After a difficult year, Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. said Tuesday it expects its golf business to turn around in 2015. Dick’s executives said they expect the golf business to hit bottom during the fourth quarter–winter is traditionally a slow period for the category–before returning to profitability next year. The sporting-goods retailer’s Golf Galaxy division has […]
“Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at,” claimed Jimmy Demaret, a fabled American pro golfer from the mid 20th Century.Years on, the Middle East is proving very good at golf, indeed. The Jordan Open, the official national championship, was just held on November 14-15, attracting nearly 50 […]
Worrying new research on the state of the golf industry in Australia has found that the majority of golf clubs in the country are now in financial trouble. Golf clubs in traditional markets, especially the UK and USA, have struggled through the last few years, although the Republic of Ireland had appeared to post the […]
News flash! Data released by the National Golf Foundation (NGF) two months ago reported both the number of female adult and female junior golfers in the United States increased in 2013 over 2012. In contrast, during the same period adult male golfers in the U.S. (age 18 and older) decreased by 1 million – or […]
As we gain experience playing golf, we try to do more and more to improve in order to reach loftier goals and lower scores. We buy more clubs and more equipment, then work with our new toys to get better. And since we love the game and are fully immersed in the sport, we follow […]
It might feel like a virtual reality simulator straight out of science fiction, but instead of shooting phasers at Klingons, you’re taking a futuristic route to shaving a few strokes off your golf game. Golfers got the high-tech treatment when the Cal State Fullerton Golf Lab showed off their motion capture technology at their first […]
Welcome to The Takeaway, a rundown of current events in the golf industry. Each month, several key aspects of the industry will be examined by highlighting current events in areas including: golf product, marketing, players, and the state of the game. Let’s get started: Product: Oakley Golf’s Youthful Flare GolfWRX recently visited Oakley’s California-based “Design […]
There may be only 12 months left on their three-year contract with the European Tour but organisers of the Turkish Airlines Open say they are committed to running the November event until at least 2024. Ahmet Agaoglu, president of the national golf federation, said he and his backers were delighted to be associated with the […]
A wireless flagstick that silently measures pace of play and allows course operators to identify plodding groups is the latest weapon in the war against slow play. That forward-thinking gadget was a part of the conversation when golf industry leaders met at USGA headquarters in Far Hills, NJ, this week for the two-day Pace of […]
VISION 2020, the European Golf Course Owners Association (EGCOA) latest research project, which has been developed to create a roadmap for the sustainable development of the European Golf industry, has delivered its results in a groundbreaking and interactive new websitewww.thefutureofgolf.eu The website explores the key opportunities for the future of European golf, Friendship, Flexibility, Family […]
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