Golf Business And Management

Author : Tim Breitbarth,Sebastian Kaiser-Jovy,Geoff Dickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317351580

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Golf Business and Management by Tim Breitbarth,Sebastian Kaiser-Jovy,Geoff Dickson Pdf

Golf is big business around the world. With high profile series such as the PGA, LPGA and European tours to the re-introduction of golf to the Olympics at Rio 2016, golf occupies a prominent place in the global sport community. This is the first book to introduce the fundamentals of golf business and management from a truly international perspective, covering key topics such as media, club management, sponsorship and retail, at elite and non-elite levels. With sections exploring the development of golf on every continent, including North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, this book presents the latest thinking on current issues in golf, ranging from sustainability and innovation to global governance. Each chapter incorporates helpful features for students including learning objectives, discussion questions, guides to further reading, recommended websites and insights from industry voices. This book is essential reading for students of any golf-related degree course or professional accreditation programme, and will also be of interest to those studying or working in sport business, sport management and sport tourism. Underpinned by up-to-date literature, golf researchers will also find the book a useful starting point.

Author : James Graham Prusa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Golf courses
ISBN : 9798871573280

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Golf Operations Business Management by James Graham Prusa Pdf

"This book series should help anyone with talent who is honest, hardworking, and sincere to more readily, not necessarily easier, actually achieve great golf course playing conditions and profitable golf course business operations. The topics I’ve chosen to illustrate in this book are a real-world litany of the most common failures and real successes that I have confronted firsthand over decades of my actual business experience. Through many years I have turned to my writing for shear survival - for myself, colleagues, and employers. I have used the written word as a substantial tool in order to teach and convince others about how to stop failing and to inspire achieving success on golf courses. I’ve drawn every topic from actual business occurrences that have been observed or managed over my career of turning around failures into achievements and successful golf course businesses. Successfully learning to control costs and increase profits in food and beverage will also prepare you to directly manage control of the subtle facets of fertilizer costs for the golf course – and vice versa. The demanding maintenance methods and practices used for high-performance military aircraft are exactly transferable for successful golf course management. There exists considerable crossover in both the sciences and arts that must be applied to golf course business management, including physics and chemistry, as well as the arts and concepts of design. One can learn and apply management information from scuba diving and corporate management to food & beverage, and to golf course management. There are fundamental reasons that golf and turfgrass management employ generally archaic technology – changing from the archaic will provides better service and profits. There are logical reasons why perpetual, continuing education, and staff training will then require much less management oversight. Going forward, golf will only its full prosperity if the archaic, traditional compartmentalization of redundant management job positions can be tossed aside to allow individuals with multiple skill sets to be unloosed allowing businesses to profit. Today golf courses in every geographic region of the world absolutely need to employee fewer staff as developed nations depopulate and labor scarcity increases. Managers must also be individuals - simultaneously capable of wearing many professional hats with high proficiency."--Amazon description.

Author : James J. Keegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Golf
ISBN : 0984626891

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The Business of Golf - What Are You Thinking? 2014 Edition by James J. Keegan Pdf

The Business of Golf is a series of two books with a passionate focus on creating value for the golfer based on a foundation that produces a return on an investment for the golf course owner. The Business of Golf What Are You Thinking? functions as a primer for avid golfers, college students in Professional Golf Management Programs, and golf industry professionals seeking to refresh their knowledge on the fundamentals of the golf industry and operating a golf course. This book garnered widespread appeal, due to its singularity as a source that provides strategic, tactical, and operational guidance, It has been purchased in over 16 countries and is used by 15 universities and colleges in their curriculums. In contrast to the basic primer, The Business of Golf Why? How? What?, first published in 2013, caters to the seasoned industry professional. The book guides a golf course management team in creating a strategic vision, determining the resources to be allocated and the policies and procedures that require consistent execution, accompanied with 21 templates that can be licensed at www.golfconfergence.com. Both of these books represents over a decade of research conducted in partnership with golf courses worldwide. The perspective contained in both addresses comprehensible and executable principals that encompass a diverse range of subjects including architecture, agronomy, intellectual property, rate structures, social media, water utilization and yield management. While the insights presented are clear, the analysis undertaken was extensive. The principles in these books formed an integral part of a Clemson University Ed. D.D. dissertation in which 11 leading golf course managers operating 34 golf courses vetted and validated the principals herein contained. Assurance of identifying the potential of a facility resides in the application of the books' concepts. These books help the golf course management team and staff develop a focused and disciplined approach based on quantitative data to identify and mitigate the impact of uncontrollable factors (economy, location and weather). From understanding these fundamentals, the controllable factors can be leveraged to enhance each golfer's qualitative experience while ensuring a positive financial return on investment to the golf course stake-holders.

