“The Hangout” is now open for business at its permanent location on the Sacramento, Calif. facility’s driving range, offering a completely different menu than the property’s MacKenzie’s Sports Bar and Grille. The food truck’s menu features made-to-order items including burgers, sandwiches and shareables. Golfers and foodies in the Sacramento, Calif. area can now find a…

The nearly 100-year-old William Land Golf Course was threatened with closing when The First Tee of Sacramento announced it was ending its lease, but the city has reached an agreement with Morton Golf, which operates three other city courses, to take over its operation. Details of the agreement will be heard by City Council on…

City officials have been told by First Tee that it wants to terminate its lease to operate the nearly century-old nine-hole course, which is expected to lose another $150,000 this year to continue a five-year trend of heavy losses.

The Ione, Calif. property features a Brad Benz-designed golf course situated on the historic Preston Farmlands and overlooked by Preston Castle, built a century before the course in 1894 and now a California State Historical Landmark. Castle Oaks was named “Best Public Golf Course in Northern California” when it opened in 1994.

When the 2021 tournament returns to the Nebraska club, which also hosted it in 2013, it will tie the record for fastest return of a Senior Open. The 2022 tournament will be a record third for Saucon Valley CC and will coincide with the Bethlehem, Pa. club’s 100th anniversary.   The United States Golf Association…

A survey by The Sacramento Bee found that of 34 18-hole courses in the area, 15 were not planning to “punch” their greens this spring, and several were also not planning to do so in the fall. The change is often being driven as much by financial reasons as by weather conditions.

Heavy rains are keeping some golf courses in Sacramento and Stockton closed with flooded fairways and muddy conditions. Surrounding golf courses also face the threat of additional flooding from the damaged Lake Oroville dam, located 70 miles from Sacramento, that has caused the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people. More storms are expected later this week.

The new 65,000-sq. ft. venue in Roseville, Calif., part of the metropolitan area of the state capital city of Sacramento, is the company’s 29th location worldwide.

The city saw a decline in FootGolf rounds in 2015, and one course recently closed at Cherry Island Golf Course in Elverta. Operator Empire Golf said the FootGolf course wasn’t worth the negativity from traditional golfers and didn’t achieve the crossover it hoped for, while Haggin Oaks Head Pro Mike Woods speculated that the decline in rounds is due to increased competition rather than a lack of participation.

The Sacramento, Calif., property’s President and General Manager fought to host the 2015 event, preparing with a $13 million course renovation 10 years ago and convincing officials that the club and local economy were financially viable.

The property will be the only Certified FootGolf Course in the state of Arizona. In a Reuters report about the soccer-golf hybrid, the President of the American FootGolf League said, “FootGolf is to the golf industry what snowboarding was to the ski industry.”

Idle Hour Club’s Ray Cutright (Golf Professional of the Year) and Merion Golf Club’s Scott Nye (Merchandiser of the Year, Private Facilities) will be among those honored in November at the PGA Annual Meeting.

After the minimum hourly wage jumped from $8 to $9 on July 1, operators developed new cost and pricing strategies and adopted other economies and techniques to help maintain acceptable profit margins in a way that wouldn’t risk losing customers.

When the tournament was last held in 2001 on the Donald Ross course at the Peabody, Mass. club, history was made when the entire ticket allotment of 25,000 per day sold out one year in advance—something that has never happened since.