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Golf Digest just released its first ever rankings of the "Top 50 Courses of Myrtle Beach". Their rankings are compiled from the opinions of "a group of 800-plus low-handicap golfers" that make up their course-rating panel and are responsible for Golf Digest's "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses."

It is a well known fact that the bungling spinmeisters at Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday, ably assisted by their incompetent cronies at the Myrtle Beach Golf Course Owners Association, were “cooking the books” long before it became fashionable on Wall Street.

Unlike Wall Street, these bozos haven’t been “cooking” their financial numbers, but rather the number of paid golf rounds played in the Myrtle Beach area, the number of golfers visiting Myrtle Beach, as well as the numbers of golfers flying into the Myrtle Beach International Airport. 

The last great year for Myrtle Beach golf was in 1998, when visiting golfers played 4,169,992 paid rounds on 94.2 golf courses. In 1999, Golf Holiday started adding “member” rounds to their “paid” rounds calculations. There were 526,979 member rounds played in 1998.

Therefore, using Golf Holiday’s current accounting methods, there were 4,695,971 paid rounds played in 1998, which, in turn, worked out to an average of 49,851 paid rounds per golf course.

In 2004, Golf Holiday stated that there were 3,973,947 paid rounds played on 122.6 Myrtle Beach area golf courses, of which there were 579,486 member rounds. That translates into a loss of 722,024 paid rounds per year. Therefore, between 1999 and 2004, while the number of courses increased by 16.3%, Golf Holiday’s incompetent marketing caused the number of paid rounds to drop by an astounding 15.4%.

Based upon Golf Holiday’s 112.6 golf courses, the average number of paid rounds per course was only 35,293 in 2004. That pitiful number represents a net loss of 14,558 average paid rounds per course, or a 29.3% annual loss per course.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, let’s get down to the “real” numbers, which Golf Holiday tries so hard to cover-up with all their BS. To do so one must revert back to Golf Holiday’s 1998 accounting practices, and subtract all “member” rounds, which are basically “local play,” and financially nebulous at best. After doing just that, there would have been 4,169,997 paid rounds played in 1998, for an average of 44,268 paid round per course. By comparison, in 2004 there would have only been 3,394,461 paid rounds played, for only 30,146 average paid rounds per course. The harsh reality of this is that the average paid rounds per course crashed by 14,123, for an annual average loss of 31.9% per course.

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