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Golf Rewards – making golf good for business

POSTED ON October 1, 2017 @ 9:35 am

    Golf Rewards, one of Australia’s leading golf marketing companies, has announced its involvements in the 2017 GMA National Conference in Adelaide as Delegates Rewards Sponsor. The company provides a wide range of services to associated golf clubs and affiliated groups, mainly in the …

MPower Golf announces bonus live scoring module for GolfBox Tournament platform

POSTED ON September 29, 2017 @ 10:14 am

MPower Golf is excited to announce the addition of a real-time scoring module into the GolfBox Tournament platform. The new module allows players to live score during a round, giving more game control back to golfers. The live scoring module operates across smartphones and tablets, …

NZ Golf Industry Council launched to cultivate the game

POSTED ON September 8, 2017 @ 2:08 pm

In December 2015, New Zealand Golf and several other golf industry bodies gathered at the Royal Auckland Golf Club to form an initiative with the common goal to coordinate efforts between associations within the NZ golf industry. With over half a million kiwis picking up …

Millennials breathing new life into the stodgy game of golf

POSTED ON August 14, 2017 @ 1:41 pm

This year’s report from the The National Golf Foundation’s (NGF) on golf participation in the United States has revealed that millennial golfers are breathing new life into the sport. The study found that 36 percent of the nearly 24 million golfers in the United States …

Driving customer experience at Moore Park Golf

POSTED ON August 9, 2017 @ 5:23 pm

There are many different elements to the business of golf – retail, course design and maintenance, staff training, marketing, hospitality…the list goes on. At the heart of it all is a human wanting to hit a small white ball with a stick. The customer. How …

Members’ Wellness Program Launched at Kooindah Waters

POSTED ON August 2, 2017 @ 5:12 pm

Kooindah Waters Golf Club has been touched by the effects of mental health in the past few years. With this in mind, the club would like to announce a new wellbeing program open to all Kooindah Waters Golf Club members. The wellbeing program has been …

Researchers Find Link Between Golf and Dementia Prevention

POSTED ON July 23, 2017 @ 11:34 pm

Research commissioned by England Golf and the Professional Golfers’ Association has identified that golfers are 14% more likely to report good health than non-participants, significantly reducing their risk of some of Britain’s biggest diseases, including dementia. With dementia and Alzheimer’s disease now the leading cause …

Registration for the 2017 GMA National Conference now open

POSTED ON July 5, 2017 @ 12:38 pm

We are pleased to announce that the online registration portal for the 2017 GMA National Conference being held in Adelaide from Sunday, 8th October to Thursday, 12th October, is now open. Individual conference registrations can be made from the Registration Page on this website (see …

Hooray, Olympic Golf Recommended for the 2024 Games

POSTED ON June 23, 2017 @ 10:09 am

By Mathilda Andersson Perhaps surprising to some, the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board announced late last week that golf’s inclusion in the Olympic Games could be extended to 2024, despite all the controversy surrounding last year’s debut in Rio. Golf’s much anticipated return last August …

What’s next for Wembley Golf Course?

POSTED ON June 8, 2017 @ 9:00 am

Without doubt, the most positively rated presentations at the inaugural Golf Business Forum in 2016 were from the “Facility Showcase” speakers – managers/owners from three fantastic Australian courses whose honest, interesting and inspiring presentations were definite highlights of the two day program. It was great …