I once saw a sign at a tackle shop in Key Largo, Florida that aptly summed up fishing’s universal appeal. The sign read: The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions of hope. Hmm, sounds a lot like golf to me....
What Tiger Woods Should Do Next?
After watching Tiger Woods’ press, err, prepared statement conference, on Friday, there’s little doubt his head is probably spinning with all the advice he’s been receiving lately. After all, the audience in that weird room with the blue curtain and wood lectern appeared to be full of corporate and sports rep types who probably...
Five Ways To Attract more Golfers to Resorts
With a few golf resorts filing Chapter 11 and others singing the low occupancy and diminished rounds blues, I’d like to offer a few suggestions to help them once again hear that magic phrase “Cha-Ching”. Here are five suggestions to get more golfers to visit your resort: Stop with premiums on your headliner course...
Tiger’s First Tournament Back
The speculation about Tiger Woods returning to the PGA Tour has ramped up the last couple of days and it got me thinking about what will be different when he tees it up again. Here are a few thoughts: Rest assured, Woods will be on his best off-the-course behavior. He’ll be so squeaky clean...
Golf Musings
IS TIGER IN ARIZONA? Tiger Woods might not be in Mississippi. Despite the tabloid reports that Woods is in a sex clinic in Hattiesburg, I’ve heard several rumors to the contrary. At the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando I talked with a couple of well-connected types who told me Woods has been in a...