I ran across this little diddy I found on TimeOnline.com. End of golf boom could signal closures It could be that the economy will produce an opportunity for someone to pick up a golf course or private club or two and turn it around to get ready for when golf comes back. …
From time to time I am asked to review a business’ operations to find weaknesses and issues affecting their business plan. Since my interest professionally has been in the promotion of the golf industry I have provided a review of how golf clubs, private or public, need to look to developing their business plans …
As a sport Golf rules supreme in the business world. As a game Golf is a rock star to the business world. How Golf translates to the millions of potential business and recreation golfers who are online on how great and beneficial the sport and the game of Golf really is …really sucks. Why? …
The Golf economy sits squarely on the Business Golfer shoulders. Golf Economy Structure The spectrum of the golf economy spans from one side being the everyday recreational golfer, who plays once or twice a year and spends just a couple hundred dollars a year on Golf, to the PGA/LPGA Tour Events, where …
Like many of you who are reading this blog, I am a small business owner. Since my business circles the golf industry on almost every front I have to be very concerned with golf’s future. My business is to help those lost soles in the golf industry who are not familiar with doing business on […]
If you are part of the thousands of golfers like me who travel around the country playing golf, either recreational or hopefully for business purposes, then you are seeing what I am seeing..a change in Golf. Some of what I see is concerning and some could have reasoning based on the fact that golf is […]
In this recent article from the LA Times, Golf courses suffer as recession deals a bogey …it reports on how golf courses are struggling and some folding up in one of the biggest golf communities in the country, the Palm Springs, CA. area. This struggle for profitability amongst golf courses, public …
I get asked nearly everyday, if not every other day, on providing my thoughts on what will restart Golf’s failed economy. My response has been consistent in saying…I am Not Sure. So mark me down for a birdie for being honest. I do know for certain that I want to help. Not being a …
If it is not apparent, I am a HUGE fan of the LPGA and like any fan of women’s golf I am very concern with its survival. The new commission of the LPGA, Michael Whan, will be facing the survival challenges for sometime now. Like everything today that challenges every move of a business …
In today’s Billings Gazette, article titled.. Golf club optimistic about avoiding foreclosure staff writer TOM LUTEY, reported that the 52 year old.. Lake Hills Golf Club, facing foreclosure auction at month’s end, should be able to avert the crisis. Phillip Dahl, the Lake Hills Golf Club …
