According to Golf Datatech, golf rounds for the US were down 4.9% in August 2010 compared to August 2009 and down 3.6% on a YTD basis.
 
Public access play was down 4.5% for the month and private course activity was down 6.2%.  A total of 3865 courses are represented in this report.

By region, the biggest decline in the month came in South Central, down 12.9%; followed by West North Central, 8.6%; South Atlantic, 7.7%; Pacific, 3.9%; East North Central, 2.6%; New England, 2.0%; and Mountain, 0.3%; The one positive region was the Mid-Atlantic, up 1.4%.