High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Thursday, August 21, 2008
Golf Tourism
There are over 550 golf courses in Scotland and 5 of the 9 Open Championship venues are Scottish.
VisitScotland continues to promote the Scottish golf product throughout the world. Golf Tourism is worth in the region of £300m to the Scottish economy. Spending by overseas visitors is estimated at £66m, with £46m of this by US visitors (2002 figures).
On average, golfers spend twice that of other visitors to Scotland and for every £1 spent of a green fee, a further £5 is spent elsewhere in the Scottish economy.
Note: Through the National Golf Tourism Monitor, VisitScotland is currently working to update these figures.
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