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TIGS Announces 2024 Golf Outing and AGM Dates

TIGS – the Travel Industry Golf Society – has unveiled its outings dates for 2024, promising “a varied and interesting” selection of golf courses featuring a mix of some TIGS hasn’t played before and “some old reliables”.

This year’s dates are as follows (note, this year’s TIGS agm will be held at the last outing on October 23):

Thursday 11 April, 2024: Seapoint Links

Thursday 16 May, 2024: Kilkea Castle (optional overnight)

Friday 14 June, 2024: Captain’s Prize Day – Palmerstown House

Friday 26 July, 2024: Newlands Summer Social

Thursday 29 August: Presidents Prize Day – Luttrellstown Castle

Thursday 23 October: The Castle (and AGM)

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The Revival of the Golf Travel Industry

The Revival of the Golf Travel Industry By Nakita Mason, Content & Community Executive at IGTM Team

Our four panellists tackling this subject were Peter Walton, CEO of IAGTO, Sam Barker the Sales Director of Golf Breaks, Clinton Norris the Director of Sales and Marketing for Troon and lastly our host, Farhad Heydari, the Editor of NetJets Magazine and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of House of Heydari.

As expected, one of the most salient topics discussed was about how their businesses had fared during the last 6 months of upheaval and what the core challenges had been during one of the most tumultuous periods for the leisure travel industry to date.

The onset of the pandemic resulted in a surge of new challenges for the golfing industry, but there were also slivers of hope in parts, such as the uplift in domestic bookings. Alongside the expectation management of clients who had bookings, the upsurge in the domestic market and the ever-changing government restrictions, the need for the golf industry to move quickly and adapt was overwhelming. From the day-to-day safety management and the challenges of working remotely, the first half of the year up until now has demanded agility from this industry like never before.

This swift change and ability to adapt to the circumstances is undoubtedly key to seeing the industry slowly build back up to its original health though it’s not the only facet that’s caused optimism among those in the industry.

As mentioned by IAGTO CEO, Peter Walton, whilst the trade has been unquestionably impacted by the last 6 months of the pandemic, it is in fact perhaps uniquely placed to overcome it and potentially even find avenues from it that otherwise would have not opened up.

Golf has the innate advantage of being a non-contact sport with plenty of room for social distancing, and this, coupled with so many people desperate to find new outlets in a newly constrained world has placed it in a uniquely mobile position to adapt. Furthermore, there have been some notable demographic shifts within golf that are yet again new avenues for revenue and previously untapped markets.

Whilst the IGTM Links Golf Revival panel did not shy away from the significant barriers to a return to normal, there was regardless an overwhelming sense of hope:

“Customers want to get away. We’ve seen that even from day one and throughout this whole period that there is a huge appetite to get away and to travel and to play golf. A huge positive, as we’ve mentioned also, there are more people now playing golf and the golf market that we can all tap into has just increased as well” Sam Barker, Golf Breaks

For the full story and some hot topics pinpointed by our wonderful host Mr. Farhad Heydari, watch our panel talk and find out what the key names in golf see as the future for the industry.

To the conference!

Peter Walton CEO of IGTO

Sam Barker of Golf Breaks Sales Director

Clinton Norris of Troon Director of Sales and Marketing

Farhad Heydari, Founder & Chief Executive Office, House of Heydari

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TIGS is Tops

The Travel Industry Golf Society came out in force for Olwen Mc Kinney’s Captain’s Day. We played Olwen’s home course at St Margaret’s GC in north County Dublin and what a challenge that proved to be! A beautiful parkland course, St Margaret’s is long (3 par fives for the ladies to finish!) and a lot of lovely ponds and lakes were a watery end for some! A few balls were lost, a few expletives uttered (not the ladies, naturellement!) and a few bunkers gouged. Yep, a normal day on the golf course! Seriously, it was a brilliant day out with great golf, great company and great weather.

Winners on the day:

• 1st Overall – Joe Tully (39 points C/B
• 1st Gents – Cormac O’Connell (39 points)
• 2nd Gents – Peter O’Hanlon (36 points)
• 3rd Gents – Dave Conlon (36 points)
• 1st Ladies – Olwen Mc Kinney (41 points)
• 2nd Ladies – Carol Anne O’Neill (36 points)
• 3rd Ladies – Marian Benton (34 points)
• Nearest the Pin – Eileen Penrose & Keith Raymond
• Longest drive – Audrey Headon & Dermot Merrigan
• Guest Prize – Mel Donnelly (39 points)

All those lucky winners benefitted from the usual uber generous sponsorship from Shannon Airport and Declan Power doled out fabulous hampers, bottles (of alcoholic beverages!) and even flight tickets! Amadeus also rolled in with generous sponsorship and contributed to an excellent day of golfing and camaraderie. Great food in the Clubhouse at St Margaret’s rounded off the outing and some of us ‘southsiders’ headed home across the Liffey to get a bit of practice in for the next outing in Castleknock on July 22nd. TIGS is such a special Society where travel industry colleagues have a unique opportunity to get together and play some magnificent courses at excellent rates. If you’re not already in, join up now – the golf and the craic is mighty!

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