ciscokid;c-52898 wrote
NewEnglandSkier13;c-52827 wrote
joshua_segal;c-52826 wroteAverage greens fees for 18 holes are about $60. For the skier who only goes out a half-dozen times, lift-tickets are not much worse than the cost of a round of golf!
$60 seems to be on the cheaper side for weekend lift tickets these days. On the other hand, $60 is on the more expensive side for golf. Most green fees, at least around here, are $30-$40 for 18 holes.
Another thing, NY 850 golf courses, 50 ski areas
Mich 600 golf, 40 ski

There is just so much larger number of courses
Tee times, well I guess there are ski times

Golf in north about 9 months
Ski about 6 mos.

Sam’s numbers are closer to Mich numbers

I can drive 5 minutes, play a quick 9 in 2 hours for $20ish or have to drive an hour and half each way for a decent hill.

My wife about hit the fan after grocery shopping the other day just for the 2 of us.

A 7 ounce coffee cake for $5 and it was a 14 ounce last week for same price.

The skiing/golf comparison, while they're both outdoor leisure activities that involve the use of disposable income, isn't really an apples to apples compariosn just based on the simple stats.

There were (pre-COVID and COVID caused a BOOM in the golf industry) just under 450 MILLION rounds played annually in the US vs 55-60 million skier days.

Gold courses are limited per day by the simple fact that most can only send at maximum capacity via full foursomes about 4 people per every 8 to 12 minutes off the tee, which is maybe 20 to 30 people an hour out on the course, even in the extended daylight hours of Summer that is less than 400 people per day on the course, which is the equiavlent of what a fully loaded quad chair withj 6 second spacing can do in 10 minutes.

So the shear larger number of golf courses allows for the pricing dispartity between some course charging $20 or less per round whereas others will charge over $500 a round, letr alone some private clubs where the initiation fees at an elite club is over 6 figures.

I LOVE both sports, as between the 2 of them I can be doing either of them 52 weeks a year.

Kind of tough to compare them, other than their both fun, they bost cost $$, and there are plenty of pricing options across both of them to choose from