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Participants in golf in the United States from 2006 to 2016

Number of participants in golf in the United States from 2006 to 2016 (in millions)

The data displays the number of participants in golf in the U.S. from 2006 to 2016. In 2016, the number of participants (aged six years and older) in golf amounted to approx. 23.82 million.

Golf participation - additional information Golf is an outdoor sport in which the player uses a set of clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course with the smallest number of strokes they can achieve. In the U.S., the number of golf participants aged six years and older decreased from around 30 million in 2006 to just over 22 million in 2012, since that year participation has remained around 24 million annually.

2006 29.82
2007 29.53
2008 27.61
2009 27.1
2010 26.12
2011 25.68
2012 22.44
2013 24.72
2014 24.7
2015 24.12
2016 23.82