The one encouraging figure for the month is the positive breadth in GPH across the regions meaning we’re having some amount of positive “comps” but, unfortunately, they’re not occurring in the key golf geographies (that’s how you get Utilization declines in the face of positive breadth). The challenge ahead will be fighting football season without any significant help from weather if our forecast holds true and September’s rounds results next month will tell the tale of whether the NFL’s recent PR “fumble” will translate into any meaningful number of fans abandoning the TV for the links in Sep-Oct. By quarter the year has come in a little differently than ’13 (Q1 was down almost 9% while Q2 bounced back up 2% and Q3 was basically flat), we’ve pretty much got this year what we had last year.

’13 at the market level with ups and downs, when you roll all that up at the national level, September as a month and 2014 as a year is unusually and remarkably just like 2013.

While there are obviously numerous differences vs. Jim Koppenhaver comments, “I’m not sure that I’ve seen such consistency and “flatness” in weather performance in the time we’ve been tracking weather. The supporting figures are also contained in the Weather Impact Tracking report or Pellucid Publications Membership monthly update. neutral weather which also yields lower Utilization for the full year (i.e. For the YtD period, rounds similarly continued to slightly trail the flat GPH measure as they remain in negative territory (-2%) vs. Looking back on August rounds played as reported by Golf Datatech/NGF to calculate the facility % Utilization Rate (UR), we had an decrease in rounds demand results (-3%) which lagged the slightly negative weather performance (-1%) resulting in a decrease in Utilization vs. Pellucid’s call for the 2014 full-year comparative GPH for Total US, the comparison to the 10-yr average and the day-of-week breakdowns are available to Weather Impact Tracking report purchasers or Pellucid Publications Members via the Client Login section at the Pellucid website (go to for information or to subscribe and we’ll send you a sample of the 2014 Q1 actual results to review). 2013 but it’s still showing that weather will underperform both a marginal ’13 and the 10-year average come December 31. Looking to the year-end forecast for GPH, the September’s projection continues to improve slightly vs. Looking at YtD weather impact performance by day-of-week, weekends are now basically even with YA with weekdays showing a negligible decline. The YtD regional positive/negative breadth ratio remains positive at 3:1 with 19 regions having favorable weather against 7 regions with unfavorable weather (19 regions finished in the neutral zone of +/- 2%). YA (even closer for our decimal counters, -0.1%). That outcome extended into the Year-to-Period (YtD) results as the GPH comparative measure vs. Year Ago (YA) at the national level (-0.3% for those of you out there who count decimal points). the same month last year as Playable Hours (GPH) came in dead even % vs. At the national level, September played to a draw vs.

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