Including equipment, green fees, and tourism, the U.S. golf economy is worth $62 billion, according to the World Golf Foundation, which has determined that there are 36.7 million golf
participants in the United States. (There were 502 million rounds
of golf played in one year.) Everyone knows that much of the golf
played by businesspeople is either during weekends, on holidays,
or on an occasional official business golf outing, where clients or
business partners might be included.
The reality is that there is greatly unproductive time during the
workday where a few-hour break would hardly be missed: