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• There are 17,000 golf courses in the United States. I need the following information: -# of Courses per Region of Country -# of Courses per State -# of Courses Open Year Round vs. Those Closed Several Months -# or % of Multi Golf Course Owners vs. Single Course Ownership -# of Public Courses vs. # of Private Courses -Within Private Courses, # of % chargin 'high' membership/intiation fees, 'moderate' and/or 'low' fees and what those fees are -Within Public Courses, fee range to play course Partial Info is fine. Please give me source of information. ThankS!

• Answer:

  Hi chezleigh, After a long and extensive search, I have compiled the data you requested for golf courses in the US. As I mentioned before, besides the public, private and semi-private golf courses, you can also find resorts and military courses. These will be listed in the category named 'Others'. Following is Part 1 of your question. The number found after each region and sub-region is the total number of golf courses located there. The remainder of the answer is in xls format and can be downloaded from the url below. “Regions defined by the US Bureau of the Census” WEST – 2,831 Pacific: Alaska - California - Hawaii - Oregon - Washington (1,629) Mountain: Arizona – Colorado - Idaho - Montana - Nevada - New Mexico - Utah - Wyoming (1,202) MIDWEST – 5,298 West North Central: Iowa – Kansas – Minnesota – Missouri – Nebraska - North Dakota - South Dakota (1,800) East North Central: Illinois – Indiana – Michigan – Ohio – Wisconsin (3,498) NORTHEAST – 2,740 Middle Atlantic: Delaware – Maryland - New Jersey - New York - Pennsylvania (1,880) New England: Connecticut – Maine – Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Rhode Island – Vermont (860) SOUTH – 5,455 West South Central: Arkansas – Louisiana – Oklahoma – Texas (1,392) East South Central: Alabama – Kentucky – Mississippi – Tennessee (1,025) South Atlantic: Florida – Georgia - North Carolina - South Carolina – Virginia - West Virginia (3,038) TOTAL – 16,324 ========================================== The excel file can be found here: http://www.darkfriends.net/~misc/USGolfCourses.xls You may want to download it and save it. ========================================== Sources used for research: GolfGuideWeb http://www.golfguideweb.com/ Golf Link http://www.golflink.com/destinations/golf-courses/index.shtml Golf Caddie http://caddie.know-where.com/golfcaddie/region/ World Golf http://www.worldgolf.com/courses/unitedstates/usa.html Net Caddie http://www.netcaddie.com/ ========================================== Search words used: US “golf course” I hope this information is helpful. If you have any questions regarding my answer, please don’t hesitate to ask before rating it. Best regards, rainbow-ga