The Northeast Ohio golf industry hasn't had a lot of reasons to celebrate this decade.

Many of the facilities that have survived have consistently operated in the red, as declining participation and brutal weather have proven to be a more formidable duo than Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.

But the summer of 2019, after one of the wettest springs on record, has been especially good — so much so that quite a few golf courses are reporting year-over-year increases in rounds played and revenue that are in double figures.

Operators aren't exactly taking victory laps around their plush layouts, but they are more hopeful than they've been in years.

The number of rounds played at StoneWater Golf Club in Highland Heights has increased 15%. More significantly, revenue per round has jumped 40%.

"It's crazy, because we lost like two months," said Lindsey Neidus, StoneWater's operations and marketing manager.

At Valleaire Golf Club in Hinckley, rounds played are up 6%, and revenue has soared 14%.

The year-to-date increases at Briardale Greens Golf Course in Euclid are 3.8% for rounds and 6.1% for revenue.

Little Mountain Country Club in Painesville has seen a 26% bump in rounds and a 21% increase in revenue.

"It's the first exciting year I've felt at Little Mountain in maybe a decade," said Jimmy Hanlin, one of the club's operators and best known as an ubiquitous golf personality on Fox Sports Ohio and SportsTime Ohio.

Golf Datatech, which compiles numbers from courses around the country, said the increases in Northeast Ohio have been minimal: a 0.5% jump in rounds played. But the firm's numbers are only through July, and courses said business in August and September — with Mother Nature being especially kind — has been terrific.

And even a slight increase in rounds can be seen as a relief after respective drops of 7.8% and 5.9% in 2018 and '17, according to Golf Datatech.

Joe Salemi, a commercial developer who designed his picturesque Boulder Creek Golf Club in Streetsboro, doesn't want to hear about those stats, however.

"People talk about rounds," Salemi said. "Rounds mean nothing. It's revenue. Revenue is what matters."

Boulder Creek has done well there: a double-digit jump this year.

"And last year was up from the year before," said Salemi, who in 2014 told Crain's that he didn't see "a light at the end of the tunnel" for the declining golf industry.