By Harvey Silverman, Contributor, Golf Business | Silverback Golf Marketing Let’s call it the “2025 Orlando Tee Time Summit,” a meeting organized by NGCOA CEO Jay Karen and several Google personnel involved with its tee-time search initiative, which also included a few golf...
By Steve Eubanks, Contributor, Golf Business For most, the whole thing seems squishy, the kind of concept that everyone talks about in vague terms, but no one can clearly define. Golf operators are no different. You hear speeches or go to seminars or read stories about ...
By Michael Williams, Contributor, Golf Business As I have often mentioned, I started my career in golf at the courses in Washington, DC that are now known as the National Links Trust. These courses were the entry point for millions of golfers over the years, and on any given...
By Stuart Lindsay, Principal at Edgehill Golf Advisors . Recently, the National Golf Course Owners Association initiated some efforts to encourage municipally owned golf courses’ membership in their group. If we understand correctly, board action was taken to sanction what...
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...
By Harvey Silverman, Contributor, Golf Business | Silverback Golf Marketing My last Golf Business WEEKLY article revealed more about the sudden Google partnership with GolfNow and illustrated Google’s intent to connect to all golf courses’ online booking capabilities. I can...
By Harvey Silverman, Contributor, Golf Business | Silverback Golf Marketing We could say it’s late to the party. After all, for years, Google has enabled a long list of businesses to make it easy for customers to make reservations for everything from hotels to doctors,...
As seen in Golf Business May/June 2024 By Harvey Silverman, Contributor, Golf Business | Silverback Golf Marketing Chance meetings are sometimes the most remarkable. With a few hours to kill in arguably the country’s worst airport, Orlando International, I...
As seen in Golf Business May/June 2024 By Doug McPherson, Contributor, Golf Business . These days, the PGA TOUR is proving itself a winner long before its tournaments even start. Consider the 2024 PGA Championship at Louisville, Kentucky's Valhalla Golf Club,...
As seen in Golf Business May/June 2024 By Scott Kauffman, Contributor, Golf Business For golf facility owners looking for more reasons to be bullish about the golf business, recently published data from Leisure Investment Properties Group, LLC. points to another...