Is that simply Utah doesn’t have enough golf courses.

A golf magazine article a couple years ago rated Utah as the 38th best golfing state. They admitted that this seemed harsh and credited most of their regret for this ranking to BYU, since BYU has rich history in its golf program and has produced many a professional golfer… and major champions. But the biggest reason they rated Utah so low (and I think this goes to the problem as to why there are not higher ranked courses in the state, and why there is no depth of quality) is that Utah simply doesn’t have very many golf courses compared to other states… less than 120 in total.

If you compare that to many other states they simply get dwarfed. Let’s take some states that clearly have better golf than Utah, Arizona has 370 golf courses, Michigan has 650 golf courses, Wisconsin has 500 golf courses, Alabama has 270 golf courses. Now, you can make the argument that these states all have higher populations than Utah, but Utah still lags notably behind in golf courses per capita.

Utah has some good public golf at an affordable price…but so do lots of other states, and those other states simply have more options and better golf courses, this makes sense, they have a lot more to choose from! I think to argue the contrary, simply shows you haven’t played much good golf in different states.