{"id":1153,"date":"2013-02-28T18:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonypioppi.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2013-02-28T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:12:08","slug":"golf-is-on-the-upswing-more-courses-closed-than-opened-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/blog\/1153\/golf-is-on-the-upswing-more-courses-closed-than-opened-in-2012","title":{"rendered":"NGF: More Golf Courses Closed than Opened in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We keep hearing that the golf industry is growing and that the bottom of the near-decade-long downward spiral has been reached. Not according to the latest numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2013\/02\/LR-course-closed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1154\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2013\/02\/LR-course-closed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>The National Golf Foundation, in a press release, announced that 13.5 new golf courses (defined as 18-hole equivalents) opened in 2012 while 154.5 courses were shuttered. This is the seventh year in a row that more courses closed than opened in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The NGF said 8.5 daily fee layouts opened while 130 more went out of business. On the municipal side 1.5 opened and 8.5 closed, meaning a total of 139 public-access courses failed. Two of the daily fee layouts that opened were at the Streamsong (Fla.) golf resort and spa with its Ben Crenshaw-Bill Coore and Tom Doak designs. Green fees are $175 a round not including cart or caddie. Hamburgers in the restaurant are $17.<\/p>\n<p>On the private side, 3.5 courses opened, and 15.5 ceased operation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We keep hearing that the golf industry is growing and that the bottom of the near-decade-long downward spiral has been&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/blog\/1153\/golf-is-on-the-upswing-more-courses-closed-than-opened-in-2012\" title=\"ReadNGF: More Golf Courses Closed than Opened in 2012\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2980,3729,3916,21],"tags":[742262,2978,494,601,315],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-golf-travel","category-kempersports","category-blog","tag-streamsong","tag-national-golf-foundation","tag-tom-doak","tag-ben-crenshaw","tag-bill-coore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}