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 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,...
By Harvey Silverman, Contributor, Golf Business Tom Abts, PGA, Owner, Deer Run Golf Club A warm February day led to a dusting off of my golf clubs and a short drive to the closest practice range near me (Note – it’s a practice range, not a...
As seen in Golf Business January/February 2022 By Jay Karen, NGCOA CEO With this issue being published the month that both NGCOA and PGA will converge in Orlando, it seems like a good time to provide a little window into my experience thus far in becoming a PGA member. I publicly...
Hear from renowned golf instructor Will Robins (1:45 - 34:00) during his recent appearance on Golf Business LIVE with NGCOA CEO Jay Karen and Secretary of the PGA of America Don Rea. Find out Will’s take on the current state of golf facility instruction and his vision for future coaching models,...
By Doug McPherson, Contributor, Golf Business Some call it the big quit, others call it the great resignation – these are terms for the ongoing trend of employees voluntarily leaving their jobs from the spring of 2021 to the present. And golf...
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...
In this Inside Golf Business Edition, Steve Jubb, Executive Director of the National Alliance for Accessible Golf, discusses inclusion and their mission "... to increase participation of people with disabilities in the game of golf", offering resources to those with disabilities and golf...
September 18, 2020 Jay Karen, NGCOA CEO, and Don Rea, PGA, Owner of Augusta Ranch Golf Club and NGCOA Board Member, highlight the latest from across the golf industry landscape and speak to Jerry Tarde, who has spent four decades with Golf Digest as the Editor-in-Chief, about the state of the...