About the GRAA
The Golf Range Association of America (GRAA) will be entering its 18th year in 2010. The GRAA is a membership trade organization that counts owners, operators, general manager and teaching professionals at both golf ranges and golf courses among its members in the U.S. and Canada. The GRAA is focused on all golf facilities in the sweet spot of teaching & training; clubfitting and retail; practice and other family recreational amenities.
Golf Range Magazine Current Issue
SPRNG ISSUE now available
The SPRING Issue is packed full of helpful information and ‘Best Practices’ for owners, operators and gm’s. Golf Range Magazine looks back at the PGA Merchandise Show as well as the GRAA "Solutions Summit". Take a look at some of the Visitors who stopped by our GRAA booth at the PGA Show. Read all about the "other Toski", that would be 84 year-old Massachusett’s PGA pro Tom Toski (brother of Bob). Down in Georgia, Hackers Golf Park is ready to build "The Clubhouse". Our Q & A series called The Tee Line-Small Talk with Golf People talks with Susan Roll from Carlsbad Golf Center. Do you want to nominate your Par-3 or Executive Course as a Top Shorts Courses in America? Here is the self-nomination form.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
It may seem implausible that the place where Ben Hogan won his first check as a professional, $350 for a third-place finish in the 1938 Sacramento Open, is the same place that recently installed Power Tee, a state-of-the-art system that provides golfers on the golf driving range with continuous ready-to-hit balls. Yet this juxtaposition of history and modernity represents the essence of what distinguishes Haggin Oaks Golf Complex as a world-class facility.
"We grew up out there," says Ken Morton Jr., referring to the well-known locale where he and his brother Tom Morton, PGA Director of Player Performance at Haggin Oaks, spent their childhoods learning about golf and high expectations.
Their father, Ken Morton Sr., Haggin Oaks PGA Director of Golf and CEO of Morton Golf, and the Haggin Oaks Golf Complex have received many accolades through the years for outstanding achievement in numerous categories. A 2010 Golf Range Magazine Top-100 Golf Ranges in America, Haggin Oaks is known coast to coast for setting a standard to which many other facilities aspire. This year marked the 35th annual Golf Expo. Held April 30-May 2 on the 1st and 10th fairways of the Arcade Course, it featured over 150 companies and drew 21,000 attendees. The Haggin Oaks Golf Expo now accounts for 10 percent of the facility’s annual revenue. Read the entire feature written by Sally J. Sportsman here…
WHY JOIN THE GRAA?
The GRAA is your trade association. We have great membership programs and benefits geared to 18-hole golf courses, Short Courses golf ranges and learning centers. Our mission statement is: "To Make Our Members More Profitable" Click here to view 2010 membership benefits and either join or renew your membership.
Top 100 Golf Ranges in America.
Top 10 Golf Domes in America.
Congratulations to this year's award winners. We received hundreds of submissions and photos, DVD’s photo CD;s and the like. There are so many wonderful facilities, but most importantly there are an equal number of dedicated and committed individuals who participate in this great industry.
Download the 2010 Top 100 Golf Ranges in America.
Click here to view a PDF of the Top 10 Golf Domes in America.