Next week the British brand, Joseph Garratt will present its 1st collection for boy golfers aged 7-12 at the London Golf Show (from Friday, November 13th to Sunday, November 15th). If you have not heard about Joseph Garratt,…
Tomorrow will tee of the 27th Nomura Cup (an Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC) event) at Yas Links Abu Dhabi with 27 four-man amateur teams. As you can remember, in 2013, Team Australia won the 26th Nomura Cup with a…
It was not a waste of money for Glenmuir, Sunderland of Scotland and MacWet to be at The 2015 Golf Show at Harrogate. The company has reported a 20% increase in sales in comparison with their previous best…
Probably you remember that Nike Golf launched its 1st European (on the continent) Nike Performance Fitting Studio at the Himmerland Resort and Spa last month. Recently Nike Golf organized a competition in this Danish golf club among its Swoosh Staff members…
I think there are at least two common motivations among the 4 bidders (Spain, Italy, Germany and Austria) for the 2022 Ryder Cup: golf enthusiasm and promoting their country (as a country of investment, tourism destination etc.). The…
PING brand team member, Andy Sullivan captured his third win of the 2015 European Tour season at the Portugal Masters yesterday. His other 2 victories were: 2015 South African Open, Joburg Open. His other highlights of his career are: winning the Scottish…
Andalucia is in a controversial situation. Although, we can see 7 million tourists are visiting Andalucia every year, among them many golf tourists (see below the figures), but we can also find an unemployment rate of 35.21 % (The forecast is still…
I think, I will dedicate the Sundays for softer golf industry topics. Last time I wrote about hedgehogs at the Macdonald Portal Hotel, Golf & Spa. This time, I will be more serious. Lexi Thompson won (-15 under…
I have just heard about an interesting initiative of Callaway Golf: The Links at Petco Park. They somehow found a connection between baseball and golf. Not by accident, as per Nielsen, baseball is the most male-heavy audience, at 70%, with…
Etiqus at the recent Golf Trade Show at Harrogate announced that they have raised £10,000 for the Golf Foundation (a leading golf charity). The £10,000 raised will be spent on the Golf Foundation’s national HSBC Golf Roots program which grows golf participation among…
A little and less known golf course operator company in the UK, the Glendale Golf has achieved a remarkable result by attracting 700+ "new to golf course" people to its golf courses. Originally they set a more modest…
Just like many golf clubs around the world, the Seve Ballesteros designed The Shire London golf club has also prepared a winter page, the 'Legends Winter Offer'. The new ‘Legends Winter Offer’ at The Shire London is available from Monday,…
The International Golf Travel Market (IGTM) 2015, that was held in Tenerife between 5-8 October has ended last week. So I thought to share with you the list of TOP 10 winners : Michael Campbell, one of New Zealand’s most…
Within 10 months, Odyssey Golf is launching their 3rd version of Odyssey Works Tank Putters: the Odyssey Works Tank Cruiser Putters. Apparently these new Odyssey Works Tank Cruiser Putters are very similar to the previous version that was launched in…
Last week Wilson Staff announced its new Wilson Staff FG Tour F5 line of woods that will be available from January 2016. They have already tested it by tour players like Kevin Streelman. F stands for Feel in Wilson Staff's F-C-D…
Again a "Sunday off topic", but this time it is important. It cannot be stressed enough the importance of prevention...and this is not a pharmaceutical industry mantra....This is why I am happy to highlight Troon and Callaway Golf's…
Macdonald Hotels & Resorts have conducted between May and August 2015, a comprehensive quality audit (or we can call it also: a quarterly benchmarking audit of their golf courses) on 7 of their golf courses (including: Macdonald Spey Valley…
Troon will launch officially on November 1, 2015 their new, the 2016 Troon Cards. So let's see what are the new features, services and left unchanged. These are the new services and features: Addition of 4 new card options…
Today is the last day of the International Golf Travel Market. So I thought to share with you some interesting insights about the golf tourism industry. Golf tour operators reported that the number of golfers they carried between January…
Mount Juliet Estate becomes the 16th member of the exclusive European Tour Properties network with the announcement of the Irish venue as a European Tour Destination. Mount Juliet is located in the heart of County Kilkenny, becomes the first European Tour Destination…