What if Golf Were as Easy as House Bowling?

In the wake of my post yesterday about the PBA's financial woes, I've been following some discussions in various online bowling forums about why bowling in general and the PBA in particular are struggling. Some believe that one of the reasons for this is that bowling has gotten too easy with walled house shots and high tech bowling balls and that if bowling were made more challenging and people were encouraged to take up the challenge, we would see rapidly growing interest in amateur and professional bowling, and both would prosper.

One person likens how monotonously easy bowling on house shots has become to the following hypothetical golf scenario:

"If golf courses were built with massive 30 foot walls to deflect bad drives back online, and linoleum fairways so all drives rolled out to 300+ years, and plexi-glass over water hazards and bunkers and the greens were concave so all shots went toward the hole and then the cup was the size of a manhole cover... and unskilled players could score like professionals... I GUARANTEE YOU the passion and commitment level golfers have would be different..."

Do you think this guy has a point? Do you think that if bowling centers started putting out sport shots and enticing their patrons to take up the challenge of mastering them in practice, league, and tournament play, they wouldn't turn people off to bowling the way they fear but bring them into the fold or back into it filled with passion to take up and conquer the challenge, and bowling on all levels would prosper?