# GOLF IS BOOMING | Royal Albartross

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- Published at: 2024-11-21 10:01:23 UTC
- Updated at: 2025-07-17 14:33:26 UTC

## Author
Ross Hocknell

## Subject
Royal Albartross

## Content
The golf market has never been stronger, statistics from all sectors of the golf market are simply quite staggering. $45 Million A record setting 45 million people in the USA played golf in 2023. This is made of up of 26.6 million who played on a golf course and 18.4 million who participated exclusively in off-course activities. (Top Golf, simulators or driving ranges)$3.4 MillionThe number of people in 2023 in the USA that played on a golf course for the first time. The previous record was 2.4 million in 2000.$9 Billionthe global golf shoe market was estimated to be at $8.96bn in 2023 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.8% between 2024 and 2030* stats are from National Golf Foundation https://www.ngf.org/When you have an expanding industry with no signs of slowing down in the near future, it creates a market ripe for investment and M&A activity. Some recent activity includes