Thanks Lynn.
- It could be the A.P. articles meant all three Griffith courses, but they do specify two courses or 36 holes. Plus, I've seen another article from 1946 indicating that over 300,000 rounds were played on the two full courses plus the nine hole, so 248,000 may well just be for the two. Either way, the starter must have been a pretty busy guy.
- As for Brookside, I was trying to remember what number I found. I was thinking it was really high, like over 100,000 thousand, but I really can't remember. You are a lot younger than me when it comes to most things, so if you think 80,000 is the number then that is probably closer to correct. I'll have to dig that old Brookside stuff up, but fittingly right now I can't remember where it is.
-I don't know about the New York City muni's, but I read on a few different websites that all five of the Bethpage Courses together do around 300,000 rounds per year, with the Black clocking in at around 35,000-40,000. If memory serves only a few of the courses (Yellow and Blue?) are open year 'round and weather permitting so I 300K for the five courses is pretty busy.
-You sent me a great breakdown once of the LA county courses from probably around five or six years ago. What are the chances I can find that?
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Matt Day,
Thanks very much for the info. Out of curiosity, do you happen to know the tee time spacing and the the approximate pace of play?
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Shivas, I've seen some big numbers for early Chicago area publics as well, but don't recall just how big.
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Alex, I was supposed to play Los Verdes tomorrow, but we had to cancel. That is one of places which allows fivesomes is it not? That can make for a lot of long rounds.
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TEPaul, I am afraid I don't understand your post. If you you really think it is mathematically and actually impossible to get 124,000 golfers over a single 18 hole course in a year, my guess you never had the pleasure of playing Rancho Park in West Los Angeles back in its heyday. As Lynn points out above, "Rancho used to record round totals in the 120,000's."
All I recall you explaining was that in your opinion you could thought you get 550-600 golfers out on a course if they played foursomes (two players per ball) but as this was irrelevant I ignored it and moved on. Same as I'll do here.
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According to the Guinness Book of World Records (at least as reported in a Frommer's review) Ali Wai Municipal in near Waikiki Beach is the busiest course in the World. I've seen all sorts of crazy numbers for their number of rounds; 500 a day, 400-500 a day, 133,000/year, 146,000/year, 170,000+/year. I have no idea how many.