Steering Tomorrow's Course for Golf Business

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Golf is a business, a profession, a sport, or a social excuse, depending entirely on one's contact with the game. As a business it is one of the most remarkable America has ever known. In spite of, until recent years, untrained administration, lack of planning, under-and-overfinancing, and a host of other "don'ts" that are usually quick death to any ordinary business undertaking, golf has not only grown by leaps and bounds but today ranks, for all ages from 8 to 80, as America's leading sport.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011