The golf boom in Dubai has led to work commencing on a pay-as-you-play 18-hole floodlit course which will be open 24 hours a day!
There is, by all indications, a golf boom in America.
Tournaments for distance-hitting have flourished on the fringe of the golf boom.
Either way, the golf boom goes on.
The golf boom has been most explosive in the nations of Southeast Asia, which offer tropical weather and plentiful, relatively inexpensive land.
The environmental effect of these recent golf booms is seen as a cause for concern by many.
And for all of the top players, it will be another opportunity to make more money, cashing in on the golf boom.
For the next 20 or 30 years, it's going to be epiphenomenal, but with the graying of America, the golf boom will lessen.
Clearly, the ski and snowboard industry has looked at the golf boom in the United States and done its best to copy from it.
Today, however, a golf boom is leading 2 million new players onto fairways each year, almost half of whom are women.