Toptracer, the world’s number one range technology and official ball tracking technology supplier of The Open, announces the site of the 2025 Championship, Royal Portrush, is now available on its platform at golf ranges around the world. Royal Portrush, widely considered one of the best courses in the world, will draw attention from all sports fans when it hosts golf’s original championship in July. Now, golfers will have the chance to play the entire layout virtually and test their skills against the best players in the world later this summer. “It’s a privilege to offer the host venue of The 153rd Open and one of…
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.
Lightspeed Commerce Inc. (NYSE | TSX: LSPD) (“Lightspeed” or the “Company”), the unified omnichannel platform powering ambitious retail, golf and hospitality businesses in over 100 countries, announced today a strategic partnership with Whoosh, an industry leader in modern operations software. This partnership reflects both companies’ continued investment in the golf and club space, and their commitment to supporting operators who want to modernize their businesses with connected technology. By offering a fully unified platform across scheduling, payments, and membership, Lightspeed and Whoosh are redefining what’s possible for private clubs. “By integrating Lightspeed with Whoosh’s intuitive reservation and agenda tools, we’re giving Private…
Golf VX, the industry’s most advanced indoor golf simulator company, today announces a milestone franchise expansion with opening of its newest location, Golf VX Boston, at 127 Faunce Corner Road, North Dartmouth, MA, and Grand Opening scheduled for June 2025. This marks Golf VX’s second U.S. franchise following the successful launch of Golf VX Arlington Heights in 2024 and underscores Golf VX’s plans for rapid nationwide growth in premier indoor golf entertainment franchises through Play Golf VX. “With Golf VX Boston, we’re bringing the ultimate indoor golf destination to New England,” said Kyu Choi, Founder & CEO of Golf VX.…
In our last piece, we introduced Club Caddie’s bold approach to modernizing food and beverage operations across golf clubs. Now, we’re going behind the scenes — exploring how the idea for their new mobile app took shape, what challenges the team faced during development and the thoughtful additions that set this solution apart in the marketplace. SH: From Clover to Custom: Evolving for Full-Service Excellence Club Caddie’s original mobile tool, built around the Clover Flex, delivered a solid F&B solution for beverage carts and mobile ordering. But as more clubs began to lean into full-service dining, the team recognized an…
In recent years, we’ve seen a dramatic shift across the daily fee golf landscape as savvy operators have adjusted their business model to capitalize on an opportunity to create steady, recurring revenue streams from their core customers. As a result, public golf courses are changing how they make money — taking a page from the book of private clubs. Rather than relying on a larger pool of golfers who play a few times each season, daily fee operators are trying something different. They’re moving towards a model built around retaining a base of golfers paying a regular fee, like a…
Club Car, a global leader in golf cars, low-speed utility vehicles and personal-use transportation, today announced the appointment of Craig Scanlon as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective June 9, 2025. Scanlon succeeds Mark Wagner, who announced his retirement in March. With over two decades of executive leadership experience, Scanlon has held key officer roles in both private equity-owned and Fortune 500 organizations, most recently as CEO of K&N Engineering. His career spans the industrial, powersports and automotive aftermarket sectors, including 18 years at Polaris where he rose to the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Scanlon began his career in…
Pioneers in golf cart batteries Listen to our interview with CTO at Trojan Batteries Jon Anderson Trojan Battery Company draws on 100 years of innovation to provide a range of batteries to fit your golf cart and low speed electric vehicle applications. As the original creator of the golf cart battery, Trojan is the most trusted battery brand providing innovative, high performing, dependable, and safe products across multiple technologies. Our products are designed and assembled in the USA with highly responsive customer service and technical support for your peace of mind.
The biggest tech brands in golf gathered last month in the town that is busy gearing up to welcome hundreds of thousands of tourists to Royal Portrush Golf Club for The Open Championship in July. Organised by Aboo Tayub, the founder of Golf Business Technology, the event brought together leaders from major golf businesses like Inrange, GolfNow, NGCOA, Trackman, Burhill Golf and Leisure, Carr Golf Group, GEO Foundation and Toptracer for 3 days of information sharing and industry shaping seminars. The highlight no doubt was a keynote speech by Sir Nick Faldo – who spoke about non-traditional ways to experience…
Al Houara Golf Club in Morocco is celebrating a successful first year under the Troon International division management as a Troon Golf branded facility. After engaging Troon International – the international division of Troon, the world’s largest golf hospitality management company – at the end of 2023, the facility has seen remarkable growth through enhanced operations and significant financial improvements. The venue has also recruited respected industry professional Cameron Procter as new Director of Golf, overseeing the 18-hole course and associated facilities. Procter, who previously served as Corporate Director of Golf for Lopesan Hotels and has held management positions at…
Yas Links Abu Dhabi will be home to the first PLATFORM Golf units in the Middle East with the installation of three game-changing platforms in the new state-of-the-art academy. The Kyle Phillips-designed course, considered among the finest in the region, is celebrated for its elite coaching and instruction—now further enhanced by PLATFORM Golf’s groundbreaking technology. With the ability to integrate with any major golf simulator technology, each platform adds new depths of realism to the virtual experience by allowing players to make a putt on a real tilting green and practice shots from uneven lies, closing the gap between on and off-course…