Hello golf stakeholders:
It’s been an “interesting” start to the season in the northern climes and we’ve been helping clients quantify and understand how much of performance is due to weather variance vs. waning-COVID consumer effects. In this issue, we’re taking a break from talking about COVID’s impact on golfers and rounds with Stuart L. revisiting his observations and insights regarding dynamic pricing and yield management approaches across clients who have shared their results with us. The headline is that all approaches are producing positive results but the dynamics (bad pun) are shifting.
Jim K. takes a look at the ongoing debate and progress(?) we’ve seen against the narrative of Topgolf being accretive to industry growth vs. dilutive to the average/local course operator. This month’s By-the-Numbers section tracks the critical Utilization Rate figure for March and Year-to-Date as the best barometer of industry health as odd weather collides with waning-COVID rounds trends. We’ve already compiled the April rounds “preview” enabled by our Golf Market Research Center (GMRC) subscribers and it continues to be encouraging vs. the abysmal April weather nationally. If you want to know those numbers on a regular basis, you can either participate in GMRC (course operators) or sign up for a Publications Membership (everyone else). On to this month’s mashup of education and entertainment…
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