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GOLF INDUSTRY :
Golf industry trends look very favorable and there is a growing demand for luxurious golf courses and highly qualified professionals in this industry.
There are 32 ooo Golf courses in the world (50%in the US) that cover an area more than half the size of Belgium ,there are over 80 million golf players worldwide 80% are men and 20% are women, the number of players should reached 100 million in 2010!
From 2000 to 2006 the number of federated players in European countries has grown considerably from 36% in Germany to 53% in Holland .
Asia, China and South Korea are seeing the greatest growth, China needs to develop 2000 Golf courses in the coming years.
India’s number of Golf courses is growing by 25 % per year, Dubai before the recent cash crisis was also developing many golf courses with the help of Greg Norman and Ernie Els.
The world market for Golf clubs only reaches $ 1.5 billion per year
Luxurious Golf Resorts:
One of them is The Fancourt Hote & Country estate located in South Africa’s Golf mountain, close to the garden route and to the sea cliffs.
Two of the golf courses were designed by the famous Gary Player,
The owner of Fancourt is Mr Hasso Plattner the founder of the German software company SAP.
The 334 rooms of the Country Estate (built in 1847) offer elegance and luxury , all the rooms offer a stunning view of Fancourt’s golf courses.
TIGER WOOD, from the web site :
http://trueslant.com/jonpessah/2009/12/23/tigers-tail-just-keeps-on-growing/
Pole dancing NFL wives? Salacious pictures of your team’s star third baseman? Believe it. Yes, the ripple effect of the Tiger story just keeps rolling on.
Today we add two more items to the list of what Tiger has wrought. Both should have pro athletes dreading what comes next. The rest of us will just roll our eyes.
The first: a start-up company called “Off the Market,” whose goal is to strengthen the relationship between pro athletes and their wives and girlfriends. Among the early ideas: teaching the wives of athletes how to pole dance and giving their husbands adult toys to use while they’re on the road. No, we’re not making this up.
The company is the idea of Tia Robbins, the wife of New York Giants defensive tackle Fred Robbins, Jerika Johnstone, wife of former NFL player Lance Johnstone, and Jasmine Silva, girlfriend of St. Louis Rams safety James Butler, reports Darren Rovell of CNBC. Robbins says she and her partners came up with the idea before the Woods scandal broke, but thinks the non-stop Tiger stories will be a wake up call for athletes and their wives.
“We want to help athletes sustain a positive and sexy relationship with their mates,” says Robbins. And if that means teaching wives how to pole dance to keep their husbands out of strip clubs, then so be it. She’ll even find you someone to install a pole in your home. “We’d like to offer a private lesson for strip pole dancing one day or even offer to have a strip pole built in a home.”
Robbins says she is drawing on her own experience.
“My husband told me that since he had that ring on his finger, women have been flocking to him more,” Robbins said. “We have to be open with each other and we think we can help with these unique relationships.”
With all due respect to Robbins, her two partners, and all the other wives of professional athletes, I’m just not sure what sort of tips they can share that will prevent the sort of behavior that has been going on since, well, since forever.
But here’s something that may slow down a few athletes: gossip king TMZ is planning an all-sports spinoff early next year, reports the New York Times. According to comScore, an online research firm, traffic for the week ending Dec. 6—prime time for Tiger coverage—increased by almost two million unique visitors. That’s enough to change your business plan.
Will it change the habits of athletes on the road?
We are soon to find out.
And athletes aren’t the only group affected by TMZ’s decision. Sports writers who regularly cover beats have long been aware of what married athletes do when their wives are back home minding the kids. Every writer makes up his or her mind about how to deal with this information, and the vast majority pretty much ignores it for a variety of reasons. Athletes are not elected officials, they are entertainers, the thinking goes, and what they do on the road has rarely, if ever, been part of the mainstream coverage.
But can the writers stay on the sidelines if TMZ is making headlines? Will news organizations like the New York Times run a TMZ story, then pick up the chase? Will ESPN, which has partnerships with virtually every professional sport, alter its coverage?
Here’s what former ESPN ombudswoman Lee Anne Schreiber told the New York Times today.
“If another outlet caters to the celebrity approach, ESPN cedes that territory and loses eyeballs,” she said. “But if they directly compete, they risk altering their own mission as a sports media entity. They risk alienating fans that resent that kind of approach to sports coverage and, perhaps, more importantly, they risk alienating athletes and the kind of access that they currently enjoy.”
In other words, damned if you do, damned if you don’t. TMZ pays for many of its scoops. Money talks, as we’ve seen in TMZ’s coverage of movies starlet and rock stars. There are already a few sites, most prominently Deadspin, who tread in this field. Though none have the resources of TMZ, a unit of Time Warner, chances are we could be witnesses to an internet-style tabloid war.
“Does this mean that every single person on the planet with a raunchy photo of athletes drinking or sliming over women will now run over to TMZ first because they’ll offer some payment for these types of photos? Yikes,” Deadspin editor A.J. Daulerio wrote today. “That would suck. But remember—we pay, too. Probably on a less frequent basis than they do, but should the right thing come along that I feel Deadspin could benefit from, I’ll gladly pay for it. It’s only happened once before, but if I have to start being more aggressive about using this burlap sack of scuzz money I have sitting on my desk, then so be it.”
