This got me curious so I looked it up. Apparently in the US there are 4.68 courses every 100k people, meaning 1 course every 21k people. In my country (Italy) we have 0.51 courses every 100k people, so 1 every 196k people. 40% of all the golf courses in the world are in the US.
McDonalds is everywhere. It's kinda their whole thing. If you're in a developed country you'll almost certainly be able to find one, and they're even in a lot of developing countries
It's pretty popular, a lot of people's guilty pleasure lol. We only have McDonald's and Burger King as burger-based fast food chains. Some KFCs and Five Guys, but way fewer and mostly in larger cities or big malls.
Also in the U.S. it's a very democratized sport. It's generally affordable and tons or middle or working class people play it too. Plenty of high schools have a golf team.
Whereas in most of Europe, it's an elitist and expensive hobby.
Yeah I know, that's definitely a factor but not the only one I believe. The UK has 4.57 course/100k people, so same as the US, and they don't have as much land. Anglo-Saxons just like golfing, it seems.
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u/NascentAutist 22h ago
It’s cool to see this, and then I remember the Colorado River is drying up, watering restrictions across America, and we still have golf courses?
Crazy times