You might want to stay out of the golf business
Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Apparel • Golf Balls • Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment • Golf Media
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Apparel • Golf Balls • Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment • Golf Media
The golf business is tough. Sales are flat. Manufacturing costs are high. Advertising is expensive (except on golf blogs). Yet some people who have millions to burn still try to make it in the golf industry, only to be sent home with their prototype between their legs.
Here’s a good read from Business Week discussing some of those people.
What is the BEST FREE fantasy golf league?
Last year I ran my first fantasy golf season for The Golf Space and Hooked On Golf Blog. I ran it through Yahoo sports. The yahoo league was ok, except it stupidly let you start players who weren’t playing. So the weeks where I forgot or didn’t have time to start players, I had DNP players playing.
I had weekly prizes from sponsors Golf Dust and Swing Juice. I gave a way a Nintendo DS with the game True Swing Golf for 1st place of each half of the season and awarded a TaylorMade r7 425 driver for the winner of the whole year!
I’m going to do a fantasy league again and I’d like to make next year’s even better. I’m wondering what your suggestions are.
WHAT IS THE BEST FREE FANTASY GOLF LEAGUE? Comment your opinions in!
175 new photos, new course reviews on the way.
I just added 175 new photos to the HOG photo gallery. They’re pictures of three courses from St. George in Southern Utah.
#9 Tee: Sky Mountain Golf Course
I’m down here in Southern Utah and Mesquite Nevada for 3 days doing course reviews and getting out of the terribly cold and polluted weather in Salt Lake. There’s this weather condition in Salt Lake called an “inversion,” where a high pressure system seals all the pollution in the valley. My eyes start to sting like I’ve been on a no-sleep binge in Vegas for 4 days.
#15 Green: The Ledges Golf Course
I’ve added photos from Dixie Red Hills Golf Course, The Ledges Golf Course and Sky Mountain Golf Course. I’ll be writing up reviews of The Ledges and Sky Mountain soon. For now enjoy the photos.
Hooked On Golf Blog’s Two Year Anniversary… Belated
I’ve been so busy fighting hackers and people ripping off my content that I completely missed Hooked On Golf Blog’s 2nd birthday or “blogday.” HOG’s 2nd blogday was December 5th, and I wouldn’t have even remembered that if I hadn’t made the last post.
So a 2nd year of golf blogging is in the books…
Year two nuggets:
- In year two I made 562 posts.
- I greatly improved my golf equipment reviews and especially my golf course reviews.
- I met and golfed with fellow golf bloggers like Jay Flemma and Luke Swilor.
- I made dozens of new contacts with golf courses and golf equipment companies.
- I played the coolest course I’ve ever seen.
- I’ve made some BIG connections which I’m “working” now…
- I posted over 1500 photos to the golf photo gallery, bringing it to over 2600!
- I launched The Golf Space, the web’s original and best golf networking site.
- Entertained being “bought out” or “acquired” but declined several deals.
- Climbed up the search engine ladder to become top in many golf categories.
Time capsule of current stats:
- 1050 total posts
- 1152 comments (some lost switching from blogger)
- Photo gallery images viewed 197,447 times
- 2604 golf photos in the gallery
- 1211 pictures of golf courses. I intend to make this portion HUGE.
Year three
Back on HOG’s one year birthday post I wrote down some goals or hopes for the upcoming year of golf blogging. Many came true, except the one where a big company like Titleist or Ping buys me out and pays me a million bucks.
My goals for year three are very similar to year two. I have no doubt I’ll be golf blogging a year from now. I enjoy it too much to stop any time soon. I fully intened to continue building this golf site and my “golf web empire” in general. I’m really looking forward to doing many more golf course reviews and continuing to build up large libraries with photos of great golf courses. I greatly look forward to meeting and golfing with more cool people, and building up relationships with companies in the golf industry.
To all my golf blog friends I thank you for your support.
Happy Blogday Illogical Golf Blog
The Illogical Golf Blog marked it’s one year birthday today. Holy cow.. I need to figure out when my TWO year blogday is. It may have already passed.
Anyway, here’s a toast to someone sticking with golf blogging for a year. It’s a labor of love, trust me. I won’t be retiring any time soon off the huge amount of revenue HOG generates… 🙂
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