A Look Back: Golfers give Maine love, but what do they get in return?
For the July 8, 2002, edition, Mainebiz jumped into the outdoor products field with the Outdoor Issue. The cover featured stories about golf, camping gear and kayaks (with a headline, “How skinny boats became a fat Maine business”). A two-page spread on golf indicated the sport meant $205 million to the state’s economy and was booming — growth attributed to “the Tiger Woods effect” — yet boosters complained the state didn't do enough to promote Maine’s golf courses. “It’s a $200 million sport that doesn’t get any state support. It’s almost baffling,” a golf course owner complained.
Fun Fact: In the Sept. 16, 2002, issue of Mainebiz, Maine Medical Center topped the list of largest Maine hospitals. It had 3,700 employees and revenue of $420.9 million. Today, it has 15,000 employees and revenue of $2.87 billion.
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