We can all agree on that 2018 was a great year for the Portuguese golf tourism industry: Just like in 2017 Portugal won the World's Best Golf Destination title at the World Golf Awards. I go even further, Portugal…
Recently Silver Creek Valley Country Club (San Jose, California) has declared a new objective for this year. Namely, they would like to be among the leading private clubs in the country. Silver Creek Valley Country Club’s improvement plan…
The PGA Tour will continue with DIRECTV for another 5 years. In the new agreement/contract will include expanded weekend coverage of 4 PGA Tour tournaments each season for DIRECTV customers through the “PGA TOUR Experience,” beginning with this…
On Thursday IMG announced the acquisition of golf talent agency Icon Sports Management. Icon's president and CEO R.J. Nemer, the agency's founder will continue in the golf division at WME | IMG. R.J. Nemer will become IMG’s Senior Vice…
What a nice initiative to promote golf among women from Wilson Staff. Wilson Staff has just expanded its partnership with Women on Course (WOC), the nation’s premier golf-lifestyle networking organization (hosts more than 20,000 women at 2,000 annual…
I think I don't have to introduce you Martin Hall the famed golf instructor and author. Hall, a former competitor on the European Tour, has over 30 years of experience as a golf professional and is currently the head teaching…
GAME GOLF has just announced that the European Ladies Tour Pro Sophie Walker is joining its brand ambassador team. She will be the first female professional to use GAME GOLF in an official tournament at the Australian Masters…
As countries and companies do not pay sufficient attention to global warming for various reasons and excuses, I was happy to find the Robert Trent Jones II's (RTJ II) green proclamation and water guidelines. If you don't want…
Alexander Levy (official world ranking: 52nd), will be one of the brand ambassadors of Lacoste (other ambassadors are: Raphael Jacquelin, Jose-Maria Olazabal, Cristie Kerr, Azahara Muñoz, Gwladys Nocera) as part of the partnership. He was chosen to represent the new golf…
Stoke Park (also known as Stoke Poges) is joining the Zurich-based ‘umbrella' organisation The Leading Golf Courses of Europe. The number of member golf clubs of The Leading Golf Courses of Europe is now 40 in 13 countries,…
Professional golf legend Billy Casper died yesterday at 4:45 p.m. MT of a heart attack at the age of 83 surrounded by family at home outside Salt Lake City, Utah. Focusing on golf, Casper attended the University of…
In the last 4 months Clubessential and ClubSoft worked on finalizing the conditions of the acquisition. Now it is official that Clubessential acquired ClubSoft, creating probably the most powerful information technology vendor in the club market with 115 US…
Fife College has established a working partnership agreement with the multi-award-winning Fairmont St Andrews luxury hotel and golf club (e.g. IAGTO's European Golf Resort of the Year in 2012, award for ‘best large hotel' in the 2014 Scottish…
The Leading Golf Courses of Europe (LGCE), a corporation representing some of the continent’s most distinctive clubs, has joined forces with Europe’s leading golf-specific mystery shopper service, 59Club. LGCE runs more than 35 individual member clubs – including Monte…
I have just had an interesting conversation with a leading Finnish golf travel agency. We were talking about the challenges of golf travel agencies. She mentioned that too many golf travel agencies are popping up. This made me…
The importance of continuously evaluating the customer journey at your venue cannot be overstated. Daily your Clubs members and visitors arrive at your facility with an expectation. That expectation will be different for all venues, but as Club…
Probably not many of us can remember what was like the Essendon Country Club before 2012. Before the acquisition by Kieran and Liam Griffin, the 'maiden name' of the club was Hatfield London Golf Club. Its 6,808-yard Old…