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Melbourne, Australia: Golf participation in Australia continues its unprecedented rise, surpassing four million adult players in 2024\/25 \u2013 the highest total ever recorded.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Melbourne, Australia: Golf participation in Australia continues its unprecedented rise, surpassing four million adult players in 2024\/25 \u2013 the highest total ever recorded.<\/p>\n With participation up 5.2% and social memberships growing more than four times faster than traditional club memberships, Golf Australia has announced the launch of Golf Australia Club, a flexible handicap subscription designed to support the growing number of regular golfers who are not yet part of a club.<\/p>\n The findings, released in the\u00a02024\/25 Golf Club Participation Report<\/a>, reveal that one in every five adult Australians played on a course, driving range, simulator, or mini-golf venue last year.<\/p>\n Traditional golf club membership grew strongly, rising to 477,220 members nationwide, marking the fifth consecutive year of membership growth and a 24.1% increase since 2017\/18 \u2013 the strongest sustained period of club membership growth in three decades.<\/p>\n The report found growth is being fuelled by new and emerging audiences:<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 41.6% of new members are under the age of 35, double the proportion of existing members.<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Junior membership surged 17.9%, with the number of under 18-year-old members more than doubling in the last five years, up 112%. This has been driven by record growth in national participation programmes, including over 40,000 registrations for MyGolf\u00a0powered by Ripper GC\u00a0(up 11%) and a 25% increase in TeeMates flexible junior memberships.<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Women\u2019s participation continues to rise, supported by the Get Into Golf programme for adults new to golf which is up 10% year-on-year.<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Women representing almost 88% of all Get Into Golf participants, while 25.8% of participants were born overseas, reflecting deliberate efforts to extend golf\u2019s reach across diverse community groups. The Australian Golf Foundation\u2019s Junior Girls Scholarship Programme has also expanded to around 1,400 girls across 160 clubs.<\/p>\n Beyond traditional play, off-course golf continues to boom, with more than 1.5 million people hitting balls at driving ranges, indoor simulators and entertainment-style venues.<\/p>\n Golf Australia CEO James Sutherland said the results reflect a sport in transformation, driven by new audiences, new formats and increased accessibility across the game.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a defining milestone for golf in Australia,\u201d Sutherland said. \u201cWe\u2019ve passed four million players for the first time and the data shows that growth is coming from younger and more diverse communities. Golf isn\u2019t just growing, it\u2019s evolving as more Australians than ever find a version of the game that suits their lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the growth, the latest data also points to a clear opportunity. There are 1.8 million Australians who play a round of golf regularly but aren\u2019t currently members of a club. Among them, around a quarter of a million play at least once a month. These golfers are highly engaged but need a more flexible and accessible way to connect to the game.<\/p>\n This demand has driven a rapid rise in social and virtual membership adoption, which grew 14.8% last year (four times the growth rate of traditional club membership). Today, almost one in 10 club-affiliated golfers is a social club member.<\/p>\n To support this growing segment and strengthen pathways into club membership, Golf Australia has launched\u00a0Golf Australia Club<\/a>, a new handicap subscription product designed to get more golfers playing regularly and tracking their progress through an official GA Handicap.<\/p>\n \u201cGolf Australia Club will provide these golfers with an official GA Handicap, insurance and access to the Golf Australia App, giving them a simple, flexible and affordable way to start or continue their journey in the sport,\u201d Sutherland said.<\/p>\n \u201cCritically, this is about building a larger pipeline of future club members. Similar programmes overseas have shown enormous success, England Golf\u2019s iGolf initiative has already transitioned more than 20,000 subscribers into traditional club membership.\u201d<\/p>\n
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