How many total acres of land do all of the golf courses in the US use?

I'm trying to find out land use statistics of golf courses in general in the US. Thanks!How many total acres of land do all of the golf courses in the US use?Well, I found on a website that there were nearly 32,000 golf courses worlwide in 2005 and about half of them are in the U.S.



It doesn't say exactly how many acres of land is used for all the golf courses, but it does state that the average golf course is about 75 acres.



So, an estimate would be about 1,200,000 acres.

(75 acres x 16,000 courses)How many total acres of land do all of the golf courses in the US use?"There are more than 17,000 golf courses in the United States, and approximately 70 percent of that land is not used for playing," as of July 12, 2007.



I also found this article from 2000.

In the United States, there are approximately 15,000 golf courses, accounting for an estimated 4 million acres. Seventy percent of that area is considered rough or out-of-play, and has the potential for creating significant wildlife benefits (Tilly, 2000). More golf courses are created each year, with a typical golf course comprising 54 hectares of land (Terman, 1997).



So based on the approximate acres from their estimate in 2000, the current acres used would be about 4.5 million.