David Hyland

Too much time thinking golf business, not enough playing it. Writing from Ireland.

What does Wu-Tang Clan have to do with golf?

Oct 30, 2026

Exclusive: Skins Golf founder Don Magrane on brand focus, repeat customers and cultural collabs

Five tonnes, £500,000 and a golf business

Oct 23, 2026

Exclusive: Inside Dryvebox's big bet on mobile golf

We featured 44 golf start-ups. Here’s what we noticed

Oct 16, 2026

Plus: $65.8bn in sports media rights, AI tee-time booking and Austin's fight to save public golf

What Rahm's exit means for LIV 2.0

Oct 9, 2026

Plus: LPGA heads to Kapalua, women's sport gets its first $100m-revenue team and Five Iron finds another way to grow

What private aviation found in golf

Oct 2, 2026

Plus: TGL keeps ESPN, Golf Saudi changes course and the economics of a full tee sheet

Who should golf be celebrating?

Sep 25, 2026

Exclusive: The inaugural Business in Golf 100 launches today

What happens when a golf brand makes it into retail?

Sep 18, 2026

Plus: The PGA Tour eligibility rules, WTA's 'Super Bowl' ambition, and Fever's $5.2bn bet on live experiences

Who should get inside the ropes? What tennis can teach golf about creators

Sep 11, 2026

Plus: LIV’s bankruptcy, TMRW’s $1bn valuation and the Hyrox opportunity

Golf won the awareness battle for women, retention is the next test

Sep 4, 2026

Plus: LIV filing for bankruptcy, WTGL media agreement, and college golf gets NIL investment

Hally Leadbetter wanted a healthy snack for golf. It didn't exist, so she made one.

Aug 28, 2026

Exclusive: Interview with Hally on building new golf snack brand BUNCHIES

Why the T-Mobile and USGA partnership is a masterclass in modern sponsorship

Aug 21, 2026

Exclusive: T-Mobile's Mike Gendreau on turning a golf sponsorship into critical infrastructure

How golf's most overlooked customer became a founding advantage

Aug 14, 2026

Exclusive: Interview with Buena Gente founder Jonathan Madera on building golf's first Latino lifestyle brand

Why Headlight's $22m RepSpark bet isn't really about the money

Aug 7, 2026

Plus: The debt behind LIV's new lifeline, Topgolf's 10 million golfer pledge, and Callaway's tariff turnaround

Why the PGA of America bet on golf retail's missing infrastructure

Jul 31, 2026

Exclusive: Meghann Butcher, founder of RepSpark, on the platform's strategic alignment with PGA

What Gleezy Dogs can teach you about entering a market

Jul 24, 2026

Plus: Asian Tour realigns with the PGA and DP World Tours, Stripe becomes a Ryder Cup Worldwide Partner and Blitzer adds MyGolfSpy to his golf portfolio

When meaning becomes a competitive strategy

Jul 17, 2026

Plus: The R&A holds the line on prize money, a first Open outside the UK, and Golf Channel's creator bet

How golfers buy now, from first scroll to checkout

Jul 10, 2026

Plus: LIV Golf preps for layoffs, Versant buys Full Swing for $530M, and Noteefy consolidates golf's operator stack

The commercial strategy behind the PGA Tour's restructure

Jul 3, 2026

Plus: ESPN's FedExCup deal, Sony repositions on Champions, and the lesson in Wimbledon's £64m purse

Why Old Tom Capital is backing golf's off-course economy

Jun 26, 2026

Exclusive: Co-founder Evan Roosevelt on simulator growth, distribution alpha and a 50-million-person bet

Who owns the audience? The question reshaping sports sponsorship

Jun 19, 2026

Plus: The USGA delays the rollback to 2030, Escalante's Irish acquisition, and Rocket exits the Tour

What every golf brand can learn from Manors

Jun 12, 2026

Exclusive: Co-founder Luke Davies on reinvention, building a creative engine and what comes next

Golf's hidden management academy

Jun 5, 2026

Plus: LPL makes golf its first sports partnership, Sentry moves its title, and the Bernabéu gets a new game

They built the audience. Now someone has to build the business.

May 29, 2026

Exclusive: Steve Strand on why YouTube golf needs broadcast economics and how Source Golf is building them

Inside LIV Golf's fight for survival

May 22, 2026

Plus: The asterisk on golf's ratings spike, Palantir's warning to course tech, and TaylorMade goes biennial

Inside the caddie economy

May 15, 2026

Plus: Korea's biggest golf operator hits the market, the PGA Tour opens up its content rules, and GolfPass Travel goes live