Letter | Myrtle Beach area golf courses offer everything short of lap dances; that must change

Courses offerings just short of a lap dance

With Golf Holiday recently reporting that total spring season golf rounds played were substantially up, it triggered a dramatic uptick among golf operators’ expectations for the upcoming fall season. However, their optimism was short lived when they also revealed that they counted course membership play, replays and complimentary rounds in their report.

It’s not so much rounds played that excites owners, but paid rounds. And that’s because 42,000 paid rounds are needed yearly to realize a profit from green fees, a well-known factor among the golfing industry.

Unfortunately, on the national scene, it’s reported that paid rounds were down about 17 percent in 2014. And for a better part of a decade, total national participation remains stagnant at about 27 million playing on some 2,600 golf facilities in the U.S., eighty courses of which can be found right here.

Golf operators and marketing firms must undertake efforts to end current green fee incentive wars offering lunch, a sleeve of balls and two beers with green fee purchase - everything but a lap dance. Instead, promote play on our unique clustering of unparalleled and renowned 80-plus layouts for all player abilities, from North Myrtle Beach to Georgetown.

This story was originally published September 2, 2015 at 11:13 AM with the headline "Letter | Myrtle Beach area golf courses offer everything short of lap dances; that must change."