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Greenlight Advisors, developer of GolfClubBenchmarks.com, today announced the release of its 2025 Municipal Golf Study and Ongoing Benchmark Report, the industry’s most comprehensive, data-driven analysis of financial and operational performance across U.S. municipal golf courses.

Now in its third consecutive year, the national study aggregates anonymized financial and operational data from hundreds of municipal golf courses across every major region of the United States. The study provides municipal golf operators, city leaders, and policymakers with objective benchmarks to evaluate performance, justify budgets, and plan for long-term financial and operational sustainability.

The City of Denver and the City of Aurora today announced that their municipal golf operations have joined Greenlight Advisors’ GolfClubBenchmarks.com benchmarking platform, reinforcing a shared commitment to data-driven decision-making, operational excellence, and the long-term sustainability of golf in the Rocky Mountain region.
By participating in Greenlight Advisors’ benchmarking service, Denver and Aurora golf operations will gain access to comprehensive financial and operational peer comparisons designed to identify performance gaps, uncover efficiency opportunities, and support more informed strategic planning.

Greenlight Advisors (GLA) today announced that the National Golf Foundation (NGF) has joined GLA’s Certified Partner Program and will provide advisory support for the 2025 U.S. Municipal Golf Study. The partnership pairs GLA’s GolfClubBenchmarks.com platform and reports with NGF’s deep municipal golf consulting experience to help public and municipal courses measure performance, identify improvement opportunities, and strengthen long-term financial sustainability. To join the 2025 U.S. Municipal Golf Study, signup at https://signup.golfclubbenchmarks.com/ and enter the discount code “NGF” to take advantage of this complimentary service. The sign-up ends on 11/15/25.

The Montgomery County Revenue Authority (MCRA) today announced that its golf operations has joined Greenlight Advisors’ GolfClubBenchmarks.com software service, reinforcing its commitment to excellence in fiscal management and operational performance.

Greenlight Advisors and the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA) invite all municipal, state and federal golf facilities to participate in the 2025 U.S. Municipal Golf Study, an annual research report that provides municipal golf facilities with a clear financial picture that their operators can use to understand the muni landscape, and help them make better-informed operational decisions. Eligible facilities that want to use this personalized, comprehensive and up-to-date benchmarking to improve their operations should sign up at https://signup.golfclubbenchmarks.com by October 31, 2025.

Spirit Golf Management (SGM), a leading provider of golf management services in the northeast has teamed up with Greenlight Advisors joining the Certified Partner Program, where they will provide advisory services to municipal golf courses in the eastern region that are members of the GolfClubBenchmarks.com program.

Greenlight Advisors, developer of GolfClubBenchmarks.com, is pleased to welcome Louisville Golf’s ten courses to its expanding membership list of golf courses. Owned and operated by Louisville Parks and Recreation Department, Louisville Golf joins Palm Beach County, San Antonio, Tacoma Parks, Salt Lake City, and hundreds of other participating courses across the country.

Greenlight Advisors, in partnership with the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA), has released their Exclusive 2024 Municipal Golf Study and Ongoing Benchmark Report. Hundreds of municipal golf course operators from across the country participated in the study. The major cities and counties joining the study included Salt Lake City, Chicago, Cook County, Buffalo, Palm Beach County, Boca Raton, Orlando, San Antonio, Baton Rouge, Tacoma…

Troon, the world leader in golf course management, has agreed to join Greenlight Advisors’ Certified Partner Program and offer advisory services to their member golf courses. Greenlight Advisors, developer of GolfClubBenchmarks.com, pioneered financial benchmarking for municipal golf operators with their annual Municipal Golf Study and confidentially gathered key financial and operational data from hundreds of municipal golf courses across the United States and published the first ever municipal golf operators benchmarking study.

(LINCOLN, Neb.) – Landscapes Golf Management is the first golf course management company to participate in the new Certified Partner Program with Greenlight Advisors, the developer of GolfClubBenchmarks.com, to augment interpretation of data and comparison to key benchmarks for the municipal courses it operates. The partnership empowers Landscapes Golf Management to further identify and analyze areas of its courses’ businesses which are thriving and those which may lend themselves to adjustments in strategies.

Listen in on the floor of The PGA Show as NGCOA host Harvey Silverman covers all corners of data benchmarking, and the role technology has played with Mike Suglich, Founder & President of Greenlight Advisors. How are today’s golf operators evaluating performance and what are the key trends to watch from the data collected? Listen in as Mike and Harvey dive into benchmarking and data analytics with golf course industry leaders and GolfClubBenchmarks.com customers, Chris Goodman, GM of Metro Parks Tacoma, Matt Kammeyer, Director of Golf at Salt Lake City Golf and Andrew Peterson, President of Alamo City / San Antonio Golf Trail along with management company partners Phillip Martin, Senior VP of Ops at Troon and Mike Williams, VP of Ops at Landscapes Golf Management.

Troon, a world leader in golf course management, will join Greenlight Advisors and the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA) to support the association’s 2024 Municipal Golf Study, now underway across the country. Troon, a long-time member of the NGCOA, has offered their experienced professional team and municipal golf course resources to participate in and support this industry-critical initiative.

Greenlight Advisors has teamed up with the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA) to invite municipal golf courses to participate in Greenlight’s “Exclusive 2024 Municipal Golf Study.” The objective of the study is to provide a clear financial picture for municipal golf course operators, and offer them an educational forum and a special Municipal Membership to both organizations.

Greenlight Advisors, developer of GolfClubBenchmarks.com is pleased to welcome Florida’s Palm Beach County Golf Courses to its expanding membership list of golf courses across the country.

Greenlight Advisors, developer of GolfClubBenchmarks.com is pleased to welcome San Antonio’s eight municipal golf courses and the Alamo City Golf Trail to its expanding membership list of municipal, public, and private golf courses from across the country.

Greenlight Advisors, developer of GolfClubBenchmarks.com welcomes Metro Parks Tacoma’s Meadow Park Golf Course to its growing list of municipal, public, and private golf clubs. By participating in the golf club benchmark service, Meadow Park can now compare their courses’ financial and operational results with regional and national courses across the country.

Greenlight Advisors is teaming up with Golf Inc. Magazine to conduct the first municipal golf course financial benchmark study in several years. The objective is to provide a clear financial picture of municipal golf performance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Greenlight Advisors, a financial technology firm that specializes in benchmarking golf course operator performance, is using its proprietary Profitability Benchmark service to conduct the study.

Greenlight Advisors, an emerging technology company, today announced the addition of Salt Lake City Golf to its portfolio of public and private golf clubs. SLC Golf provides exciting golfing experiences at six full-service public golf courses throughout the Salt Lake Valley. Together, they will work to add more public and private clubs to expand the repository of comprehensive data with which to make the service’s benchmark comparisons even more actionable to all clubs involved impacting their bottom line and financial future.

Greenlight Advisors, an emerging technology company, today released its financial benchmarking software engine, designed to help businesses simplify and improve financial performance, productivity, and profitability. To help test the software, the company is currently accepting applications from businesses to participate in phase two of its financial benchmarking study, slated for the first quarter of 2021.