beyond), makes one remember God and his (her) counterpart Satan, a true leveller and,