Golf Business

Is your temper getting the best of you? Are you too timid or conservative to go for it when it counts? Is your personality keeping you from playing your best golf? Every golfer, whether amateur or pro, has a dominant golf personality: a set of traits that sometimes helps you win - but sometimes lands you in the rough. By carefully observing professional golfers' behavior and analyzing his own students' successes and failures, leading mental golf expert Darrin Gee has identified seven basic personality types.

When properly applied, golf has the amazing power to introduce you to interesting and influential people, to establish lasting relationships with movers and shakers, and to help you reach your full potential in your career and in your social circles. In short, golf has the incredible power to improve your life! Robin Richter, former golf pro, has been playing golf for over four decades.

Have you ever wanted a hobby or small side hustle you could call your own? One that would involve fun, outdoor exercise, and potential for family time? Look no further. Selling used golf balls can provide all of that and more. This turn-key guide will explain in detail exactly how to acquire, sort, clean, grade, market, package, and sell used golf balls. You can dabble in this new pastime in a small way or go big if you so desire. It’s easy and you meet terrific people along the way. The information contained represents years of trial and error that you can avoid.

FairWays to Leadership teaches both advanced and novice golfers how to navigate a round of golf using six key leadership traits—curiosity, adaptability, empowerment, integrity, mindfulness, and strategy—at various leadership moments on the golf course. Listeners learn how to play the game and how to develop leadership skills and expand business networks through the interaction that golf provides.

Running a golf club is hard work, and for the average manager, there's a lot on the to-do list, from members coming through the door to dealing with the committee, from ensuring F&B is running smoothly to making sure the course is up to scratch. And that's before we even get to dealing with the staff! People management is one of the hardest tasks in any organization, but in a golf club, it can be even more challenging. This book is designed to help you navigate those challenges, keep you out of the rough, and run your club safely, legally, and profitably.

In the early years of Adams Golf, entrepreneur Barney Adams labored in obscurity. He collected six patents for his golf products, manufacturing fine equipment but enjoying no sales. Everything changed for him and his company in 1996, though, when he invented the Tight Lies fairway wood. Working as a custom fitter, his customers repeatedly asked for a club they could play from "long iron" distance, from 180 to 220 yards to the green. Adams knew the technical secret was to lower the club's center of gravity.