The National Golf Course Owners Association and the National Golf Foundation came together in 2002 to accurately measure the number of golf rounds played in the United States. Information received from nearly 2,426 U.S. facilities (over 15 percent of the county’s total number) was employed to accurately gauge the number of rounds golfers enjoyed in 2001—approximately 520 million.

The study also supported the hypothesis that golfers report playing a somewhat larger number of rounds than they actually did (with past, consumer-data driven studies estimating about 580 million rounds a year). For the year, 2001 saw relatively little shift in rounds played vis-à-vis 2000. Learn much more by downloading the complete report.


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