The outbreak of COVID-19 demanded rapid social change, and the leisure sports industry was no exception to such change. This study compared and analyzed the golf and home training industries, which are growing despite the quarantine guidelines restricting participation in leisure sports, from the perspective of the Veblen effect and the Bandwagon effect with existing leisure sports. A total of 307 online and offline questionnaires were collected with voluntary participation, and the demographic information of survey respondents, validity and reliability of measurement tools, and one-way multivariate analysis of variance were statistically analyzed using SPSS 23.0 version. Significant differences in the three groups (golf, home training, and popular leisure sports) that went through the process of segmenting survey respondents according to the participating leisure sports events were statistically confirmed in the factors of the Veblen effect and Bandwagon effect. As a result, mean scores of golf participation group were relatively higher than that of other groups from three of the five factors (a) individuality pursuit factors, (b) high-priced pursuit factors, and (c) famous/media imitation factors. This was an important result of confirming how golf is perceived by participants in the leisure sports industry, and it was judged to be an empirical analysis of the recent steep growth of the golf industry.