Author : James J. Keegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Golf
ISBN : 0692008411

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The Business of Golf by James J. Keegan Pdf

Author : James Graham Prusa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Golf courses
ISBN : 9798874027469

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Golf Course Business Management by James Graham Prusa Pdf

"This second book in this book series focuses on the physical management of the golf course and cost efficacy. This book will assist not only the golf course superintendent, but also owners, golf professionals, professional tour players, club boards, and operations managers as well. The topics I’ve chosen to illustrate in this book are a real-world litany of the most common failures and real successes that I have confronted firsthand over decades of my actual business experience. Through many years I have turned to my writing for shear survival - for myself, colleagues, and employers. I have used the written word as a substantial tool in order to teach and convince others about how to stop failing and to inspire achieving success on golf courses. I’ve drawn every topic from actual business occurrences that have been observed or managed over my career of turning around failures into achievements and successful golf course businesses. Successfully learning to control costs and increase profits on the golf course. The demanding maintenance methods and practices used for high-performance military aircraft are exactly transferable for successful golf course management. There are fundamental reasons that golf and turfgrass management employ generally archaic technology – changing from the archaic will provides better service and profits. Going forward, golf will only its full prosperity if the archaic, traditional compartmentalization of redundant management job positions can be tossed aside to allow individuals with multiple skill sets to be unloosed allowing businesses to profit. Today golf courses in every geographic region of the world absolutely need to employee fewer staff as developed nations depopulate and labor scarcity increases. Managers must also be individuals - simultaneously capable of wearing many professional hats with high proficiency."--Amazon description.

Author : National Golf Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : PSU:000045225499

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Successful Management Practices by National Golf Foundation Pdf

This collection of 76 articles provides insights into effective management in the golf industry. Topics include leadership, communication, motivation, strategic planning, decision-making, negotiating, time management, TQM & re-engineering. Some other articles deal with conducting meetings, human relations, incentive plans, adequate recognition of employees, cooperative buying plans, teamwork, handling disputes, managing volunteers, tournament operations, dealing with vendors, holding down maintenance costs, & dealing with workplace theft. |This is a NGF InfoPac publication. InfoPacs are bound collections of full-text articles, compiled & copied from various golf industry magazines, newsletters, & journals.

Author : Pat Summerall,James A. McNulty,John Creighton,Will D. Rhame
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000079229906

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Business Golf by Pat Summerall,James A. McNulty,John Creighton,Will D. Rhame Pdf

This step-by-step guide shows how to enhance fortune through the cultivation of new friendships and relationships while enjoying the game readers love to play. It tells how to properly structure a golf game so that it becomes both the ideal setting to create and promote deals, both small and large.

Author : Donald E McHugh,Mchugh,Donald E
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8122204732

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Golf And The Game Of Leadership by Donald E McHugh,Mchugh,Donald E Pdf

McHugh, a former executive with General Motors and Owens-Illinois, believes that golf is a perfect analogy for the corporate boardroom game. By transferring the strategies that work on the course to the office, chances are one will be able to stand out as a leader. The best golfers are passionate about the game and are willing to put in hours of practice. Similarly, according to the author, effective leaders are zealous in their convictions that their behavior will motivate and help others to succeed as well. The chapters - for each of 18-holes of a round of golf - feature leadership principles such as "Focus," "Courage," "Responsibility" and "Recognize Positive Results." Each chapter, offers numerous anecdotes about both golf and the business world. The book does not attempt to teach or train people to be leaders. The focus instead is to help you in your efforts to learn how to lead more effectively.

