For the first time in 14 years, the number of golfers in the United States as counted by the National Golf Foundation showed a measurable increase. While it’s technically within the margin of error for the NGF report’s methodology, the number of people in the U.S. age 6 and older who played at least one round of golf in 2018 increased to 24.2 million, up from 23.8 million in 2017.