The National Golf Course Owners Association Canada, the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association, and PGA of Canada are pleased to announce their intentions to collaborate on a new vision for their respective conferences. Continue reading →
Food and Beverage at Golf Courses It's no secret that golf courses struggle with food and beverage in their operations. We've written blogs before, like 'grow your food and beverage revenues' and 'food and beverage trends' but it is still a challenge. One of the biggest obstacles comes with pricing… Continue reading →
Most golf course restaurants we work with struggle financially. It's a tough business at the best of times. However most golf courses look for their food and beverage business from golfers. Few look at customers from a non-golf perspective. Continue reading →
On August 29th the LPGA Women’s Network and WE ARE GOLF's Women's Task Force launched its #inviteHER campaign to encourage current golfers to invite the women in their lives to start playing golf. The primary objective is... Continue reading →
For the most part golf courses are small businesses (on big pieces of land). Most don't have the budget or required funds to spend the needed a minimum of 2% of gross revenues on marketing. Continue reading →
How often do you personally perform an irrigation audit at your golf course? I know we don't do it nearly as much as we should. When we talk about an irrigation audit what we really mean is looking at each of the irrigation heads and understanding how they are preforming… Continue reading →
It's getting close to that time of year again, when golf operators across North America head to their annual zone, regional or national merchandise shows. It's a lot of work to prepare your open-to-buy plans, book hotel rooms and manage travel schedules. Continue reading →
Because of how we build the team when we start with a club, we will often change the gratuity (tip) policy. We always pay out 100% of the tip pool from each event, however the change is how we divide it. Our tip out for events always include the golf… Continue reading →
