While it looked from the outside like the ambitious four-season resort community in Heber City, Utah might become a lost cause, those behind the project never lost faith—and are now rapidly making up for lost time. Utah has been called “the new Colorado,” with Park City gaining the most prominence within the state as a…
Tartan Fields GC Rebrands as The Club at Tartan Fields
“The name change is about the evolution of the club’s personality and character; we have grown to be so much more than a golf club,” said Rick Burkardt, General Manager of the Dublin, Ohio club, which is home to an Arnold Palmer Signature golf course. A $2.1 million clubhouse transformation, new fitness center and expanded…
Swan Lake Resort Up For Sale
The 400-acre Plymouth, Ind. property, which houses 36 holes of golf along with a hotel, cabins and restaurants, was recently listed for sale with a reported asking price of $6.5 million. The property’s revenue growth in the past three years has been “just short of astounding,” according to General Manager Kevin Smith, but the current…
Blackhawk CC Unveils New $5.3M Fitness and Wellness Center
The Danville, Calif. property announced the opening of the 9,400-sq. ft. facility after a five-year development process and over a year of construction. The project, which took five years to complete, transitions the club from an unstaffed, self-service fitness-center model to a state-of-the-art, full-service facility. Blackhawk Country Club in Danville, Calif., has announced the opening…
Mammoth Success
Mike Keiser and his family members are playing an increasingly influential role in the game of golf. And keeping their glass more than half-full in the process. Is golf’s glass half-full, or half-empty? Readers of the recently released Annual Golf Industry Report from the National Golf Foundation (NGF) will tell you that, despite the ongoing…
Class Acts
New golf instructional facilities with the latest and greatest teaching tools- plus appealing extra features that make students happy to come to school- are getting high marks at clubs across the country. As members look to improve their handicaps on the golf course, clubs are heeding the call for instructional spaces that can be outfitted…
Procraft Heritage Creations—Golf & Tennis Shops, Clubhouses, and Locker Rooms
Features: • Work with designers and architects in designing manufacturing and installing the finest shops. • Have built 61 of the top 75 best golf shops, as published by Golf World Business. • Space planners and designers develop not only beautiful but also functional and profitable shops. • Can work within budget constraints at all…
CNBC: Millennials, Women Breathe Life into Golf
With Under Armour’s golf category growing 25% in the past three years and the introduction of Foray Golf, which specializes in golf apparel for young women, both millennials and women are being drawn to the sport, with off-course facilities like Topgolf leading the charge. Millennial golfers are breathing life into the sport despite a steady stream…
Waynesboro CC’s Junior Golf Camp Aims to Grow the Game
Ninety-three aspiring players participated in the four-day camp where they learned golf fundamentals thanks to pros from both WCC and surrounding clubs. This past week, Waynesboro (Pa.) Country Club welcomed 93 aspiring players, between the ages of 4 and 15, for its junior golf camp, which was started more than 25 years ago and…
Study Finds Link Between CEO Golf Habits, Company Performance
Researchers examined the golfing habits of more than 350 CEOs of S&P 1500 companies between 2008 and 2012 who maintained a handicap with the United States Golf Association and found that CEOs who play golf more often were associated with lower average return on assets and lower market capitalization.
Bumblebees Learn to Play Golf in New Study
In a study that displays the insects’ cognitive flexibility, bees moved a ball to a small hole in the center of a circular platform in order to receive a sugary reward. An author of the study concluded that the behavior fulfills the criteria for being defined as tool use, which is typically only observed in particularly intelligent animals, such as primates and crows.
Scottish Physician Recommends Doctors Start Prescribing Golf
According to Dr. Andrew Murray, the health benefits of playing golf are so considerable that doctors should effectively start prescribing it. The walking involved in the game, plus the social cohesion it can create, helps golfers live about five years longer than non-golfers, according to a recent study in Sweden.
Pub Food Goes Gourmet
Executive Chef Michael Miller of The Harvest Golf Club in British Columbia, Canada, has put a new twist on the farm-to-table dining craze, according to Okanaga Life magazine. Executive Chef Michael Miller has found the median between out-and-out pub food and a higher-level cuisine worthy of being served on white linen in The Harvest Golf Club’s restaurant, The Harvest…
Golf Most Popular Alibi for Cheating Husbands
A survey of 2,000 male members of extra-marital affairs website IllicitEncounters.com revealed that 32% used playing golf as an excuse to spend time with their secret lover.
Taking F&B to New Heights
Planning a culinary event incorporating local produce may center on vegetables—but in the case of the “Dinner on the Roof” event held by Blackhawk Country Club in Madison, Wis., the affair was anything but garden-variety. The menu for Blackhawk CC’s dinner featured locally grown produce, and all but the steaks were prepared “sul tetto” (on…