by Jeff Gilder | Sep 12, 2026 | Jeff's Blog, Show Notes
A Brewery, a Ballpark, and Two Great Golf Courses Dick Yuengling’s love of baseball is what led him to Tampa in the first place — a fantasy camp trip that turned into buying an old brewery just up the road. Now the Yuengling Tampa Campus is part brewery,...
by Jeff Gilder | Sep 12, 2026 | Jeff's Blog, Releases
Fifteen years ago, Traveling Golfer set out with a simple idea: take readers, then listener, then viewers to the courses, the destinations, and the people that make golf travel worth talking about. What started as a single article has grown into something bigger than...
by Jeff Gilder | Aug 6, 2026 | Jeff's Blog
A new market forecast published this week puts a long-range number on golf travel’s growth trajectory, and it’s a big one: the global golf tourism market, valued at $27.98 billion in 2025, is projected to grow from $30.55 billion in 2026 to $61.8 billion...
by Jeff Gilder | Jul 21, 2026 | Jeff's Blog
If you’re picturing the highest-value golf consumer as a 55-year-old with a country club membership, new data says it’s time to update the picture. A report published this week lays out just how far the industry’s spending power has shifted toward...
by Jeff Gilder | Jun 3, 2026 | Jeff's Blog
The golf trip is changing shape. A new study out this week from 18Players, conducted jointly with the International Golf Travel Market (IGTM), confirms something a lot of destinations have been feeling anecdotally for a while: the course is still the reason for the...
by Jeff Gilder | May 29, 2026 | Jeff's Blog, Uncategorized
Every so often an industry gets a data point that turns a vibe into a fact. This week it was Mordor Intelligence, whose new global golf tourism market report puts a hard number on something Traveling Golfer has been covering anecdotally for years: this is a real,...
