Focussing primarily on the United Kingdon, I am looking for genuine
and reliable statistics (online or offline) relating to :-
- number of adult (split by age or other demographocs) and child
golfers in the United Kingdom (and in other continents)
- number and names of Club Professional Golfers in the United Kingdom
- retail sales in UK (volume and value) of golf equipment type (CLUBS
only - eg by driver, irons, putters, wedges etc) by the major
manufacturers, eg Taylor Made, Ping, Callaway, Titleist, Wilson, Hogan
Many thanks
Craig

I'm not sure if the information you seek is freely available, but if
you have some money to spend, it seems that this company

http://www.golf-research-group.com/start.html

has reports which would cover some, if not all, of your questions.

Have a good day.

Many thanks for the link, I've taken a good look round the site
seems just a little out of date but if I have no joy on GA it may be
worth calling Golf Research Group
Thanks again