When I reached Daulerio and asked him to elaborate, he told me:
“I doubt I’d pay for 95% of the things they do. My ideal get would be something that’s very, very unique—like Dock Ellis’ no-hitter on acid or something. But, as I said, we do pay for things. I don’t like to and I don’t like making it a part of our daily editorial mission, but I think it was worth putting out there just so we could let people know that [paying for news] is an option with us as well.
“I mean, TMZ is a threat to everyone—sports or not. We’ve seen twice now how they can just control a story and beat it into submission, i.e. Michael Jackson and Tiger. I think everyone has to adjust to them. People can turn their noses up at them for how they do things, but you have to admit that they’ve been remarkable at making online news a viable and profitable marketplace.”
The guess here: despite the best efforts of Robbins and her friends, we’ll see more salacious stories coming out of the sports world in the year to come.
Thank you, Tiger Woods.
FRANCAIS
Le business du Golf – Est ce que la queue du Tigre va continuer à grandir
Le Business du Golf :
Le business du Golf semble ne pas être touché par la crise, il semble que la demande pour des Hôtels Golf de luxe soit en progression. D’autre part Ce secteur recrute toujours, et des professionnels dans tout les domaines relatifs au Golf sont aujourd’hui recherchés .
Il y a 32 000 parcours de Golf dans le monde (50% aux USA) ceux ci couvrent une surface proche de la moitié de la surface de la Belgique ,Il y a environ 80 millions de joueurs de golf dans le monde 80% sont des hommes et 20% sont des femmes, , le nombre de joueurs devrait atteindre 100 million en 2010 !
De 2000 a 2006 le nombre de joueurs licenciés en Europe a progressé considérablement, dans la plupart des pays, +36% en Allemagne + 53% en Hollande.
L’Asie, La Chine et la Corée du Sud, ont vu leurs nombres de joueurs progresses fortement.
Enfin La Chine doit construire 2000 parcours de Golf dans les prochaines années.
Le nombre de parcours de Golf progresse en moyenne de 25% chaque année en Inde, A Dubaï avant la crise Financière de nombreux parcours dessinés Greg Norman et Ernie Els étaient en cours de réalisation
Le montant des ventes des seuls Clubs ( drives et putters) atteint chaque année $ 1.5 milliard.
Hotel Golf de Luxe :
Un de ceux que nous recommandons est le : “The Fancourt Hotel & Country estate “ situé dans la montagne Sud Africaine, proche de la « garden route « et des falaises.
Deux des parcours furent dessinés par le fameux Gary Player,
Le propriétaire du Fancourt est Hasso Plattner le créateur Allemand de la société de logiciel SAP.
Les 334 chambres du Fancourt construit en 1847 sont faites d’élégance et de luxe, enfin toutes les chambres offrent une vue sur les parcours
TIGER WOOD, par notre ami Jon Pessah de TruesSlant :
http://trueslant.com/jonpessah/2009/12/23/tigers-tail-just-keeps-on-growing/
Les épouses des joueurs de Football Américains se mettent au “pole dancing” ? Bientôt des photos “solaces” de joueurs sur les sites people? Croyez moi, . le scandale Tiger Woods commence à faire des vagues.
Aujourd’hui nous allons vous parler de deux dommages collatéraux de l’effet Tiger Wood . Les deux vont certainement effrayer le monde des athletes professionnels Nous cela ne cesse de nous surprendre
Première conséquence une société appelée : “Off the Market,” vient d’être crée son but renforcer les relations entre les athlètes et leurs épouses ou petites amies , une des activités proposees par cette société , est l’enseignement du « pole dancing » aux épouses et petites amies, la deuxième idée proposée par cette société , est d’offrir aux Athlètes des « sex toys » afin qu’ils les utilisent lorsqu’ils sont en compétitions à l’extérieur. Non nous n’inventons rien,
Cette société a été crée sur une idée de Tia Robbins, l’épouse du défenseur du “ New York Giants” Fred Robbins, de Jerika Johnstone, épouse du NFL player Lance Johnstone, et de Jasmine Silva, petite amie du St. Louis Rams James Butler, reports Darren Rovell of CNBC. Ces dames nous expliquent qu’elles ont eu cette idée avant le scandale Tiger Woods , elles pensent que ce scandale va les aider à développer leur business .
Interrogées ces dames nous expliquent : Nous voulons que les Athlètes maintiennent des relations saines avec leurs épouses ou petites amies. Et si pour cela nous devons enseigner à leurs chéries le « pole dancing » afin que cela tienne leurs hommes hors des clubs de striptease, nous prenons tout en charge dont l’installation du « pole » dans leurs maison.ainsi les leçons de strip, et la distribution de Sex Toys.
D’après leurs expérience, dès qu’un homme porte une alliance, cela attire les autres femmes, Le seul moyen de « concourir » fans ce monde de compétition, est donc d’offrir ce qu’attendent ces chers athlètes !
Avec tout le respect que nous leur devons, nous ne pensons pas que ce genre de conseils soient valables à long terme .
Deuxième conséquence qui va peut être ralentir l’ardeur de nos chers athlètes, d’après leNew York Times le très célèbre site people TMZ planifie de s’intéresser aux sportifs début 2010, Et cela fait suite à l’étude de www.comScore.com un site de recherché en ligne, en effet le trafic internet de la semaine se terminant de 6 Décembre, semaine « prime time « de l’affaire « Tiger Wood » a augmenté de deux millions de visiteurs uniques . Suffisant pour changer le business plan de TMZ.
Cela changera t il le comportement des athlètes lors de leurs tournées ?
Merci Tiger Woods !