The number of rounds played at U.S. golf facilities during the first half of this year was down by 9.7 percent from the number posted in 2012.
Every type of golf facility – private courses, daily fee courses, resort courses, municipal courses – showed a decline in play, according to PGA PerformanceTrak, and the industry’s overall revenues were down by 6.9 percent. Only six states, five of them western states, managed to register increases in the number of rounds played.
“It is clear the below-average weather at the start of the typical golf season had an impact on year-to-date performance,” the group’s June newsletter concludes.
