Municipal golf courses are a vibrant part of the golf industry’s plan to bring a wider group of the American public to the game.
Often, municipal courses — not simply public-access courses, but those that sit on municipally owned land — have had to weather storms like dwindling tax bases, the game’s rising and falling popularity and a change in access to utilities and labor.
Here is a look at five different municipal golf case studies — some that ridden out the storms successfully and some that have not:
