Pinehurst Did Not Get A Post-Open Spike In Play
/Michael Buteau looks at the business side of Pinehurst No. 2's restoration and, well, so much for the post 2005 U.S. Open play boost according to Robert Dedman:
“Our hope is to attract more and more golfers to the resort,” Dedman, 53, said in a telephone interview. “We didn’t do this very lightly.”
The number of golfers who visited the course -- where about 35,000 rounds are played annually -- dropped by about 5,000 from 2005 to 2009. Over the same period, rounds played at public courses in the U.S. fell 2.7 percent, according to the National Golf Foundation.