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The golf industry can’t share this news often or enthusiastically enough: Golf isn’t dead.
Roughly 37 million people played golf in 2020, or 8% more than in 2019, according to the National Golf Foundation (NGF). But that isn’t all foursomes heading out to the course to shoot 18 holes.
While the number of on-course golfers grew 2% to 24.8 million, that’s about the same number that were hacking up courses in 2014. Golf’s biggest growth is coming from off-course activity like driving ranges and simulators.
“We are introducing more people to the game of golf, as the majority of those who visit Topgolf

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