Locations and boundaries of public golf courses built after 1994 are approximate and were confirmed with verbal directions from a golf course representative through telephone contact. The purpose of this data is to provide a geographic representation of the location of each golf course for tourism and economic development. This data combined with infrastructure, utility, environmental sensitivity, labor, demographics and quality of life are used to select sites for new business based on prospects needs. Four sources were used to create this data base, the Virginia Golf Guide, The Virginia Atlas and Gazetteer, ADC Street Map books, and USGS SPOT imagery. The polygons were digitized directly into ArcInfo using SPOT imagery in the background.
Line geometry is topologically clean.
Private, Military, Government, Semi-private, and Resort golf courses are not currently in the database but are being added. In cases where the golf course was built after 1994 a phone call was made to the golf course for confirmation of primary intersections or roads. For golf courses in cities covered by the ADC Street Map Book the boundaries were digitized using the Map Book as a guide. The attributes and digitizing were done in ArcInfo. Each public golf course boundary is associated with a label and a record in the attribute table.