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BestGolfCities
America’s Best Golf Cities....
Punta Gorda Ranks #3
For the third time since 1998, we ranked all of America's metropolitan areas for golf. Punta Gorda comes in at #3 out of 330 (MSAs) in the U.S.
Find out who's No. 1 and where a city near you ranks.
Golf Digest has ranked America's largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas. In cooperation with The Longitudes Group, utilizing the Golf Digest Companies' Database of Golf in America, the survey found that the best places to live and golf are increasingly shifting to small towns and suburbs in the South (11 of our top 20), while the Northeast remains a golfer's wasteland.
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There are 330 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the U.S. with a population of greater than 50,000. We ranked all of them on four different criteria:
• Access to golf (a blend of four factors: the number of golf holes in an MSA compared to its population; number of golf holes compared to the number of avid golfers; percentage of public versus private courses; and a measure of the number of rounds played compared to capacity).
• Weather (based on the number of golfable days per year).
Value of golf (based on average green fee in each MSA).
• Quality of golf (based on average star ratings in Golf Digest's Places to Play guidebook).
We weighted these four factors as follows: Access, 45%; Weather, 25%; Value, 15%; Quality, 15%. Using these weightings, we determined the average overall ranking for all 330 cities. The research was conducted by The Longitudes Group (www.longitudesgroup.com), utlizing the Golf Digest Companies' Database of Golf in America. |
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http://www.golfdigest.com/rankings/
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