Golf Course Economics: Rounds, Tee-Sheet Utilisation, Green Fees & Maintenance

What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

• Turn calendar days, closures and daylight into playable days, tee times per day and the season's round capacity, then measure what closed days cost.
• Turn bookings into rounds, measure utilisation per daypart and for the season, and colour the tee sheet so the weak dayparts stand out.
• Calculate green-fee revenue by rate category, revenue per available round, the average rate of paying rounds and the effect of a dynamic price rise at weekends.
• Calculate dues revenue, member rounds and the dues per round of each category and the whole club, and find how often a full member must play to beat the visitor fee.
• Calculate gross profit by revenue stream, spend per round played, the blended gross margin and the gross profit each round brings in.
• Calculate the water bill, the maintenance budget per hole and per acre, the cost per round played and the labour share.
• Apply wet-year and dry-year factors to the monthly rounds, value both scenarios and chart the three seasonal curves.
• Build the club's EBITDA, the annual contribution to a capital reserve for the big replacements, the result after the reserve and the dues increase that would close the gap.