Numbers Game | 09.08 | T+L Golf

By Travel & Leisure

June 24, 2009

Number of transactions for golf clubs sold on eBay in 2007: 1,776,326

Estimated value of those sales, in dollars: 216,193,558

Estimated number, per week, of eBay golf auctions shut down by the U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group: 1,000

Percentage of U.S. golfers who researched equipment online in 2007: 57

Percentage who purchased equipment online: 24

Number of views on YouTube of a clip from High School Musical 2: 18,402,146

Rank of this clip when the search term “golf” is sorted by number of views: 1

Number of views of the first clip that’s actually about golf, a minute-long segment of Tiger Woods on SwingVision: 1,217,046

Rank of this clip: 20

Sources: eBay, U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group, National Golf Foundation, YouTube