By Ronnie Miles, NGCOA, Senior Director of Advocacy . A federal court has struck down the Biden administration’s new overtime rule, a significant development that directly impacts labor costs for golf course owners and operators. The rule, which aimed to expand overtime pay...
As seen in Golf Business September/October 2024 By Steve Eubanks, Contributor, Golf Business WINTER PARK, Florida - It’s not like Florida, at least not the scene you experience on the east side of Orlando where giant Ferris wheels and water slides act as landmarks...
As seen in Golf Business September/October 2024 By Michael Williams, Contributor, Golf Business: I remember the very first time I tried to hit a golf ball. It was at an outdoor birthday party where someone had brought a 9-iron and a sack of balls. I was a decent athlete,...
As seen in Golf Business September/October 2024 By Steve Eubanks, Contributor, Golf Business Cities compete for your attention whether you realize it or not. It doesn’t matter if you’re driving down I-75 from Detroit to Tampa or if you’re planning a major political...
As seen in Golf Business September/October 2024 By Harvey Silverman, Contributor, Golf Business In rapid succession, I received two disturbing emails about troublesome golf course etiquette. The first was from a friend’s course in Minnesota that encountered a tensome...
As seen in Golf Business September/October 2024 By Doug McPherson, Contributor, Golf Business Steven Tingle worked for years as a superintendent and GM on his family’s course. Then his mom fired him. Now he’s living a new chapter: a novelist who’s returning to that...
By Michael Williams, Contributor, Golf Business One of the things that I appreciate most about golf is the experiences that I have been able to enjoy because of golf that are completely apart from golf. I have had the opportunity to travel all over the world to some of the...
As seen in Golf Business July/August 2024 By Doug McPherson, Contributor, Golf Business A new survey of golfers and club members is shedding light on how to grow golf and improve course operations. The survey, published earlier this year by GGA Partners, the...
As seen in Golf Business July/August 2024 By Scott Kauffman, Contributor, Golf Business When Scottish-born Colonel John Hamilton Gillespie relocated to Sarasota, Fla., and built a two-hole practice course in 1886, it became one of the oldest recorded courses in...
As seen in Golf Business July/August 2024 By Steve Eubanks, Contributor, Golf Business Since the late 1980s, Whitney Crouse, the Co-founder and CEO of Bobby Jones Links, has been on a quest to discover the secret to excellent service in the golf industry. In his...