Golf Industry Central

The region might be closing doors in one area (the range in Singapore –
see Golf Industry Asia link), but it is opening windows in others!

These types of elite level initiatives are one of the reasons why women’s golf in Asia has blossomed, and turned Japan, Korea and Thailand into golfing powerhouses on the women’s world professional golf tours.

It seems that even the genteel game of golf cannot escape the threat of hooliganism. We have seen plenty of ‘incidents’ involving younger people’ at golf estates in South Africa, but the wanton destruction experienced by Evans Head Golf Club in Australia, defies belief!

Given the need for businesses to take the ‘E’ in ESG (environmental responsibility, social responsibility and governance) ‘seriously’, when a golf facility creates an environment to conserve endangered species of wildlife within a secure sanctuary, it should be ‘big’ news; Cape Kidnappers – please take a bow.

Mike Orloff’s recent trip ‘across the pond’ from Australia to near neighbours New Zealand, offered him the chance to reconnect with friends, and colleagues, in the land of the long white cloud.

A number of insights were evident, one of which was that golf faces similar challenges, irrespective of where the region might be.

The R&A’s new programme, which is in pursuit of golf course bio-diversity in Australia and New Zealand, and which should help to reinforce the game of golf’s ability to contribute to the expansion of green spaces in general, and particularly in urban areas.

Following on the redevelopment theme in the Golf Business News link, Sydney is set to see and initiative of its own, albeit on a much larger scale.

This project, at Cumberland Golf Club, will see the development and sale of properties in the retirement sector, providing the golf facility with an ‘instant’ community, which is right on its doorstep.

We have stated on a number of occasions that golf clubs need to sweat their assets to generate the maximum possible revenues. That said, they also need to protects their assets, and one of the most valuable will be the club’s cart fleet.

Golf Industry Central: Both thumbs up from us, as SHANX takes an old-style idea – putt-putt – and breathes new life into it with top class aesthetics, and reimagined layouts, which is just the type of thinking, and facility (on-ramp), to help encourage people into trying the game of golf.