Bogor, Indonesia: A more rewarding overall experience awaits golfers with the region’s golf clubs having to alter their mindsets in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Wee Peng Siong, a veteran of the golf club industry in Asia, it’s essential for golf clubs to recalibrate if they’re to survive and thrive. Speaking in […]
Augusta, Georgia, United States: Club Car is assisting its partners and customers with their heightened concerns surrounding Covid-19. During this challenging time, Club Car has developed several best practices and tips to help golf courses and their teams clean and disinfect their golf cars – both important to prevent the spread of Covid-19. According to […]
Bogor, Indonesia: Welfare and the well-being of its long-serving and loyal staff is a main priority at Riverside Golf Club. While many clubs around the world are being forced to lay off staff or cut their salaries, the award-winning Indonesian facility has been looking after each and every one of its employees during the Covid-19 […]
Lausanne, Switzerland: The International Golf Federation (IGF) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) have announced an adjustment to the qualifying system for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to accommodate the new dates of competition in 2021. In light of the one-year delay, athletes now will accumulate Olympic Golf Rankings (OGR) points through a period ending on […]
Bogor, Indonesia: Wee Peng Siong has called on the experience he gained as general manager at a 27-hole golf club in China during SARS to guide and inform him through the current Covid-19 pandemic. Recalling the 2003 virus outbreak, Singapore-born industry stalwart Wee said: “We would generally host between 95,000 and 100,000 rounds per year […]
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States: Troon has launched a new website that will help the global brand to communicate and market over the next five-plus years, while better connecting members and guests to Troon-affiliated clubs. The new website – www.Troon.com – was developed in partnership with Enspire for Enterprise, formerly doing business as Web.com for Enterprise, […]
Bangkok, Thailand: Thailand’s Thai Country Club and Thana City Country Club, Singapore’s Sentosa Golf Club and Cambodia’s Angkor Golf Resort took centre stage at 59club Asia’s inaugural Service Excellence Awards, supported by Golfbreaks.com. During 2019, data was captured from mystery service audits and benchmarked across all golf venues that 59club Asia works with throughout the […]
Singapore: Health and safety will be the over-riding factors as Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC) officials explore the possibilities of resurrecting a tournament schedule that has been decimated by the Coronavirus outbreak that has brought the sporting world to a standstill. Instead of representing the APGC at Spain’s La Manga Club last week in the Bonallack […]
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Golf clubs have an opportunity to reinvent themselves as a home-away-from-home in the post-Coronavirus era. Steven Thielke, Chief Executive Officer at TPC Kuala Lumpur, believes clubs around the region may be best served in the uncertain months ahead by reconsidering their standard operating procedures. “In the club business, we often talk about […]
Jupiter, Florida, United States: The National Golf Foundation’s (NGF) fifth week of nationwide surveys found that approximately 58% of US golf courses were open for play last week amid the coronavirus pandemic. As State and county restrictions continue to be relaxed, this number could rise to 75% or higher by mid-May. The changes last week […]
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Club members and their guests must brace themselves for a new way of golfing when they return to the region’s courses. Given the likelihood of more stringent rules being laid down by Governments in relation to accepted behaviour in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Steven Thielke says the onus is on […]
Jupiter, Florida, United States: The National Golf Foundation (NGF) has released the 2020 Golf Industry Report (GIR), a comprehensive overview of the business of golf and the health of the game in 2019. While the current state of the industry is understandably on the forefront of the minds of everyone who works in and around […]
Singapore: The Asian Golf Industry Federation (AGIF) has launched a new initiative aimed at serving the industry’s staffing needs. This week saw the commencement of a Job Postings segment within the new-look AGIF website at www.agif.asia Eric Lynge, the AGIF’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “There’s no doubt that the time is right for an undertaking […]
Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States: Golf Genius Software has provided a subscription credit to all its customers in the 46 countries where it conducts business. For most customers, the credit amounts to approximately 15% of their annual product subscription fees. “Sadly, the majority of golf facilities around the world are currently closed,” said Mike Zisman, Co-CEO […]
Orlando, Florida, United States: While golf courses across America deal with unprecedented disruption of their day-to-day business due to state and city mandates brought on by the Coronavirus pandemic, GOLFNOW is shedding some light on their most-pressing challenges by revealing results from golf course operator surveys taken in March and April. With the most recent […]