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ClubstoHire sells out at Edinburgh ahead of Open Championship
high-end Callaway, TaylorMade and Wilson Staff hire sets available from its service at Edinburgh airport. Helped by golfers from around
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the globe flying into the Scottish capital to take in the 144th Open Championship at nearby St Andrews, the award-winning rental firm saw an unprecedented number of bookings over the July period. The Dublin-based enterprise has also witnessed a record year for golfers hiring clubs at Edinburgh for a weekly fee between €35 and €60, with bookings up 70% on the same period in 2014. “The Open Championship has certainly attracted more people to our Edinburgh service this week, however it’s fair to say we’ve seen significant growth over the whole of this year – particularly from American and Continental European golfers,” said ClubstoHire CEO Tony Judge. “We’re planning to add even more hire sets for the Edinburgh region soon and we’re also considering bringing the service to other popular Scottish
lubstoHire.com, Europe’s largest golf club rental operator, sold out of its
golfing destinations in the near future.” Recently, ClubstoHire introduced its service to three locations in the
United States. Sets of the latest TaylorMade and Callaway golf clubs are now on offer to golfers flying into Orlando, Florida; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Las Vegas, Nevada from €80 per week. “With ClubstoHire now having greater exposure at several busy
American destinations, we hope to see continued growth at locations like Edinburgh during the next 12 months,” added Judge. ClubstoHire also began operations in Africa (Cape Town & Marrakesh)
and Asia (Bangkok & Pattaya, Thailand) during the last year, as increasing numbers of people travel to long haul destinations to play golf. By the end of this year, the innovative company will have supplied over 75,000 sets of golf clubs from its 25 locations. Locations currently being served by
ClubstoHire.com are: Spain –
Alicante, Costa Dorada, Girona, Grand Canaria, Malaga, Murcia, Palma (Majorca) & Tenerife; Portugal – Faro & Lisbon; Cyprus – Paphos; Morocco – Marrakesh; Turkey – Belek; South Africa – Cape Town; Thailand – Bangkok, Pattaya & Phuket; UK & Ireland – Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh & Isle of Man.
www.clubstohire.com Cobra Golf announces The Return of the King
design that allowed the brand’s R&D team to strategically position the Centre of Gravity (CG) and make Cobra Golf’s key internal speed and stability technologies visible for the first time. “The King Cobra franchise is synonymous with the brands’ heritage. Now,
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the new King LTD Driver is the next generation of product under the King Cobra name, building upon the legacy created by Cobra Founder, Tom
obra Golf has announced the return of King to the product line with the launch of the new King LTD Driver. Fuelled by research in space, the King LTD features a SpacePort
Crow, in 1990,” said Tom Olsavsky, VP Research & Development Cobra Golf. “We knew that if we were going to reintroduce the KING Cobra it had to be something much more advanced and special, incorporating innovative technologies that would only surpass its’ legacy. And we are confident we did that with the King LTD driver; it is truly game- changing for golfers and fit for a King.”
GLF.Locker will ‘Change The Business of Golf Coaching’ G
LF.Locker, the comprehensive new suite of web and mobile tools for
golf coaches and their students, has been launched in the UK and USA, with a promise to change the business of golf coaching. A free GLF.Locker App has also been launched in the App store, with an
Android version set for later in the year. GLF. (Giant Leaps Forward) have created the web-based GLF.Locker
soſtware platform to boost the business prospects of anyone who teaches golfers for a living. Research and development was undertaken in the USA and UK
markets simultaneously aſter extensive trials with golf coaches and academies on both sides of the Atlantic. The online platform provides management tools which enable golf
teaching professionals to operate more efficiently than ever before, leading to significantly increased customer retention levels. GLF.Locker helps golf professionals to generate more revenue from
individual pupils and group bookings, and enables golf academy managers to increase income from either a single academy, or a group of golf academies where multiple sites are being managed. By making new and existing student bookings easier to manage,
marketing promotions more efficient and powerful, and key customer trends more easy to identify, GLF.Locker helps revenue-boosting activities as well as day-to-day management tasks.
8 SGBGOLF As a golf coach, GLF.Locker supplies your best-ever tools to manage and
provide feedback on your students’ progress, leading to high levels of customer satisfaction. You can track a wide variety of data, from financial records to student performance at group or individual level, and you can customise the look and feel to suit your own brand image. GLF.Locker simplifies the scheduling of individual and group lessons,
and you can also create limitless new products, add discounts and take payments within the GLF.Locker platform. If you manage a golf academy or group of academies, GLF.Locker saves
you valuable time. Golf academy managers can create live, up-to-date reports on all academy activity, and can send instant messages to staff, individual students, group members, or to all registered users. The free, features-packed GLF.Locker App provides a pocket-friendly
version of the GLF.Locker online platform, for golfers and individual golf coaches. Both can use the App on their mobile phone for speedy access to the platform’s most vital and commonly used features. Golf coaches will find the GLF.Locker App especially useful for tracking
students’ progress and managing their bookings while mobile. Golfers can use it to book their next golf lesson in less than a minute, speeding up and simplifying the process. Among other useful attributes the App also enables golfers to track all key aspects of their personal performance, including live comments and video tips from their golf coach. GLF.Locker offers free registration for pupils, with Coach, Academy and
Multi-Academy access starting at just £30 per month.
www.glflocker.com
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