By Jon Last, President, Sports & Leisure Research Group As seen on NGCOA's Research Center dashboard Business cycles are a never ending tug of war between opposing economic conditions. As we make our way through the peak of the 2022 golf season, we see the conflicting forces...
Charleston, S.C. (June 23, 2022) - The National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA), the trade association dedicated exclusively to golf course ownership and operations, today released its latest publication, the 2022 Golf Business Pulse Report . The report’s data, analysis and insights on...
By Larry Hirsh, President, Golf Property Analysts Just the other day, an old friend and active buyer of golf and club properties called to ask about how we’re estimating value in light of the surge in golf participation, rounds and membership...
By Jon Last, President, Sports & Leisure Research Group As seen on NGCOA's Research Center dashboard March of 2020 sure feels like a lot longer than two years ago. Yet that’s when we initiated our nationally acclaimed Back to Normal Barometer, with the expectation that we’d...
By Jon Last, President, Sports & Leisure Research Group As seen on NGCOA's Research Center dashboard For as long as we’ve been studying golfer behaviors and attitudes, we have sought to understand the major inhibitors to greater engagement and...
By Jim Koppenhaver, President, Pellucid Corp As seen in NGCOA Research Center's 'Latest Data and Reports' Dashboard September Golf Playable Hours (GPH) were unusually flat for one of our "shoulder season" months, registering +1% change vs. 1...
In the House Chat segment, on-course optimization experts Bodo Sieber, CEO Tagmarshal and Joey Walters, General Manager, Tagmarshal, our newest NGCOA partners, share their insights into how top golf courses like Valhalla, Bandon Dunes, Cog Hill, Baltusrol, Olympia Fields and others, use data and...
By Harvey Silverman, Silverback Golf Marketing I’m paraphrasing a line from one of baseball’s great movies, “Field of Dreams.” Watching the MLB version last week reminded me of the voice in the cornfield heard by Kevin Costner’s character, Ray Kinsella, “If...
By Jon Last, President, Sports and Leisure Research As seen in NGCOA Research Center's 'Latest Data and Reports' Dashboard Much of the industry banter surrounding rounds growth has been attributed to the perfect storm created by the COVID 19...
As seen in Golf Business July/August 2021 By Steve Eubanks: Rising costs are alarming everyone in the industry. With labor, materials and energy shooting upward at staggering rates, a lot of operators who are in the middle of renovation or redesign projects are panicked that price...