By John Brown, CEO, Brown Golf Management How would you optimize green fee and cart fee revenue on premium days? This is an actual interview question I ask head golf professionals and general managers whenever I’m looking to bring them in to...
Cathy Harbin, PGA, LPGA, Pine Ridge Golf Course, NGCOA Board Member & Del Ratcliffe, PGA, Ratcliffe Golf Services; Lucas Boyd, President of Boyd, Shackelford, Barnett & Dixon, LLC (BSBD Group) & Matt Brost, EVP of BSBD Group In this Owner to Owner segment, Cathy Harbin, PGA, LPGA ,...
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 Steve Eubanks, Contributor, Golf Business Golf operators cannot be experts in everything. Despite the 10-ball juggling act that most go through on a daily basis, managing hundreds of acres of finely manicured agricultural land, forests, streams, ponds and...
As seen in Golf Business July/August 2021 By Steve Eubanks: The late Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman called inflation “taxation without legislation.” Friedman argued that inflation is the most scurrilous and pernicious tax of all because no politician voted for it, no one...
Calling all golf course owners and operators: Are you prepared to meet the needs of millennials, a generation of golfers that are flocking to the sport and making waves across the industry? Matt Weinberger, Director of Operations with Nextgengolf, breaks down their recently released 5th annual...
New communications partner HQ98 helps golf courses improve productivity, customer service, safety and profitability with industry leading devices Charleston, S.C. (June 8, 2021) - The National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA) today announced a partnership with HQ98, the largest...
By Doug McPherson, Contributor, Golf Business The decision to enter the world of non-golf revenue back in the late 1970s was an easy one for Kathy Aznavorian. “Some customers asked us to do steak dinners for group and league outings. We listened...
In this owner to owner segment, Allison George of Toad Valley Golf Course and Jeff Hoag, Scott Lake Golf & Practice Center discuss golf at their facilities coming out of a year of Covid, the high-demand and interest in golf. Where will the staff come from to support unprecedented levels of...
By Steve Eubanks, Contributor, Golf Business If you could go back in time and talk to your great grandparents, you’d learn a lot. You’d also surprise them no end. Imagine the looks on their faces if you told them that major beverage companies could pour...