Tag: National Golf Foundation

The chasm between golf and soccer

April 9, 2015 By
Spring is here, meaning that on Saturday mornings you can find me on one of three soccer fields at Laws Field in Eudora, Kan. I coach youth soccer. My daughter Evey plays on a 1st/2nd grade team, while my son Boyd ...

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The Golfdom Files Extended: The next 25 years

January 22, 2015 By
For the January 2015 Golfdom Files, we took a step into the time machine and brought out an article that ran exactly 40 years prior, from the January 1975 Golfdom. The Next 25 Years By Jerry Claussen, National Golf Foundation ...

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The Golfdom Files: The next 25 years

January 22, 2015 By
Forecasting what could impact the immediate and long-term future of golf is not an uncommon concept for this publication. ¶ In the January 1975 issue of Golfdom, Jerry Claussen, a consultant for the National Golf Foundation’s Rocky Mountain Region, took ...

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SNAGing more golfers

January 22, 2015 By
How SNAG Golf and SNAG Futbol plan to get more kids in the game. One of my favorite old sayings is, “Be careful what you wish for.” It conjures up all sorts of ideas when applied to golf. We all ...

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2014 All-Access Pass

December 16, 2014 By and
Golfdom traveled coast-to-coast this year covering the industry — here’s our end-of-year review of the best stories of the year. We’ll never take it for granted: the feeling we get when we walk into a major golf event’s media center ...

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2012 U.S. rounds figures show recovery

May 25, 2012 By
Based on data released last week by the National Golf Foundation (NGF), things are looking up for U.S. golf in 2012, and not just because of the mild weather across the country. Whereas 2011 saw a 2.5 percent decline in ...

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