
Greg Nathan
President and CEO of the National Golf Foundation (NGF), the golf industry's leading research and insights organization, since January 2024.
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Apr 28, 2026
FITZ BROS WIN AND NELLY TAKES CHEVRON | APRIL 27
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Eamon LynchHOST
What do you look at, Greg, as the metrics that are perhaps more forward-looking, that are indicative of the longer-term health of the game or perhaps anything that might be worrisome going forward?

Greg NathanGUEST
Well, what I've been leading with lately is the fact that four of the past five years have been all-time record rounds.

Greg NathanGUEST
And what's special about that comparison is Brown's numbers we're achieving today are with 2,000 fewer facilities, 3,000 fewer courses.

Greg NathanGUEST
So that tells most people anything that they would need to know about the balance of the golf economy and how it's never been better.

Greg NathanGUEST
And that is not going to be diluted by the construction of thousands of golf courses, which is the situation that we were in in the past when rounds were so high around the turn of the millennium.
Is The Golf Boom ENDING? Inside the Data with the NGF & Morgan Stanley
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Greg NathanGUEST
So in order to come up with our national numbers, how many people play golf, we actually do 36,000 interviews a year in order to collect data.

Greg NathanGUEST
So if you were a recipient of one of our surveys and you said, I did not play golf on a green grass golf course in 2025, we ask them, how interested are you in playing golf now? Right.

Greg NathanGUEST
So that's what I'm referring to as one part of the on-deck circle, is that there are over 20 million people who are very interested in activating.

Jimmy RobertsHOST
Is there any way to talk about or measure who golfers are? Is that socioeconomic level, has that remained the same?