The best and worst cities for golfers, according to a new study

How happy are you along with your hometown’s golf choices? How in regards to the climate, or skill to acquire entry to a skilled teacher?

If you reside in Orlando, likelihood is you’re feeling fairly good about this stuff. Pasadena, Texas? Not as a lot.

That’s according to knowledge compiled by LawnStarter, a web based market for yard-maintenance companies. LawnStarter initiated the rating as a means of promoting their love of garden care, and to have a good time National Golf Lovers Day, which is Oct. 4th.

Using 22 key indicators of “golfer-friendliness,” which included components just like the variety of public and municipal programs out there per 100,000 residents, the variety of premium-access programs, tools availability and local weather, LawnStarter grouped the 22 components into 5 completely different classes. LawnStarter then calculated a weighted rating for the 200 largest U.S. cities by inhabitants in every class, then averaged the scores for every metropolis throughout all classes to provide you with a listing of the ten best and worst cities for golfers. In plain phrases: your hometown is perhaps nice for climate however brief on programs. Or overflowing with golf choices however caught in a northern clime.

Based on LawnStarter’s rating, the highest metropolis in America for golfers is … drumroll …. Scottsdale, Arizona. No shock there! Scottsdale topped the rankings for each public and premium course accessibility. Next on the listing was Orlando, adopted by Cincinnati, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Winston-Salem, N.C., Los Angeles, Savannah, Ga., Augusta, Ga., and Rochester, N.Y.

The metropolis that fared the worst in LawnStarter’s rating was our beforehand talked about Pasadena, Texas, which has a reported inhabitants of practically 153,000 individuals however ranked close to the underside in 4 out of 5 classes.

The different 9 areas making up the “worst” listing embody Bridgeport, Conn., Warren, Mich., Miramar, Fla., Santa Clarita, Calif., Paterson, N.J., Orange, Calif., Garden Grove, Calif., Fremont, Calif., and West Valley City, Utah.

You can take a look at the LawnStarter’s complete rating outcomes and methodology here.

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