States with Highest Proportion of Private Golf

Just over one-quarter of U.S. golf facilities are private, with the majority open to public play. New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the nation, has the highest proportion of private golf relative to total supply, with half the golf facilities in the Garden State -- from Baltusrol to Pine Valley, -- being member-only private clubs. Three of the country's smallest five states by land mass (New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island) rank among the top five with the highest proportion of private golf. Florida, with its wealth of private clubs in the southern part of the state, ...