Ten-year-old Jason Kopco already plays a fine golf game for a kid. So why did he join The First Tee of Cleveland, an organization that teaches youths how to play golf?More>>

They're known as the Big Three in golf's universe. In fact, they're such luminous stars in that universe that the trio - Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player - is known as much by their first names as they are for their surnames.More>>

Golf courses can boost business - and grow the game - by serving their clientele to the maxMore>>

The First Tee works. It might be the only golf organization that delivers on its mission: to teach life lessons through sport. Of course, that sport is golf. And the members of First Tee chapters around the world are some of the most exceptional young adults I've ever met. They look you in the eyes...More>>

Following the 9/11 attacks, Golfdom's editorial team asked me to contemplate golf's place in a vastly different world. I railed on about the need for more native golf, questioned how high-end golf properties could lead to a successful future, and I touched upon the disastrous influence of club...More>>

Outside influences come into every business's door, whether they are buying habits, demographics or something else.More>>

Stock market slumps, housing halts and a manufacturing exodus have foiled traditional urban prosperity, and golf clubs are on the list of industries taking a hit. Many golf clubs are losing more from attrition than they are gaining in new members.More>>

ClubCorp is making its golf courses shorter and easier. Way shorter, less than 5,000 yards in most cases.More>>

As a peculiar precursor to spring's rebirth, turkey vultures return to Hinckley, Ohio, each March 15. Their homecoming might be thousands of years old, but naturalists just noticed the phenomenon about 100 years ago. So each year, hundreds of spectators converge to get a glimpse of the unlikely...More>>

Growing the game at the property level can capture additional rounds and revenue.More>>