Golf Business Review

Golf Business Review

GBR Friday | Can the PGA Tour Make the Challenger Series Worth Sponsoring?
Why The R&A has taken full ownership of DotGolf, is LIV Golf close to securing funding for 2027, and what Toptracer’s 29% installation growth says about…
 • Neil Hay
GBR Tuesday | From Major-Championship Trial To Purchase Order: Robotic Mowing Enters Golf’s Buying Cycle
Why Golfmanager’s Canada deal protects existing payment rates, what a potential $2bn Troon sale would signal, and Five Iron’s first UK opening.
 • Tom Miranda and Neil Hay
Five Robots, One Club Invoice: Royal Lytham Closes the Purchase Before This Week’s Women’s Open
Bought through an authorised dealer, not from the factory. The announcement never says what it cost.
 • Tom Miranda
GBR Friday | The quiet migration in the range business: from measuring golfers to serving the whole room
Why venues are replacing established range technology, Italy's potential as a major golf market, and a new $120 retail proposition.
 • Tom Miranda and Neil Hay
Go Low or Go Home: A New Margin Line at the Pro-Shop Counter
Play Nine proved a golf card game earns its place at the clubhouse or resort register. Go Low or Go Home wants the shelf space next to it, with a $10…
 • Tom Miranda
Not All Range Tech Is Equal: Why Operators Are Switching Their Tech to Maximise Revenue
A growing list of venues have pulled their ball-tracking systems for something else entirely. I wanted to understand why. The answer has less to do with…
 • Tom Miranda
GBR Tuesday | GOLF.AI Launches an AI Concierge for Golf Travel — Plus Hawaii's $3.4bn Golf Economy and the Asian Tour Reset
GOLF.AI targets the future of golf travel, ZEN Golf and Karl Morris rethink coach education, Hawaii mobilises its $3.4 billion golf economy, and the…
 • Neil Hay
GBR Friday | The Business Behind The Open's £300 Million Impact
ZEN Golf's latest step at Celtic Manor before turning to Topgolf Media Networks, the PGA Tour's new sponsorship landscape, indoor golf's continued…
 • Neil Hay
Newton Golf Swaps $2.3M of Debt for Perpetual Preferred — the Same Trade TruGolf Made to Stay on Nasdaq
Two of golf’s listed manufacturers are now rebuilding their balance sheets to hold their listings — Newton this week, TruGolf last year — plus the rest…
 • Tom Miranda
GBR Friday | Layoffs Hit LIV as It Hunts $300M, an Australian Start-Up Rethinks the Visitor Booking, and the Full Swing Deal, One Level…
Team equity and tax losses on the table at LIV, Currents Golf behind Tasmania's newest destination, and Versant's vertical play in off-course golf …
 • Tom Miranda
The Front Door Problem: Why 7 Mile Beach Handed Its Visitor Operation to Currents
A new Tasmanian destination with global ambitions decided its booking experience had to match its playing one. The choice points to a gap that generic…
GBR Tuesday | Golf.AI, Scottish Open Funding, and Full Swing’s $530M Technology Play
Today's GBR looks at Golf.AI in the pro shop, Scotland’s £6.3 million Scottish Open backing, Versant’s Full Swing deal, and what data, ratings and land…
 • Neil Hay and Tom Miranda
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