8/01Estimated amount Tiger Woods’s caddie made last year: $1,000,000

Harper’s research

6/96Amount the Pentagon will spend this year to equip Andrews Air Force Base with a third golf course: $5,100,000

Office of Representative Peter DeFazio (Washington)

6/88Rounds of golf played in America each year: 400,000,000

National Golf Foundation (Jupiter, Fla.).

2/86Price of a founding membership in the Beijing International Golf Club: $15,000

Beijing International Golf Club

12/07Number of golf clubs a Phoenix tourism group is sending to troops overseas as part of its “Operation White Christmas”: 14,000

Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitors Bureau (Phoenix)