BUFFALO, N.Y. — As the summer and fall goes for local golf courses, 2020 has been the equivalent of a 300-yard drive.
Small, privately owned courses open to the public. Courses owned by municipalities. Country clubs that require memberships to participate.
Each of them benefitted from near-perfect weather and behavioral changes caused by Covid-19, with a swell of interest not seen since Tiger Woods’ heyday in the late 1990s and early aughts.