Aging & Wisdom Quote by Karrie Webb

Karrie Webb’s line has the calm assurance of someone who’s watched a sport survive every supposed turning point. “As popular as it ever has been” is a deliberately steadying claim: not a victory lap, not a panic response to hand-wringing about ratings or attention spans. It’s the voice of an athlete who’s lived through cycles of hype and neglect and learned that real growth rarely looks dramatic up close.

The repetition does a lot of quiet work. “It continues to grow as it does all around the world” sounds almost redundant, but that’s the point: she’s building momentum through insistence, turning a defensible observation into a broader narrative of inevitability. It’s also an argument for legitimacy. For women’s golf in particular, popularity is often treated like a temporary mood rather than an earned position. Webb counters that with a metric that can’t be dismissed as a local fad: global spread.

The subtext is strategic optimism. Athletes and ambassadors are often asked to justify their sport’s relevance, and Webb sidesteps the trap of defensiveness. She doesn’t cite numbers, star power, or a single marquee event. She frames growth as a baseline condition - something happening “around the world” regardless of any one tour, sponsor, or media cycle. It’s a reminder that the center of gravity in sports culture keeps shifting outward, and that the healthiest version of popularity isn’t a spike; it’s a slow, widening footprint.