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Every Day Challenge – proving less isn’t always more

You know how they say that “less is more”? Well, we don’t necessarily agree with that. Or what do you think of a golf tournament with over 250,000 participants and more than 100 winners? For the second consecutive year, Golf GameBook organised the biggest (and most fun) golf tournament in Finland. Starting in the beginning of…

Getting Closer to The Open: Priceless

Today is the final day of The 144th Open at the home of golf – St Andrews, Scotland. Spectators around the globe are anxious to see who will take home Claret Jug, The Golf Champion Trophy. Golf GameBook teamed up with MasterCard to offer two lucky golfers in the UK a priceless chance to be…

The Listener’s Cup

Golf GameBook was present at The Listener’s Cup 2015. The tournament was organized at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina between the 7th and 9th of July. GameBook provided livescoring for the tournament, including the up-to-date leaderboard, and Game Feed with photos from the event and trash talk between the players and teams. SiriusXM PGA Tour…

The U.S. Open at Chambers Bay

It is the week that golfers around the globe await. The U.S. Open arrives to Chambers Bay in the Pacific Northwest for the first time in the history of the tournament. The 115th U.S. Open begins tomorrow, and spectators are anxious to see how the pros will perform. Your Race to Dubai on Golf GameBook…

Your Race to Dubai strategy guide for hardcore gamers

Your Race to Dubai, our groundbreaking fan game began last week at BMW PGA Championship, the flagship event of The European Tour. It’s a game which brings a whole new meaning to the gamification in golf – or nearly any sport. In Your Race to Dubai you have a chance to take on the brightest…

Take on the pros in Your Race to Dubai game!

Golf is such a great game. Anyone could hit one single shot better than Rory McIlroy, the best player in the world. You could even beat him on one particular hole, score better than the four-time major champion. If you are really lucky – and Rory is a bit off – you can do it…

Game Manager got a light facelift

We have done a light facelift on our tournament creation tool Game Manager. It’s been brought visually a bit closer to the GameBook family and the “Apple look and feel” GameBook is known for. In the process, we have done some functional fixes, which have made Game Manager significantly faster and more reliable. In addition,…

How Matteo got a new fan

We went to Abu Dhabi last week as did many of the world’s best golfers. And as it happens, we were lucky enough to exchange a few words with a very happy winner who had a strikingly wide grin on his face. No doubt that Frenchman Gary Stal was feeling like the luckiest man in…

GameBook highlights of the year 2014

Not too many days left of the year 2014. From GameBook’s point of view, it’s been a year of great stories. We chose the very best of them. GameBook user of the year We have an astonishing number of magnificent, active and loyal users around the world, but the man of more than 1000 rounds…

My (fake) interview with Old Tom Morris

Tiger Woods didn’t like the interview Dan Jenkins made with “him” last week. Guess who I met? The change agent of his time, Old Tom Morris. Why did you turn down previous interview requests with me? Well, I got a call from The Boss on the day your grandmother was born and I have been…