2013 PGA Merchandise Show Report – Part 1 GOLF: A Real Recovery or a Weather-Inspired Dead Cat Bounce?

For years now we have witnessed a decline in play-rates, courses closing, grow the game efforts and innumerable sources of advice about how to get the game of golf out of its malaise. We have offered more than our fair share of advice ourselves. In fact we offered enough to be considered a potential candidate for CEO of the PGA of America. We take our hats off to the selection committee in choosing Pete Bevacqua. They got it right by going outside the organization and landing on an individual who has substantial operating experience in the business of golf.   Our take on the job was that the PGA of America had operated in the manner of a cr... More