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Golf industry enters new era of collaboration to keep growing game

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The leaders of five major golf organizations in the United States shared a refocused, collaborative approach to grow, protect and perpetuate the health of the game during a press conference today at THE PLAYERS Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The LPGA, Masters Tournament, PGA of America, PGA TOUR and the United States Golf Association, […]

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Golf industry to benefit from new PGA Member Development Officers

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The PGA of Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Member Development Officers in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Ben Doney (New South Wales), Mark Weir (Queensland) and Daniel Waters (Victoria), will take up their respective positions with the PGA in April. These three positions will drive the PGA’s Member Visitation […]

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The golf industry gets behind a new golf website for women

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A new golf website for women, GolfForHer.com, has just launched. The site is the product of a long list of partners: the LPGA, the PGA of America, the PGA TOUR, The First Tee, the USGA, ClubCorp, the Executive Women’s Golf Association, Golf Digest and GOLF 20/20, a subsidiary of the World Golf Foundation. This huge […]

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Golf Industry Looks to Hit More Green in ‘15

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Is golf stuck in the rough, or is it just a bad lie? That’s the quandary executives in the $70 billion golf industry must address this week as they gather at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla. seeking to get the much-maligned game back into growth mode. 2014’s gloomy golf headlines focused on fewer […]

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Women in the Golf Industry Launches Speakers Bureau

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Orlando, United States: Women in the Golf Industry (WIGI), a leading business networking group for women in golf, will unveil the formation of the WIGI Speakers Bureau during this week’s PGA Merchandise Show. The first of its kind in the golf industry, the WIGI Speakers Bureau offers corporations and allied golf organisations a convenient way […]

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Let’s fix golf

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Bad news for golf fans – our sport is teetering. Those in the golf industry will have suspected for some time now that the sport is in decline, but numbers released from a survey into the US golf market are worrying. They show that not only are fewer people taking up the game, but even […]

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Golf Courses are not Walmart: Are golf courses being driven out of the market?

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With the end of another year come the hard figures from studies done on how the golf industry is surviving. From 1986 to 2005, the golf course industry grew at a robust 40 percent with almost 4,500 courses opening. But since 2006, with all of the economic hardships, including the real estate market plunge, more […]

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Golf industry will stay in the rough without tax breaks says lobby group

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Canada’s Income Tax Act would permit a 50 percent deduction on luxury box tickets to last Sunday’s Grey Cup game, or on front row tickets to Taylor Swift’s upcoming Canadian tour, or even on a deep sea fishing adventure from Aiden’s Deep Sea Fishing Trips in PEI, so long as business is discussed with clients. […]

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Golf industry trying to hit out of the rough

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While the weather across much of the country has turned frightening, many people here in San Diego County and Southern California will include a round of golf during the Thanksgiving weekend celebration. To be sure, the golf industry — a major part of the region’s growing sports business community — has struggled in recent years. […]

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