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,...
by Jeff Gilder | Apr 30, 2026 | Jeff's Blog
For years, the conventional wisdom around golf travel was easy to sketch: a 55-and-older guy, retired or close to it, with the time and disposable income to fly south for a buddies’ trip or drive up to a bucket-list resort. Plenty of forecasts assumed that as...
by Jeff Gilder | Mar 27, 2026 | Jeff's Blog
A new industry conversation published this week gets at something worth sitting with: the golf trip itself is evolving, and the resorts paying attention to why are the ones pulling ahead. European Tour Destinations sat down with Daphne Yuanidis, Senior Consultant at...
by Jeff Gilder | Feb 22, 2026 | Jeff's Blog
Following up on the spending data we covered last week: golfers have the budget and the intent to travel in 2026. The next question is where. This year’s championship calendar makes that an easier call than usual — there’s an unusually rich lineup of...
