Toll Brothers stays on the leading edge of wireless technology for 11 golf properties.
Disaster Recovery: Picking Up the Pieces
Two clubs share their stories of disaster recovery.
Website Strategies For Clubs and Resorts
In today’s hyper-connected online society, what does it take to get a property’s website noticed?
Solid Connections
In today’s fully wired world, more clubs have recognized the need to provide ways for members to stay connected for business and personal reasons, even when they’re using the club to “get away.” It’s no longer a matter of if clubs should provide connectivity from within their facilities, but how and to what extent, so…
Well-Served
The Club at Admiral’s Cove, Jupiter, Fla., reports that it has “dramatically reduced paper consumption, increased departmental efficiencies and encouraged interdepartmental communication” through a Digital Document Management system that saves “time, money, paper, energy…and your sanity.” As the graphic below shows, the Admiral’s Cove system uses central servers to exchange and share these documents generated,…
Efficient Worksite
The Country Club of Virginia (CCV) created a special golf staff website to improve distribution of schedules and communication within the department. The site, which requires password login, allows staff members to access schedules on a 24/7 basis from any PC or Internet-enabled device. The site has made it easier for employees to communicate with…
Still Growing Up At the Five-Year Mark
With having a base irrigation system to go off of, minor upgrades and some component changes have allowed the club not to replace the system in its entirety.
All Systems Go
Oakmont Country Club offers proof that with equal parts planning and precision, you can successfully integrate your systems-and the operations they run.
Taking F&B High-Tech
Software systems in the right hands can bring new creativity and efficiencies to key tasks such as menu pricing, food costing, and inventory control.
Zoëtry Wellness & Spa Resorts Catches the Potential of Social Networks
With the increase popularity of social networking, the tool can be used for communication to the customers and to the company itself by getting the feedback it has been maybe lacking.
When it comes to Social Networks, What’s In, What’s Out and What’s Next?
By finding the best ways to use the latest communications platforms, clubs and resorts are exploring new and unique ways of doing business.
Having a Blast
Using an integrated system to provide more timely and targeted messages has helped Forest Hills CC ride out the economic storm.
Safe and Sound
Solar-powered call boxes like those used successfully on remote California highways now provide reliable emergency access throughout the Congressional property. As one of the country’s largest and most distinguished private clubs, Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. has been the site of many major golf tournaments (and will be again with the 2011 U.S. Open).…
Staying Connected
Clubs have always been tangled up in the ongoing conflict between the desire to make their properties a sanctuary from the noise and activity of business life, and the need of many members to be able to monitor and respond to work-related issues. And the challenge of keeping the two purposes separate has only intensified…
The Card That Gives Back
THE GOAL:Improve members’ response to birthday greetings from The Country Club of Salisbury that include vouchers for a discount.THE PLAN: Switch to electronic greeting cards that are free and easier to send, more timely and environmentally friendly, and more likely to be noticed. THE PAYOFF: Better recognition and an unanticipated benefit—strong return links to the…