Author : James J. Keegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984626867

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The Business of Golf - Why? How? What? 2013 Edition by James J. Keegan Pdf

Author : David K. Hurst
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743223911

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Learning From the Links by David K. Hurst Pdf

For the first time, a seasoned business executive and avid golfer combines these two passions to explore what makes for top performance in each field. Management consultant David K. Hurst explores compelling links relating the two activities to explain clearly what every manager who plays golf may feel only intuitively: that there is a deep systemic connection between them. For on the tee, as in the boardroom, a player can't just hit and hope -- he or she must continually think ahead, contemplate multiple scenarios, and consider the downside of every decision. And then everything depends on execution. In Learning from the Links, Hurst clarifies muddled thinking in both management and golf: he deals squarely with the challenge of implementing a game plan and seeing it through. Hurst takes to task the current "head-down" instructional model used to teach golf and management. He addresses the huge gulf between knowing what to do in a given situation and knowing how to do it. This chasm is an ever-present hazard both on the course and in an organization: it keeps people from solving their problems and achieving their goals. By examining golfers' and managers' struggles for improvement, Hurst shows us why complex systems are so hard to change and how to set about changing them -- systematically. Using the latest thinking from fields as diverse as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, art, and anthropology, Hurst's primary purpose is to help his readers make sense of their own experience -- to help them learn more effectively. His practical advice is profusely illustrated with examples from both golf and management, allowing the reader to move back and forth between his or her experiences in both activities. Part business management book, part strategy guide, these are more than just lessons for one's game or one's office: these are lessons for life.

Author : Beate Pehlchen
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Golf courses
ISBN : 9783640916894

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Applying Yield Management to the Golf-Course Industry by Beate Pehlchen Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Tourism, grade: alle ECTS-Punkte erreicht, Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (-), course: Yield Management, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Yield management consists of two strategic levers: duration control and demand-based pricing . Golf courses have been willing to try managing duration but have been reluctant to apply demand-based pricing because of fears of possible customer dissatisfaction. While golf courses do us demand-based pricing when offering higher prices on weekends and promotions such as twilight specials and league play, they have been loathe to vary price by time of day, time of booking or condition of play. Golf courses operators may well have support for their fears in the fairness literature. Researches have found that customers will refuse to patronize companies perceived as unfair. If demand-based pricing in courses is viewed as unfair by golfers, the golf course may suffer a loss of business.

Author : Sharon Lilly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1575041170

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Golf Course Tree Management by Sharon Lilly Pdf

This the most useful information available to the golf course superintendent, course architect, and manager! It is written specifically for the golf industry, and gives you the tool you need to manage one of your course's most important assets--trees! Golf Course Tree Management will teach you the basic science, along with real world techniques to assist your in-house tree care program, to guide you in the selection of a qualified arborist and in the writing of comprehensive maintenance specifications. Protect your course's aesthetic beauty, quality of play, investment, and your job--this book shows you how!

Author : Robert K. Reynolds,John Raymond Hall,W. R. Luckham,Virginia Cooperative Extension Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Golf courses
ISBN : OCLC:52075220

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Business Management Techniques for Golf Course Superintendents by Robert K. Reynolds,John Raymond Hall,W. R. Luckham,Virginia Cooperative Extension Service Pdf

Author : John Nauright,Sarah Zipp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317500476

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Routledge Handbook of Global Sport by John Nauright,Sarah Zipp Pdf

The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures. This ambitious new volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the development of every major sport or classification of sport, examining their history, socio-cultural significance, political economy and international reach, and suggesting directions for future research. Expert authors from around the world provide varied perspectives on the globalization of sport, highlighting diverse and often underrepresented voices. By putting sport itself in the foreground, this book represents the perfect companion to any social scientific course in sport studies, and the perfect jumping-off point for further study or research. The Routledge Handbook of Global Sport is an essential reference for students and scholars of sport history, sport and society, the sociology of sport, sport development, sport and globalization, sports geography, international sports organizations, sports cultures, the governance of sport, sport studies, sport coaching or sport management.

Author : National Golf Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : PSU:000032244854

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Golf Manager's Handbook by National Golf Foundation Pdf

This publication was developed from the National Institute of Golf Management program co-sponsored by NGF & the Wheeling, WV Park Commission. This program has trained over 1,000 operators, managers, & staff members of golf courses. It is a very practical compendium of information on golf management, managing profit centers, the golf business & the facility, & on managing employees & golf. Some of the subjects discussed in detail are: establishing fees, accounting, contracts, outsourcing, the golf shop, food & beverage operations, golf car operations, alternative profit centers, course design & remodeling, maintenance, security, employee safety, liability, meeting customer expectations, training personnel, tee reservation & starting services, pace of play, player development, tournaments/leagues/outings, & advertising & promotion. This compendium of information is the next best thing to attending the school.