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Weather Boosts Rounds, Revenue in <br />Colorado <br />Through August, rounds were up 9%; green fee revenue jumped <br />9.5% <br /> <br />by Gary Baines <br />10/22/2012 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Rounds of golf played in the first eight months of 2012 jumped <br />considerably compared to last year -- both in Colorado and nationally <br />-- but industry officials are attributing the increases primarily to <br />unseasonably warm weather in the <br />compiled figures from 74 Colorado public golf facilities that responded <br />to a rounds and revenue survey based on the period from January <br />through August. The association reported the results earlier this <br />month at a public golf operators <br />marked improvement over the same period last year. Rounds were <br />up an average of 8.9 percent, while green fee revenue jumped 9.5 <br />at when the inventory is there, <br />it's going to get used," CGA executive director Ed Mate said. "So <br />there is a desire among our core golfers to play more golf if the <br />nally are also up. The National <br />Golf Foundation reports that, through August, rounds countrywide <br />had increased 7.7 percent compared to the same period in <br />the right direction after the number <br />of golfers in the U.S. dropped from 30 million in 2005 to 25.7 million <br /> overall feeling is it's great that <br />revenue is up (in Colorado), but a lot of it for sure is based on <br />weather," said Colorado PGA executive director Eddie Ainsworth. <br />"But there are a lot of individual operations that are really trying to <br />implement programs that get that golfer to come back, whether it be <br />through retention programs or new player development <br />venue survey results are <br />