The National Golf Foundation and Golf Datatech, LLC have been working together on these free monthly rounds-played reports for almost two decades as a public service to the golf industry, with the goal of producing finely-tuned research for every city and state in the U.S.

NGF and Golf Datatech work together to solicit monthly rounds played information from nearly 14,000 U.S. golf facilities, aggregating and analyzing data for reports that detail year-over-year changes in play by region and state, as well as in select major cities when possible. Through these combined efforts, the proportion of participants has risen to almost 18% of all U.S. golf facilities.