Categories: golf, golf course, National Golf Foundation, Play Golf America’s Free Lesson Month

Golf enthusiasts, lovers and addicts alike – need not worry about the saturation and overgrowth popularity on the greens. Dissimilar to other sports that have caught on over the year, auto racing, soccer and tennis, golf remains an elite sport, – per se. Review these compelling facts, trends and statistics on the game of golf:

• Twenty-eight million Americans are profiled as golf enthusiasts and only 14 million are deemed a “core players.”

• According to the National Golf Foundation, “core golf players are the golfers who play a minimum of eight times a year. Avid golfers are pegged as players who tee off more than 25 round a year.

• Over the past decade, the number of women taking up golf has grown by more than 35 percent.

• High-end golf courses are more expensive than daily-fee and municipal courses.



• Many core golfers assert that they would play more often if the cost of the course time were reduced.

• In 2006, the volume of closed golf courses outnumbered one that opened. (It was a first-time.

• Annually Approximately, three million people try golf. Of those newcomers, not many stick to the game.

• About 600,000 people are employed in the golf industry.

• Consumer golf retention rates are hurt by the complexity, time and cost of improving one’s golf game up to par.

• In May of 2006, the initiative, www.playgolfamerica.com/" target="_blank"> Play Golf America’s Free Lesson Month commanded significant success and attention, 21 percent participants.

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