The annual event featuring golf on the world’s first International Olympic Academy Golf Coursewill welcome a record 75 international teams Golfers across Europe have shown how keen they are to experience the Mediterranean’s prime sustainable destination, with places for this year’s Messinia Pro-Am at Costa Navarino having sold out months ahead of the event taking place. A record 75 teams from all over the continent will gather in Greece’s south-west Peloponnese from November 24-27 to compete in the fifth annual Messinia Pro-Am, which for the first time will feature golf across three courses including the world’s first ‘International Olympic Academy…
Author: Aboo Tayub
Aboo Tayub
Aboo Tayub is the publisher of Golf Business Technology and has worked in the business & technology publishing sector for over a decade.
Dundonald Links has entered an exciting new era with the opening of 18 luxury lodges, the latest phase of a £25m investment transforming the esteemed Scottish venue into one of the UK’s most modern new golf resorts. The collection of two, four and six-bedroom lodges opened to widespread acclaim in August and have been custom-designed with golfers in mind, with bag storage and drying areas, en-suite bathrooms, large living spaces and fully equipped kitchen and dining facilities. Darwin Escapes has already invested £1m in upgrading Dundonald Links’ Kyle Phillips-designed 18-hole championship course, including the addition of a new halfway house,…
ParOne and the Fire Pit Collective have established a groundbreaking partnership to bring high quality golf content to golf apps and the world’s most popular golf websites. Immersive content conceived and produced by the Fire Pit Collective will soon be accessible to more than 15 million unique monthly users in ParOne’s global network. Central to the partnership is ParOne’s proprietary modernization of how original and sponsored videos are posted, distributed, accessed and consumed. The company continues to enlist many of the world’s most engaging golf apps and websites to receive golf video content through ParOne’s automated distribution engine. ParOne is…
The first full set of Mizuno Pro 223 irons has gone into play on the PGA Tour – according to images from Golf WRX posted from the 2021 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas. The set played by a non sponsored player can be seen at Golf WRX. The Mizuno Pro 223 is a compact players cavity – smaller in size than the the model it replaces, the MP-20 MMC. However it shares a construction technology with the JPX921 Forged – using high strength Chromoly and a well hidden micro slot design. From an engineering perspective – the…
The LPGA and IMG announced today Chevron U.S.A. Inc. is the new title sponsor of The Chevron Championship (formerly the ANA Inspiration) through a six-year partnership. “Chevron is proud to become the title sponsor of this great championship, which brings together some of the most talented athletes in the world,” said Michael Wirth, chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation. “We look forward to partnering with the LPGA and IMG to further champion women in sports, the workplace and society.” As part of the sponsorship, Chevron will increase the prize fund for the 2022 Championship by over 60% to $5 million.…
Arccos – the pioneer of big data and artificial intelligence for golf – today announced the hiring of Lou Stagner as Data Insights Lead, working with a team of scientists, engineers and architects devoted to harnessing the power of golf’s largest and richest on-course dataset which now includes more than 475 million shots taken by Arccos members worldwide. A self-described “golf nut and data nerd,” Stagner has become a powerful thought leader in the golf data space by combining a lifelong passion for the game with his background as a business intelligence and analytics executive. Through his popular Twitter feed,…
The inaugural Egypt Troon Cup kicked off in Egypt with a match between The Allegria and Madinaty Golf Club, two flagship properties managed and operated by Troon under the Troon Golf brand. The match marked the first of many planned events between the two clubs designed to create friendly competition between the two Troon-managed properties. The match was played in a match-play setup with 20 members representing each club in a Ryder Cup format and fell on the opening day of the Ryder Cup weekend. Played on the Greg Norman Signature Golf Course, it was The Allegria who came out…
Working with the golf and leisure sector to help venues realise their sustainable goals, GreenClub has already made a huge impression in changing attitudes and approaches to the environment since launching last autumn. London Golf Club, host of the Cazoo Classic on the European Tour this summer, and Roganstown Hotel & Country Club in Ireland are just two of the venues to have benefitted from working with the specialist environmental consultants to further their combined aim of carbon neutrality. But GreenClub believes that the golf and leisure sector can do much more to help protect and promote the environment and,…
Created by Flite Golf & Entertainment, Atomic Range will span four stories and feature more than 100 hitting bays across 92,000 square feet – Golden Entertainment to contribute approximately seven acres of land for development to be leased to and funded by Flite Golf & Entertainment – Atomic Range expected to drive new guest traffic to The STRAT by offering a unique entertainment experience to the North Las Vegas Strip, Downtown, and Las Vegas Locals markets Golden Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:GDEN) (“Golden Entertainment”, “Golden” or the “Company”) announced today that it entered into a definitive agreement with Flite Golf & Entertainment…
Professional Golfer, Advocate and Angel Investor Teams Up with PitchBook Following Her Highly Anticipated Return to Professional Golf PitchBook, the premier data provider for the private and public equity markets, today announced it will be partnering with Michelle Wie West, professional golfer and winner of the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open. PitchBook will be supporting Wie West throughout the LPGA season as well as her endeavors in venture capital investing. Wie West is an early investor in companies like Tonal and Steph Curry’s water brand, Oxigen, and PitchBook will provide the research and tools to further expand her venture portfolio. “Associating…