NGF’s Senior Director of Data & Analytics Clark Brown detailed the “equilibrium” that currently exists in the U.S. golf course supply landscape and examines whether the green grass market is entering a new phase of stability.

We delve into what trends are revealed by the past 100 course openings and closings, including where new development is most prevalent, and expound on the perceptions of the current “Short Course movement” within the game.

Importantly, this leads to a discussion of “The Missing Middle,” the gulf that exists for those new participants seeking to bridge the gap between off-course forms of the game and the standard-length golf course that comprises most of U.S. supply, and how the industry can lean-in.