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Category: Golf Management

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,…

Are You a Birdie Commander?

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We just released our latest iOS update for iPhone / iPad and there’s so cool new feature available you definitely will enjoy: BADGES! […]

GameBook at PGA Show

It was yet again a great experience to visit the PGA Merchandise Show this year. It was the 60th time for the PGA Show, which is held annually in Orlando, FL. GameBook was not exhibiting this as we did in 2010 and 2011 when launching the Golf GameBook app, our mobile community and the GameBook…

Our Year 2012 in a Nutshell

Hey everybody! Firstly, Best wishes for year 2013 to all – hope you had a fantastic New Year’s Eve as well as holiday season between Xmas and NYE! We, at least, are now well-rested, been eating well (maybe too well) and ready for another great year! We can justifiably say that past year was a…

It’s Time for a Change

Surely you all noticed last week that so called anchored putting stroke will be banned as the result of a purposed rules change by the USGA and R&A. According to rule 14-1b: “In a making stroke, the player must not anchor the club, either ‘directly’ or by use of an anchor point.” And then there…

Mobile Live Scoring on College Golf Tournaments

Hello friends! This time from Wilmington, North Carolina. We’re here to provide live scoring for Women’s college golf tournament in coming weekend. Last weekend we lauched GameBook mobile live scoring service for college golf tournaments at the Golf Club of Georgia on The United States Collegiate Championship (USCC), hosted by Georgia Tech. Everything went well…

Innovative Steps Towards Golf 2.0

We all have noticed the interesting development within golf industry. Just take a look at course design or the innovation speed of the equipment industry. During the last 10 years the game has been changing along the rapid technology development, and with our society. There are some sensitive topics as well. For example, there’s a…

The Awesome Openness of The Open

We just arrived back form The Open Championship 2012 and will together with Mikko Rantanen share the experience with you. Here the first post from me – about how impressing it was to see that this huge golf event somehow manages to be reachable, exactly as it should be.  If you are a keen golfer…

Why Golf Clubs Should Value Junior Golf?

  During the last nine years I have spent quite a lot time on the golf courses with junior golfers. An annual series of events, called Free Drop Junior Golf, was born already in 2003, when Kalle Väinölä and I decided to offer young children and teens free golf holidays in several golf courses in…