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Smooth operator

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Dan Loman

Having been in the business of producing golf tournaments and refining how professional events operate for close to four decades, Hollis Cavner understands the inevitable ebb and flow of the PGA Tour’s evolving business model. As CEO of Florida-based Pro Links Sports, which operates or consults on six events on the big tour and PGA Tour Champions including this week’s Valspar Championship, Cavner and his group have found the potential challenge of a fractured game to be a learning opportunity.
The coaching difference

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | Jim Nugent |Dan Loman

David Pillsbury, the CEO of Invited, says private golf clubs are catering to a shifting, dynamic demographic. Courtesy InvitedDavid Pillsbury is the CEO of Invited, the largest owner and operator of private clubs and golf courses in North America. Formerly known as ClubCorp, Invited currently manages 131 golf facilities with 163 18-hole golf coursesBefore assuming his current role in June 2018, Pillsbury held multiple leadership roles in the golf industry over the past 30 years.
Fitting fascination

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | John Steinbreder |Dan Loman

WILLOWBROOK, ILLINOIS | Nick Sherburne was a young teen when he started playing golf. His home course was a historic nine-holer in the town of Downers Grove that is best known as the site of the original Chicago Golf Club, which Charles Blair Macdonald, the father of golf in America, founded in 1892. And the youngster fell hard for the game.
Coming full circle

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | Lisa Goulian Twiste |Dan Loman

Nearly four decades after founding what would become one of the most successful golf apparel brands of all time, John Ashworth has returned to the fold as Ashworth Golf tries to recapture its glory days in the burgeoning post-COVID apparel market. Ashworth co-founded the company in the late 1980s as a California cool alternative to polyester-driven men’s golfwear, introducing a more generously sized cotton polo that set a new design standard.
Handicap home run

1 month ago | globalgolfpost.com | Jim Nugent |Dan Loman

A joint venture between the USGA and state golf associations has significantly increased the number of golfers with a handicap index. Darren Carroll, USGAOne of the downstream effects of the significant post-COVID rise in golf participation in America has been a windfall that state golf associations have received from the United States Golf Association.
It's time

2 months ago | globalgolfpost.com | Ron Green Jr. |Dan Loman

This story will appear in the February 10 issue of Global Golf Post. The time has come for the PGA Tour to be proactive about how long it takes to play tournament golf. There are generous pace-of-play policies in place, the emotional subject has reached a boiling point again and there is increasing evidence that doing nothing substantive is not an option. The world has changed. Attention spans are shorter. Options are greater.
Flying high

2 months ago | globalgolfpost.com | John Steinbreder |Dan Loman

ORLANDO, FLORIDA | Among the most surprising things about the global pandemic that began taking hold in early 2020 was the positive impact it came to have on golf. Especially the travel sector. To be sure, it took some time for that to happen, as golfers were grounded for much of that year and 2021. But when they were finally able to hit the road again, they did so with abandon. To the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula, for example.
Threads count

Jan 23, 2025 | globalgolfpost.com | Scott Michaux |Dan Loman

The news and the numbers from the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires are staggering: 37,500 acres burned; 16,000 structures destroyed; 2,000 more damaged; 28 confirmed lives lost. That’s just from the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires as of Thursday. From regular communities such as Altadena to affluent enclaves such as Pacific Palisades and Malibu, the devastation will take years of recovery for those who choose to rebuild. Many have lost everything and will be forced to move on.
'Numbers always tell you the story'

Jan 16, 2025 | globalgolfpost.com | John Steinbreder |Dan Loman
Quiet efficiency

Jan 14, 2025 | globalgolfpost.com | Pete Kowalski |Dan Loman

The tenacity of soft-spoken Martha Linscott began as a high school golfer in Oklahoma. It continues today with Linscott’s matter of fact and unassuming way. In 2024, after a knee replacement, Linscott was the 2024 Kansas Women’s Mid-Amateur and Senior Player of the Year, winning the Kansas Mid-Amateur in a seven-hole playoff and qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, the U.S. Senior Women’s Open and the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, the third straight year she had done so.