The number of golf rounds played nationwide was up 13 percent year over year with November in spite of program closures that sharply affected the market in the spring of 2020, according to market researcher Golf Datatech. Rounds were up nearly 57 percent in November, the sixth directly month in which year-over-year improvements were larger than the month before, as well as the sport’s uptick has the destination golf community, including excursion operators as well as travel advisers who offer golf, seeing new long-lasting chance for the socially distanced sport in the age of COVID-19.
“It’s outdoors. You can physically distance. You can do it as couples. You can do it with friends. You can do it alone,” Kris Strauss, senior vice president of sales as well as advertising for Troon Golf, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based business that handles 57 everyday charge programs in North America, told travel Weekly‘s Robert Silk. “If you can’t socially distance on 120 to 150 acres, you just like to be close to people.”
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