Golf Business Monitor

What European Tour Destinations’ 2025 performance should tell every golf club owner

Miklos Breitner — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:03:57 +0000

If you run a golf club or resort, the story of European Tour Destinations in 2025 is not simply industry news. It is a case study in how collective positioning translates into individual commercial gain. And the numbers behind it deserve your attention. At this year’s IAGTO European Convention (IEC) in Gran Canaria, 19 European […]

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One Tent, One Generation: How The Open Is Betting Its Future on Young Fans

Miklos Breitner — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:01:12 +0000

On the surface, a golden tent upgrade at a Lancashire campsite seems like a modest marketing gesture. But when the R&A announced its ‘Golden Tent’ initiative for the 154th Open at Royal Birkdale, offering a lucky camper a luxury bell tent amid the Championship week’s festival atmosphere, it revealed something far more significant about the direction of […]

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Asia’s First: How Plover Cove Golf Club is rewriting the rules of championship turf management

Miklos Breitner — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:50:35 +0000

When Plover Cove Golf Club opens its doors in 2027, it will do so with a distinction that sets it apart from every other course on the continent: it will be the first project in Asia to deploy Evolution (Low Rider) Zoysia as part of a championship course build. That milestone, however, is not the […]

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Troon International bets on direct booking to reclaim the golf holiday

Miklos Breitner — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:56:10 +0000

For decades, Troon International has been the quiet operator behind some of the world’s most coveted golf experiences, managing championship layouts from the Algarve to Oman without ever fully owning the customer relationship. That changes now. The Scottsdale-based giant has launched Troon International Travel, a curated booking platform developed in partnership with Dubai-based golf tech […]

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The world tees off together: Women’s Golf Day returns May 26 – June 2

Miklos Breitner — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:17:33 +0000

There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has handed a beginner a club for the first time, when uncertainty turns into delight. The ball finds the air; a smile breaks through. Women’s Golf Day was built around that moment, and for 11 years it has been engineered, deliberately and at scale, in every corner […]

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The New Fairway: How golf’s elite destinations are reinventing fine dining

Miklos Breitner — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:51:12 +0000

For most of golf’s history, the clubhouse restaurant was an afterthought — a reliable place for a burger, a recap of the round, and little more. Today, Europe’s most ambitious golf destinations are competing as fiercely over their kitchen credentials as they do over their course design. The catalyst is a generation of experience-obsessed travelers […]

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Titleist GTS Drivers Review: A smarter evolution in speed, stability, and fitting precision

Miklos Breitner — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:32:52 +0000

The new Titleist GTS driver family is not a cosmetic refresh or a marginal upgrade cycle. It represents a meaningful engineering progression built around one central idea: improving every major driver performance category simultaneously without compromise. That has long been Titleist’s design philosophy, but the GTS lineup may be the company’s clearest execution of it […]

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Promise and peril on the Caspian

Miklos Breitner — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:36:33 +0000

There are golf destinations that require no introduction — Pebble Beach, St. Andrews, and Augusta. And then there are the ones that stop you mid-scroll with the simple audacity of their geography. Dreamland Golf Club, perched on the Absheron Peninsula above the Caspian Sea, belongs to the second category. Azerbaijan’s only championship course has just […]

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How Shura Links is rewriting the rules of sustainable golf

Miklos Breitner — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:03:21 +0000

For much of its modern history, elite golf has carried an uncomfortable paradox at its heart: the meticulously manicured courses that embody the sport’s highest aspirations also consume enormous quantities of water, chemicals, and energy. A typical 150-acre championship course can demand upward of 200 million gallons of water annually, while its maintenance machinery burns […]

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Faldo Futures: A beacon of growth in the junior golf landscape

Miklos Breitner — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:59:31 +0000

The 2026 Faldo Futures season has arrived with a momentum few could have predicted even a few years ago. With more than 3,900 junior golfers already registered across Great Britain and Ireland, and nearly 900 players securing places in upcoming Regional Finals, the initiative has firmly established itself as one of the most significant grassroots […]

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