Dear Industry Colleague,

There was fantastic golf over the weekend with a long overdue second win at Trump International in Aberdeen for Scott Jamieson. Also, on the other side of the pond, the multi-millionaires are really getting their knickers in a twist over positioning for the final of the FedEx Championship which starts on Thursday. Scottie Scheffler has foot and mouth (and hands) and Rory is back in form. Our congratulations go to the winner of the BMW Championship this week to the somewhat graceless Wyndham Clark.

It will all end up being very exciting if it’s the money that turns you on. Elsewhere, at Chart Hills, my home club in the UK, it will be a delight to see Lee Westwood competing on the Staysure Seniors Tour for the first time. It seems that the LIV Golf venture is in its death throes and there’s a good chance we will see many returning golfers on the DP World Tour and elsewhere next year. Fascinating twists of fortune have seemed to increase the wealth of the top golfers and confuse the golfing public. LIV Golf has definitely opened up the sport to more people and its highly popular events, especially in Australia where they have record crowds – something that both DP World Golf and the PGA Tour could use more of. I hope they’ve been watching and learning. If you pay rockstar wages, you’ve got to provide a bit of a show for the punters!

Another even more important development being covered by us in the article below. GolfPod at Basildon is a standalone 10-bay golf range in just 40 m². It is set inside the Basildon Sporting Park and is part of a wider leisure offering. This is an amazing opportunity for golf to reach out to thousands more people and we wish all of those involved in GolfPod and those that golf at the new centre all the very best for the future.

Best wishes,

Colin Jenkins
(07768) 887033