{"id":393895,"date":"2025-11-21T05:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393895\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:05:24","slug":"study-pennsylvania-ranks-as-the-4th-best-state-in-the-country-for-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393895\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Pennsylvania ranks as the 4th best state in the country for golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study ranks Pennsylvania as the fourth best state in the country for golf.<\/p>\n<p>The study was compiled by <a href=\"http:\/\/Breakfastballs.golf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Breakfast Balls Golf<\/a> and used data surrounding number of golf courses, number of driving ranges, and number of platinum golf clubs, among other metrics.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, Pennsylvania has 674 golf courses, 353 driving ranges, and four platinum golf clubs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only California, Florida, and New York have more platinum clubs than Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What truly makes a great golf destination is the right mix of quality courses, available coaches, and tournament opportunities,&#8221; said Breakfast Balls Golf President and CEO Seth Krenek.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Merion Golf Club, which is located outside of Philadelphia and Oakmont Country Club, located outside of Pittsburgh, are each ranked inside the top ten of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/americas-100-greatest-golf-courses-ranking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Golf Digest&#8217;s list of the 100 greatest golf courses in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/us-open-oakmont-championship-weather-delay-sunday\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oakmont recently hosted the U.S. Open for a record 10th time<\/a> and Merion is poised to host the tournament in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Open at Oakmont this past summer helped generate nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/us-open-oakmont-country-club-288-million-economic-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$300 million in economic impact for the state of Pennsylvania.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study ranks Pennsylvania as the fourth best state in the country for golf. The study was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,2830,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-393895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115585949602456173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}