As seen in Golf Business July/August 2024 By Scott Kauffman, Contributor, Golf Business Heading into the middle of July, America’s three main stock indexes continued to reward investors with significant year-over-year gains, including the broad-based S&P 500 that...
As seen in Golf Business May/June 2024 By Scott Kauffman, Contributor, Golf Business At the dawn of the new millennium, Ford Plantation was being developed by a new ownership group with ambitious plans to create an exclusive 1,800-acre private sporting community....
As seen in Golf Business January/February 2024 By Scott Kauffman, Contributor, Golf Business Four years after the coronavirus pandemic sparked a rejuvenation in the golf industry, the 2024 golf season is shaping up to be another strong business year for course owners...
By Larry Hirsh, President, Golf Property Analysts Robert Dedman, Sr., founder of ClubCorp (now Invited) was once quoted as saying: “Clubs are run like nobody’s business because they are nobody’s business.” That philosophy was the foundation of what is now a much...
As seen in Golf Business November/December 2023 By Scott Kauffman, Contributor, Golf Business Every golf owner and operator in the business knows full well how their golf properties are used as influential vehicles for good in a variety of ways. Not the least of which...
As seen in Golf Business November/December 2023 By Scott Kauffman, Contributor, Golf Business - During a Dearborn Heights, Mich., city council meeting last October, after nearly 5 hours of serious and sometimes contentious public discussion ranging from policing to...
As seen in Golf Business September/October 2023 By Michael Williams: In the boom times for golf that were kindled by the Tiger Woods phenomenon, it seemed that everyone wanted to play the game. The demand for golf dovetailed with the housing boom, leading to an explosion...
As seen in Golf Business September/October 2023 By Steve Eubanks, Contributor, Golf Business Whether it’s ChatGPT writing college term papers or movie buffs debating the plot of the latest “Mission Impossible” film, the subject of artificial intelligence, or AI, has hit...
SPONSORED CONTENT Provided by: Hilco Real Estate Sales Due, in part, to the lasting effects of COVID, we are seeing a massive shift in commercial real estate. Remote working trends have placed office properties in a highly precarious position with record vacancies and the...
By Dan Vukelich, Member, Golf Writers Association of America, Online Editor of Alabama Golf News Cragun’s Resort on Gull Lake in Brainerd, Minnesota, offers a lesson on how a resort seeking to position itself as a regional golf destination can make itself attractive to a...