Most of the avid golfers around the world never envisioned they would never see the day Tiger Woods would not be in the top ten players in the world. Most country clubs and golf clubs around the country felt they would never see day when their club’s memberships would not be full and the golf […]
How to Make Time for Golf
One of the biggest issues I hear from golfers has to do with the Time Factor. Many golfers who have businesses just find playing golf takes up too much of their time. Truly, finding time to do anything takes effort. What opens up time during the business day to play golf is when the business […]
The Changes Country Clubs and Golf Clubs Have to Make
Just because the first Major Professional Golf event is out of the way does not mean all is hunky-dory now in the golf economy. Nor does the lack of my reporting on golf’s economy mean things in Golf are back to 2005 levels. “What I Really Want” Since my last summer review of What Private […]
Golf’s Survival Depends on…
I speak with golfers and business people nearly every day and some of the things they say about golf are concerning. On the other hand, what they are saying about business shows some hope. Now, if I could get these concerns together I could help golf survive. My motto of asking people how I can […]
Green Fees are going UP!?!?!
I had to read the following ‘blip’ of an article in the NGF Newsletter twice to make sure I understood what Jim Koppenhaver was saying. Raise Green fees to become more profitable??? Geesh, does he want to kill golf all together?