Author: Aboo Tayub

FAIRWAYiQ, Inc announces an agreement with TLC Global Solutions LLC to serve as independent sales representation in North American markets. Tom Cox and Jim Ireland are golf industry veterans who as a team bring to TLC Global Solutions a combined 72 years of successful golf industry experience to FAIRWAYiQ and the other premium brands that TLC represents. Tom and Jim were most recently leaders at Tagmarshal in the US region. “I am thrilled to be working with TLC Global Solutions and specifically with Tom and Jim,” says Dave Vanslette, Founder and CEO of FAIRWAYiQ. “We have a shared vision to…

Golfers have been given a double incentive to visit Lisbon this autumn with the chance to combine a holiday offering the best-value golf in Europe with a ringside seat to watch the leading players in the world at the 43rd Ryder Cup. ORIZONTE – Lisbon Golf – Portugal’s leading golf management company – is serving a treat for golf fans in September with its ‘Ryder Cup ’21’ packages, with prices starting from €399 per person. Bookable from September 23-26, the three-night, three-round breaks feature golf on an array of ORIZONTE’s championship courses, daily bed-and-breakfast hotel accommodation, free practice balls, a…

Leading figures from across the golf industry were full of praise for North Foreland’s Northcliffe Course as they gathered at the Kent club during Open week. As part of a golf day organised by Legacy Golf Advisors (LGA) in aid of the Golf Foundation, attendees had the chance to play the club’s unique 18-hole par-three Northcliffe Course, before a networking event and lunch. Guests included representatives from the Golf Foundation, PGA, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Golf, leading media outlets Golf Monthly and National Club Golfer, Club Car, Toro, Golf Genius, Sports Marketing Surveys and Azalea. The Northcliffe Course is the…

The 24-year-old Collin Morikawa marched his way into the history books with an impressive win at The Open Championship at Royal St. George’s Golf Club. His 265 total was just one shot shy of the 72-hole tournament scoring record and was good enough for a two-shot victory. With his win Morikawa became the first player to win two different majors on their first attempt and joined Gene Sarazen, Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, and SuperStroke ambassador Jordan Spieth as the only players in the last 100 years with multiple major wins before age 25. He…

Drive Shack Inc. (NYSE: DS), a leading owner and operator of golf-related leisure and entertainment businesses, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement with global golf superstar Rory McIlroy and his team. Their investment partnership, Symphony Ventures, will make a strategic investment in Puttery, Drive Shack Inc.’s newest competitive socializing and entertainment golf experience. Puttery is an immersive, unique and one-of-a-kind entertainment golf experience – it is an exciting and logical partnership for me and my investment group,” McIlroy said. “I have been collaborating with the Drive Shack team for more than two years on Puttery and have remained…

Annual FedExCup event now World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba Today Mayakoba and the PGA TOUR introduced World Wide Technology, a $13 billion technology solutions provider, as title sponsor for the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba in a seven-year partnership that extends through 2027. The 15th annual event, hosted at El Camaleá³n Golf Club at Mayakoba on Mexico’s Riviera Maya, will be held November 1-7, 2021, with Norway’s Viktor Hovland expected to defend his 2020 title. Hovland, who will represent Norway in the 2020 Summer Olympics, claimed his second career PGA TOUR victory last December in Mexico with a…

Golf Business Technology talks to CEO – Morten Bisgaard Players 1st is a SaaS (software as a service) customer experience platform designed to help golf clubs retain and recruit players. Featuring a digital dashboard, the service uses innovative surveys to give club managers the ability to quickly analyze customer experience feedback. This information gives them the power to make the right moves to improve player satisfaction and loyalty. Players 1st CEO Morten Bisgaard and his cofounder Jacob Buksted were looking for a hobby project to bring some energy to their new consultancy. Since they were both amateur golfers, they started…

Royal Dornoch have officially launched their bee project as part of their environmental activity. The Highland club have added hives on the renowned links to help with the work of the valuable insect. The bees and hives – and their continued upkeep – have been generously sponsored by member George Lengvari in memory his father. George’s father, George Lengvari Sr, excelled in the art of beekeeping at Cromarty House in nearby Cromarty and eventually earned Master Beekeeper’s Certificate #249 from the Scottish Beekeepers Association in 1950. Royal Dornoch are active in promoting sustainable golf and working with GEO (Golf Environment…

On his Open Championship debut, world no. 4 Collin Morikawa collects his second major at Royal St. George’s Golf Club, England. In his very first Open Championship, Team TaylorMade’s Collin Morikawa lifted the Claret Jug to become the Champion Golfer of the Year at Royal St. Georges with a final score of 265 (-15 with rounds of 67-64-68-66). As the question came through to me from Collin, I just told him I needed to think about it. He’s just that type of guy that nothing is going to change unless there’s an out-and-out reason to change, and he just felt…