Last week Troon had been selected to manage the Contra Costa Country Club located in the Bay Area in Pleasant Hill, California. The club’s 18-hole golf course has been redesigned in 2014 by Robert Trent Jones II, The changes…
For my Grow the Game Series I recently interviewed Rand Jerris, the Senior Managing Director for Public Services for the USGA, Jay Karen, the new CEO of the National Golf Course Owners Association and Derek Sprague of the…
I hope one day I will live through such a moment in a pro shop when I get personalized service and offer without wasting too much time there (instead of playing golf). Early this year, I recommended wearable…
Last time, my guest writer Rich O'Brien (from Charleston Golf News) wrote about the importance of women's participation in golf. Today, he will discuss the question of the sustainability of the game. I recently interviewed Rand Jerris, Ph.D. the…
It seems like Macdonald Hotels in recovering from a £6.5 million pre-tax loss in 2013. Last year their profit was £3.6 million. Macdonald Hotels as you can remember, agreed a 5 year finance deal with Lloyds Banking Group. Thanks to this deal…
Game Golf launched today, the Game Golf Live, as the golf industry’s 1st wearable, real-time shot tracker for both iOS and Android smartphone platforms. My latest information about the price of GAME GOLF LIVE is: £159.95 (it might be different). First, I hoped Game Golf is utilizing the…
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…
In the last couple of years UAE is among the the Top 10 Fastest Growing Tourism Hotspots in the world. Just in 2013, UAE's golf tourism grew by 10.4%. In 2013, Abu Dhabi and Dubai were the 6th golf tourism…
Club Car can be relaxed for another two years as they signed a new contract with Gleneagles Hotel (Scotland) until 2017. Club Car not simply extended an existing, longstanding cooperation with Gleneagles Hotel, but also to received an…
Hotel Reserva del Higuerón has just announced that they signed an agreement with Hilton Worldwide to become the first Hilton branded resort on Spain's Costa del Sol. The rebranded name of the resort will be DoubleTree by Hilton Resort &…
Callaway Golf Company announced last week their new Apex Muscleback and Apex Utility Irons. Both will be available for custom order online September 12, including on Callawaygolf.com. Apex Muscleback irons It is a new addition to the Apex Family.…
I tend to ask myself when I hear about a new golf equipment: Is this a face lifting or something really new? Last year’s major-winning Callaway Mack Daddy 2 Wedges was received very positively by many golfers. Probably…
I have just heard a rumour that Tiger Woods might not be able to continue to play as a professional golfer due to his injuries. This is why I thought to analyze a little bit the brand Tiger…
This week Michael Galasso (COO at golfscape.com) continues his previous post on how social technology is influencing on golf tourism: Perhaps it’s the remnants of the bruised trust many feel in institutions post-recession where word-of-mouth now rules, or…
I've got a feeling that social commerce is still in its infancy. The daily deal business has turned out be a tough one for companies like Groupon or LivingSocial. Both of them are struggeling in their own way. LivingSocial…
For offline media planners dynamic bidding for GRP (Gross Rating Point: is a term used in advertising to measure the size of an audience reached by a specific media or schedule) is not a new thing. In the last 4 years in the…
As I wrote in my previous post, average American mobile user is spending cca. 2 hours 38 minutes on his mobile and tablet on daily basis. Americans are spending twice as much time today with desktop media as they do with mobile.…
When we read in the Golf's 2020 Vision (by HSBC) report about the rise and importance of Chinese and Indian golf market, we should not neglect such golf markets like the Malaysian one. The Malaysian golf market's value in…
One of the greatest events in 2012 was when smartphones and tablets took over PCs. The battle between mobile operation systems (Android vs iOS) or Samsung vs Apple is little bit less important. IHS iSuppli Research says that…
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…