News Archive for 2003
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003
European launch for golf retail ‘guru‘
Première Golf 2003 introduced several new providers of products and services to the European golf business amongst which was Retail Business 101, consultants to golf retailers of all sizes, with the irresistible offer to increase their profit margins and reduce their inventory investment
Property market news
FPDSavills report on UK golf range and practice facility transactions in 2003, activity in the emerging development projects in the EU and make some predictions for 2004
Monday, December 1st, 2003
European Tour Yearbook – 16th edition on sale
Ernie Els won five events on The European Tour international schedule and claimed the Volvo Order of Merit award; Paul Casey, Padraig Harrington, Fredrik Jacobson, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Tiger Woods were also multiple winners; Darren Clarke won the World Golf Championships – NEC Invitational
Friday, November 28th, 2003
New concepts at FAIRWAY 2004
The Fairway Golf Course Congress with trade fair is celebrating its 10th anniversary on 26th and 27th February in Munich. On the day before the trade fair the FEGGA Road show is making a stopover and there will be a symposium on building golf courses
Thursday, November 27th, 2003
Sharper blades make finer greens
How Celtic Manor grooms better grass with Bernhard. The company offers free trials to UK turf professionals and will help out at tournaments
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003
Royal Liverpool teams up with Toro
The Royal Liverpool Golf Club is putting its faith in Toro to help prepare its famous links course for The Open Championship in 2006
Junior Cobra in time for Christmas
The leading game improvement brand is extending its product range to include new Junior sets. They will be available in the UK in limited numbers in late November for the Christmas rush and in more plentiful supply from January 2004 onwards
Biodegradable hydraulic oil from Ransomes Jacobsen
The Ipswich based turf equipment manufacturer, has launched a newly upgraded and reformulated range of Greens Care biodegradable hydraulic oil for use in all makes of turf maintenance equipment
Tuesday, November 25th, 2003
Macdonald Hotels in joint venture at Hill Valley
Macdonald Hotels has announced the formation of a joint venture with Albert and Tony Minshall to create a luxury hotel golf and country club on the site of the existing Hill Valley Golf Club in Whitchurch, Shropshire
Kenwick Park Golf Club gets BIGGA and better
The Club been awarded first prize in the 2003 BIGGA Golf Environment Competition sponsored by Scotts and Syngenta. Much of the credit goes to a group of interested club members who devised an environmental policy and management plan and the Club has established ‘local rules‘ to protect sensitive areas of the course
Aldila results
Aldila, Inc, a leader among manufacturers of graphite golf shafts used in clubs assembled and marketed throughout the world by major golf club companies, component distributors and custom club makers, reports encouraging progress which is reflected in positive results in the historically weak third quarter
Monday, November 24th, 2003
Council rejects Burhill’s Faldo Academy
Burhill Estate’s plans for a £3.5 million residential golf academy were thwarted last week when Elmbridge Borough Council rejected the application on a casting vote
Friday, November 21st, 2003
Pace of play workshop
St Andrews Links Trust has issued an invitation to all those who have responsibility for managing the pace of play, maximising return on a commercial complex and improving customer satisfaction on the course
Ten years on course
On Course celebrates its 10th anniversary in new premises and with an expanded product range
Thursday, November 20th, 2003
Scottish NGC closes today
Scottish National Golf Centre Ltd, which operates The Scottish National Golf Centre based at Drumoig, near St Andrews, is to cease trading with immediate effect. Eleven of the thirteen employees will be made redundant
Imants and Redexim join forces
Two of the world’s leading manufacturers of innovative aeration and decompaction machinery, have announced a ‘strategic marketing alliance‘. The union brings together two companies with a vast wealth of knowledge and experience in the manufacture of specialist turfcare equipment. However, the UK, Ireland, Holland and some other markets will be specifically excluded
WTB invests £500,000 in new clubhouse
The Wales Tourist Board is providing funding towards the construction of a world-class clubhouse for visitors to Europe’s first Nicklaus joint venture golf course, Machynys Peninsula Golf Club, near Llanelli
Wednesday, November 19th, 2003
New golf course for sale
The recently completed North Course at Wychwood Park in Cheshire is offered for sale with a guide price of £1.25 million
Tuesday, November 18th, 2003
Golf may receive new Sport England investment
Sport England has rationalised its funding from 75 to 2 investment streams launching £130 million fund for the governing bodies of 10 priority sports including golf. But in order to receive the money the EGU and its partners must produce a business plan setting achievable targets for increased participation and sporting success
TopGolf announces second site in UK roll-out
The site is planned to open at Chigwell, Essex, in March 2004 and will sit alongside a Holmes Place health club and Woolston Manor Golf Club
Dunmurry is AIB Golf Club of the Year
All Ireland Category Awards for Charlesland, Elm Park, Bantry Bay and Dunmurry
Monday, November 17th, 2003
TaylorMade introduces Rescue Mid TP
TaylorMade’s Tour Preferred line of golf clubs, which includes the R510 TP driver and rac TP Combo irons, will be available in retail from mid-November 2003
New operator at Stonebridge Golf Centre
Luddington Investments Limited has acquired a 30-year lease of the property which is located near Meriden, between Birmingham and Coventry
Burger is king with Cobra at world long drive championship
Clayton Burger’s massive 402-yard drive with King Cobra driver won the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship at the Palms Golf Course in Nevada, USA
Friday, November 14th, 2003
True Temper Sports results
Net sales on a year-to-date basis to September increased 9.2% to $88.8 million from $81.3 million during the same period in 2002. The Company states that retail sales for the golf equipment industry appear to be ‘rebounding‘
