In recent weeks there is an ongoing rumour about 23-year-old Irishman Rory McIlroy, who is on the verge of signing a 10-year deal with Nike, worth $250 million. Nice sum isn't it? Well, not that much if we remember,…
I have just came back from Barcelona. This is really a lovely city. Around the city there are 10 golf courses. If you are lack of time + want to see as much as possible of the famous…
While we still do not have fresh statistics about golf participation around the world in 2012, it is hard to expect growth. In 2011, Europe's golf market entered a downturn. In 2011 46,000 golfers left the game. This…
Last week my guest writer Anthony Douglas from Hole19 Golf started to talk about golf mobile applications and in general about golf mobile application market. We believe there are lots of opportunities in this area to exploit for our business goals.…
There is an ongoing gossip since the beginning of June that Facebook is planning to launch next to the popular LIKE and Subscribe buttons a new one called WANT. This is probably will look like this: Why it…
10 days ago I promised that the founder of Hole19 Golf GPS mobile application, Anthony Douglas will share with us, his thoughts about the golf mobile application industry, and in general about the mobile usage trends. Due to the complexity…
As we all know there is a social network for every audience. Golf is not an exeption. For this reason I made a little research to find out if there is any golf social networking site and what…
Golf club customization reached a new level as we could see from the example of Callaway Golf. Now I found Cleveland Golf's golf club customization solution. It is clear that this solution gives you more option to pimp…
During the last US Open I came across with an interesting personalized communication solution from TaylorMade. Before I would explain what TaylorMade had done, let me share with you my social media experience. We are clicking on LIKE buttons…
Last week I mentioned Callaway Golf's udesign system that helps you to get the best Callaway golf clubs. It seems to me that the leading golf equipment manufacturers grasping the need of customized products. I still miss the…
Cooperating with customers (in our case golfers, golf courses etc.) in the past only ment, that they participated in the development and customization (custom golf club fitting) of the product, service. It seems to me that the crowdsourcing idea…
Nike long time ago came out with a running app that maps our running, how we are performing. Now Nike Golf made a bold and clever step and introduced recently a golf swing analyzer. Nike Golf club heads will have…
Two years ago I had already written a post about hickory golf. Recently I came across with an article about hickory golf championship. As you can assume this press release was not published in a leading golf magazine…
There is no day when we hear about a new social media platform is emerging. Intentionally I check them how we could use it in the golf industry (golf courses, golf HR, golf architecture, golf apparels etc.). This…
I have just came across with a golf video site that I would call it as GolfTube (the real name is Click on Golf. Unlike IMG Media's Golfing World, this portal is aggregating contents from all around the world…
I have just received an eDM from Titleist via Golf.com, about Titleist V1x golf ball. I started to analyze this ad and to figure out what is the objective of this campaign? To raise brand awareness and image?…
While we are complaining about how hard to keep alive our golf course, it seems to me that golf superintendents' life is not so bad (in the US). Golf superintendents' salary grew between 2005-2011 incrementally. Of course if…
Among many of our everyday activities like buying is becoming social. In the 2011 Social Commerce study of the National Retail Federation turned out every 5th US customer is using Groupon. Groupon says golf courses are one of…
I was surprised to read in the latest edition of The Economist (June 11th 2011) that in US people prefer to watch golf over tennis. I started to check worldwide ranking of US tennis players where I had…
Those who are familiar with the golf industry they know that KPMG prepares from year to year a survey about golf course development and golf participation trends. 2010 is not an exception. ;) Since the last decade of…