Dick’s Sporting Goods Open: Mark O’Meara, the 1998 Masters and Open Championship winner, has commits to the Champions Tour event, Aug. 17-19 at the En-Joie Golf Course in Endicott, N.Y. … eGolf Professional Tour: Announces Mountain Khakis as an official tour partner for the 2012 season.
Cobra Puma Golf Brings A New Level Of Luxury And Performance To The Golf Industry In Collaboration With Ferrari SpA
Cobra Puma Golf: Introduces the Ferrari Golf Collection that will feature high-end equipment, apparel, footwear and accessories. This long-term partnership between Cobra Puma Golf and Ferrari SpA will create a new type of product that merges both art and science.
Nation’s Largest Golf Retailer Moves Northville Store To Huge Experiential Store In Novi
Golfsmith: Grand opening for its new Novi, Mich., location is scheduled for June 1-3 and will include $10,000 in prizes and giveaways.
CertiFresh Cigar Doubles First Quarter Sales, Adds More Staff
CertiFresh Cigar: Reports a near doubling of first quarter sales versus the same period 2011. The company also hires sales representative Brad Beck to handle Tennessee.
Golf Gods Smile On 80th Anniversary Celebration At Alister MacKenzie’s Sharp Park Golf Course
Sharp Park Golf Course (Pacifica, Calif.): Celebrated its 80th anniversary on May 19 with more than 300 golfers and community leaders in attendance. Sharp Park is a Dr. Alister MacKenzie design.
Crystal Springs Resort’s ‘Fantasy’ Package Features Heavenly Getaway For Golfing Duo
Crystal Springs Resort (Hamburg, N.J.): Announces its Fantasy Golf Package, which includes private instruction at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy and an eight-course dinner with specially paired wines.
FitGolf Performance Centers In Galesburg, IL, The Golf Fitness Experts Are Preparing Their 2012 Stretch Tent Calendar.
FitGolf Performance Centers: Announces that its Galesburg, Ill., franchise will offer stretch tent services this season.
GolfStyles’ Spring “Joining The Club” Issue Wins Best Publication Award From ING
GolfStyles: Won the Best Publication in Conference award at the International Network of Golf’s Spring Conference last week.
Wintergreen Resort In Virginia Joins Clickitgolf.com
Clickit Ventures: Clickitgolf.com chosen by Wintergreen Resort in Wintergreen, Va., to begin selling golf rounds online.
Paramount Country Club Offers National Membership
Paramount Country Club (New City, N.Y.): Begins offering a national membership for $6,000 to select candidates. Founded in 1920, Paramount was originally designed by architect A.W. Tillinghast.
Royal Isabela Wins Robb Report’s 2012 “Best Of The Best”
Golf Links at Royal Isabela (Isabela, Puerto Rico): Named to Robb Report’s 2012 Best of the Best listing, which is published in the June issue.
The Wallace Family Finds Family Unity And Hope For A Brighter Future At Golf Academy Of America
Golf Academy of America: Reports on George Wallace and his two sons, Jonathan and Christopher, who attend the Myrtle Beach, S.C., campus. The sons have been en discharged from military service due to injuries received in Iraq, while George Wallace lost his job last year at a nuclear power plant near Aiken, S.C., after 30 years of employment.
Kentwool Staff Player Bubba Watson To Premiere Limited-Edition Charity Sock At 2012 U.S. Open Championship
Kentwool: Announces a limited-edition Tour Profile sock in red, white and blue – to be worn by Bubba Watson during the U.S. Open – is now available. Sales benefit Pendleton Place, a Greenville, S.C.-based children’s charity as part of the Bubba & Friends Drive to a Million initiative.
GolfLogix Congratulates Crowne Plaza Invitational Winner Zach Johnson
GolfLogix: Tour staffer Zach Johnson won the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. Johnson regularly uses the GolfLogix GPS app.
Pebble Beach Elite Player Camps Attracting Top International Players
Tour Academy: Reports that its Pebble Beach Elite Player Golf Camps, to be held later this month, has attracted attendees from more than 15 states and five countries. “We are pleased to see the demand for our Pebble Beach Elite Player Camps exceed initial expectations,” said Marc Haddad, senior vice president of business development, Tour Academy, of the camps that are for junior golfers 12 to 17 years of age.
Tom Watson: Lessons Of A Lifetime Instructional DVD Sales Surpass 55,000 Copies
Tom Watson: Reports that sales of its “Tom Watson: Lessons of a Lifetime” instructional DVD have surpassed 55,000 copies.
Golf Channel New Media Group Announces Several Promotions
Golf Channel: Announces promotions within its new media sales department, including Mike Hendrix, Stacey Oleck and Jonathan Vassil to the positions of senior director of sales.
Eidolon Appoints Brittain Wynyard & Co. Ltd. As New Zealand Distributer; First International Distributer
Eidolon Brands: Appoints Brittain Wynyard & Co. Ltd. as its first international distributer, representing Scor and its Scor 4161 line of scoring clubs across New Zealand.
ING Conference Best Award Winners: Avid Golf’s Swedge Training Aid And Golfstyles Magazine
International Network of Golf: Announces that Avid Golf and Golfstyles Magazine won the respective Products and Publications categories in the ING Conference Best awards at last week’s annual spring conference.
Harbour Town Golf Links Again Honored On Celebrated Living’s “Platinum List”
Sea Pines Resort (Hilton Head, S.C.): Harbour Town Golf Links ranked No. 4 on the Platinum List for Celebrated Living, an American Airlines in-flight publication.
