From the CEO
The Muni Discord
This month’s feature piece by Steve Eubanks does a really nice job illustrating the spectrum’s ends of how municipalities approach the business of golf.
Cover Stories and Features
Short, but Sweet
Par 3s, 9-hole Courses have Significant Impact, Despite A Smaller Footprint
Going with the Flow
Shaftesbury Glen Renovations Improve Drainage Issues
It Takes a Village
Renovations Invigorate White Bluff Resort
Survival Tactics
How Modern Practices And Managing Expectations Leads To Municipal Success
Case Studies
Hidden in Plain Sight
Identifying and Mitigating Unconscious Bias in Yourself and Your Workplace
Teaching Pros Under Fire
Golf courses around the country deliver golf instruction programs every day. This instruction is generally delivered by a golf professional. While many of these professionals are employed by the golf club, more and more clubs are augmenting the market’s demand by allowing independently contracted PGA professionals to use their facility.
Setting the Pace for Member Acquisition
Back in 2013, when mobile-based marketing was still in its infancy, entrepreneur George Stavros saw an opportunity to help the struggling private club industry stimulate membership sales through this type of upstart technology
Apply & Demand
And so, association members, ask not what your association can do for you — ask what you can do for your association
Montana Encourages Statewide ‘Staycation’
It’s no secret that avid golfers love to travel to play. In-state travel is of great appeal, saving time yet offering enjoyment for players of every skill level.
Neighborhood Visionary Rescues, Resurrects Skybrook
It’s the same old story, one that in hindsight seems so easy to spot. What were developers thinking? Why build so many championship-caliber golf courses, especially with debt service that could never be maintained? Now, they languish, sagging and grim like sad and disheveled faces on once tall and proud men
Up Close and Personal
Final Thoughts with Erika Mason
Final Thoughts with Erika Mason
Two Operators, Two Questions - Lightning Strikes
Twice this year at professional golf events – the U.S. Women’s Open at Country Club of Charleston in May and the PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta in August
NGCOA News
New App Making Big Marketing Push
Golf apps are nothing new. In fact tee-time booking apps have all but reached critical mass in terms of number.
Sand Valley Gets Into the Swing of Things
As a choice golf destination, Wisconsin boasts a number of well-known golf resorts with sand dunes, attractive vistas and activities aplenty