Courtesy: BBC Greg Norman certainly knows on which side of his bread the butter is found. Norman finished respectably in the top 20 at this weekend's BMW Asian Open at Shanghai's Pudong Golf...
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Courtesy: Scotland Golf Tours Scotland is bracing for a rush of major golf events to its shores. And various Scottish bodies are undertaking some high-level marketing efforts to wring the maximum...
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Courtesy: Tavistock Cup.com Players Arrive by Helicopter for Tavistock Cup What's with this Tavistock Cup? It's billed as a "fight to the finish" between PGA pros from two high-end...
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Organizers of the Faldo Series Asia have announced their 2008 schedule and it is growing. The Faldo Series Asia has added several new tournaments so that the 2008 calendar features 11 events in 8...
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2008 Mercedes Championship German automaker, Mercedes Benz, is stepping up its involvement in the game of golf. But it's doing so in a very clever way. The luxury car maker already has a high...
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What constitutes a hard core golfer today? The guy or gal willing to play in a downpour? The weekend duffer who drives two hours to play a track he hasn't experienced before but has heard about?...
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Courtesy: Today's Golfer The women's professional golf game has truly gone global. And it has been the LPGA Tour's salvation. LPGA players are starting to pull in some decent sponsorship...
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Courtesy: PGA.com Dave Pelz is getting back into the club making business. Pelz, of course, is that big bear of a guy who has made a very comfortable living by dominating the niche short-game market....
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Wentworth, West Course. Home of the World Match Play: HSBCgolf.com This past week has seen world stock markets take a big hit and more and more economists talking about global recession. When global...
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Courtesy: Getty Images The smell of money is a powerful scent and more and more golfers are sniffing the winds carrying that scent out of the Middle East. World number 17, Luke Donald, has become the...
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Tim Finchem has reacted to the European Tour's announcement of its own version of the FedEx Cup. Finchem says the newly minted Dubai World Championship, with its purse of 10 million dollars is...
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Golden West Golf Course, Edmonton, Alberta Take a good look at this golf course, as seen from space, courtesy of Google Earth. The next time they pass over the area to update it, you'll see an...
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Westchester Country Club, New York Courtesy: Golflink.com The first of the "playoff" events in the FedEx Cup series is in the bag. Has your pulse stopped racing? A lot was made of Tiger...
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Courtesy: Sun-Sentinel Newspaper Money sure swirls around in the world of sports and golf certainly gets its fair share. A lot of green flows to golfers as the result of their off-course endorsement...
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Golf is such a useful game. It can serve many purposes. It can be the sport that your doctor tells you to take up to reduce stress. So it is a healthy activity. It can be a pursuit akin to......
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A Typical Mansion at Mission Hills Here's a question for you: where is the world's largest golf resort? North Carolina? South Carolina? Arizona? Spain? Dubai? Texas? The answer may surprise...
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Courtesy: UltimateChase.com There's a new study dealing with climate change and the golf industry. I recently wrote about this subject after poring over available data and the conclusion was no...
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Every way you look at it, the internet has revolutionized our world. I have been reading a fascinating account of the economic changes wrought by the web in a book entitled The Long Tail. It's...
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Courtesy: The Caddyshack First, let me begin this Sunday post by apologizing for not delivering what was advertised yesterday. I spent a great deal of fumbling around trying to upload a simple mp.3...
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Courtesy: Deer Creek North, Toronto It strikes me that there has never been a better time to be a public golfer. I have mentioned in passing that I prefer playing different courses rather than being...
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Courtesy: Thornhill Country Club, Toronto Think of private golf clubs and you tend to think of parking lots filled with high end automobiles like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus and so on and wealthy members...
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Courtesy: Thornhill Golf and Country Club There's a private club in Toronto that has launched an innovative program. The club's general manager calls it a "win-win" situation. But,...
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