
The supporting figures are also contained in the Weather Impact Tracking report or Pellucid Publications Membership monthly update. In other words, weather didn’t give the industry much to work with in ’14 and we basically managed to keep pace in rounds demand to that low bar.

For the YtD period, December’s results didn’t have much impact on the Utilization value (given 11 months’ history) which finished down modestly relative to YA. Looking back at December rounds played as reported by Golf Datatech/NGF to calculate the facility % Utilization Rate (UR), rounds demand (+1%) failed to follow very favorable weather (+24%) resulting in a sharp decline in Utilization. The supporting figures for the 2014 full-year comparative GPH for Total US, the comparison to the 10-yr average and the day-of-week breakdowns are available to Weather Impact Tracking report purchasers or Pellucid Publications Members via the Client Login section at the Pellucid website (go to for information or to subscribe and we’ll send you a sample of the 2014 1st half actual results to review). ’14 and basically flat to the 10-yr average. Looking to the year-end forecast for GPH, the initial call is up slightly vs. Looking at YtD weather impact performance by day-of-week, weekends were up sharply while weekdays also registered a gain. The YtD regional positive/negative breadth ratio was also positive at 2:1 with 12 regions having favorable weather against 7 regions with unfavorable weather (1 region finished in the neutral zone of +/- 2%, the remaining 25 regions are out-of-season). That outcome also represents the Year-to-Period (YtD) with only one month reported for the year.


the same month last year as Playable Hours (GPH) registered up 18% vs. At the national level, January registered a sharp increase vs.
