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The most common questions within the golf community over the past year have been: When will the pandemic golf boom end? How far before 2019 (the last “normal” year) are we going to be? Will we retain the golfers who started the game due to COVID-19 restrictions?
The good news is that rounds played are still well ahead of both 2020 and 2019 levels, and unless there is an unforeseen economic collapse and / or a catastrophic year in weather in 2022, golf is on a much better mark today. place than it was before. -pandemic.
The chart below indexes annual rounds played with 1999 as the basis, as this was the first year that Golf Datatech began collecting and projecting monthly rounds played. Rounds have played consistently lower trend in the United States since the turn of the century; however, it was like a big bucket of water with a small hole – a constant drip. Over the past 20 years, the rounds played were about 18 percent lower, such a tendency to lose a little less than 1 percent …
