In the late 1980s, golf was surging, and the National Golf Foundation, NGF, encouraged the industry to build a course a day for 10 years. Over a 20-year period up until the early 2000s, more than 4,000 new golf courses were built. Currently, there are more golf courses in the United States than anywhere else, over 14,000 totaling approximately 2 million acres of green space. However, that being said, the number of golfers and rounds played began to decline in the 2000s. Courses began closing in the Great Recession and the trend accelerated so fast that more than 400 courses went defunct in 2016 and 2017, according to the NGF.…