Golf
$18 million ‘next generation’ renovation under way at The Peninsula Club
Oct. 19. Greenville, SC-based Beau Welling Design (BWD) has started an $18 million renovation of the golf course and facilities at The Peninsula Club. The project is expected to be completed in a year. “After a couple of years of planning and preparation, we are excited to break ground on a project that will create […]
On the upswing: Golf worth $4.2 billion to NC
Aug. 31. By Dave Yochum. Gov. Roy Cooper has declared Tuesday, Aug. 31 “North Carolina Golf Day” in honor of golf’s role in the economy, health, environmental stewardship and tourism of North Carolina. The 2022 Presidents Cup and the 2025 PGA Championship to be held at the Quail Hollow Club. On the upswing Del Ratcliffe, […]
Golf is on the upswing with new investments
By Dave Yochum. Millennials aren’t golfing like their parents and grandparents, but they’re a force smart golf course operators are reckoning with. Besides buying homes in golf communities, millennials constitute a market that can only grow in terms of club membership, daily play and equipment. Millennial golfers 6.4 million millennial golfers 26% of all golfers 90 […]
Will golfing get out of the rough in 2015?
By John Rehkop. Local golf course operators are looking to create a new, more sustainable model for daily fee golf in the area after a confluence of factors left them in the rough. Golf clubs such as Birkdale and Skybrook in Huntersville were the crown jewels of daily fee golf when they came online in the […]
