Golf has consolidated its growth for the sixth consecutive year and already has more than 300,000 members in Spain, of which 1,690 are professionals, according to a report by the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.
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In 2024, the number of golf federation licenses has increased by 6,644 licenses, 2.2% more. This consolidates the upward trend of the sport, since it has grown uninterruptedly since 2019 and has left behind the years of decline brought about by the economic crisis.
Golf, Spain
In this way, golf continues to head towards its peak of registrations, when in 2010 it achieved 338,588 federated members.
By autonomous communities, Madrid is the community in which the highest percentage of registered players is found, with 31% and almost 95,000 federated members. Andalusia and Catalonia complete the podium.
Only three autonomous communities lost registrations this year: Navarra and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. The number of women registered in golf, which is significantly lower than that of men, increased this year by 1,805 licences and now totals more than 83,000.
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Golf has gone from having 45,000 registered players in 1990 to 305,603 in this last year, showing the widespread popularity of the sport today.
Spain (Spanish: Espaa), whose official name is the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de Espaa), is a sovereign state, member of the European Union since 1986. A parliamentary monarchy, Spain is located at the western end of Europe and occupies a large part of the surface of the Iberian Peninsula.
It has a surface area of 505,941 kmand in 2020 had approximately 47 million inhabitants. It borders to the northeast with France (from which it is almost separated by the Pyrenees mountain range) and Andorra, to the south with Gibraltar, to the west with Portugal and, through its exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, with Morocco. It is also bathed to the north and southwest by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea. Spain includes the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, the exclave of Llvia, as well as the island of Pheasants in the Bidasoa River (in condominium with France).
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The capital of the country is Madrid, which has held this function uninterruptedly since 1561, except for a five-year period between 1601 and 1606. The official language of the State is Spanish; other languages (e.g. Catalan, Galician, Basque) or dialects (e.g. Valencian), are, as the constitution states, "official within the respective autonomous communities in accordance with their own statutes".
