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My Day at GameBook Invitational

On a chilly and sunny September Monday morning two weeks ago, me and my friend Anniina Paatsama packed up our golf gear and headed towards Hämeenlinna to attend the GameBook Invitational held at Linna Golf. My attendance to different golf tournaments/ events has slacked after my competitive golf career ended 7 years ago so these…

Robban’s 2000 rounds with GameBook

As we all know, it is rather difficult to find the time to golf sometimes. I mean who wishes that they would have a bit more time to golf instead of sitting at the office? There is a man though, who plays golf around 8 times per week. We introduced him to you in our…

Meet our Ambassadors: Costa Rica, part II

In the previous Ambassador blog post, we got to know one of GameBook’s Ambassadors in Costa Rica, Juan Pablo. This time we’ll meet another #GBambassador from Costa Rica, Agustin. Agustin has been playing golf for about 13 years because a couple of his good friends inspired him to begin the sport. Ironically, they don’t golf anymore,…

Meet our Ambassadors: Sweden

In this blog series we are introducing the GameBook Ambassadors. Last week we traveled to Australia to meet Jonathan. This time we are going to meet Petter from Sweden. Petter describes himself with the following phrase: I Hate to Lose! He started golf at the age of 10, in his hometown Västervik in Sweden at Ekhagens Golf Course….

A Day at TPC Sugarloaf with Stewart Cink

How about winning a round of golf at TPC Sugarloaf with your golf buddies and meeting GameBook Ambassador Stewart Cink? The most active GameBook golfers in Georgia that participated in the Stewart Cink Georgia campaign between August 1st and September 30th were awarded with a round of golf at TPC Sugarloaf and the chance to…

Game formats on GameBook, part 3 – Ever heard of these?

In addition to sporting a broad range of different game formats for both team and individual games, the founders of GameBook have developed two formats of their own. Duplicate and Erado are both alterations of or additions to the more traditional game formats. And they were designed to make golf more fun and interesting. Just…

New Year’s Resolutions of a GameBook golfer

It’s the beginning of a new year and once again time to become a better man or woman. That means time for new year’s resolutions. Here is a list of the resolutions every golfer should make and how GameBook can help you keep them. And finally, there’s one resolution we would like to make. I…

Game Formats on GameBook, part 2 – Let’s team up!

In addition to the individually played classic game formats (introduced in part one of this series) GameBook also offers a variety of game formats for teams. While golf is an individual sport – without a question – golf is also very social. And every once in a while it’s good to have somebody else to…

Game Formats on GameBook, part 1 – We call them the classics

As many of you might already know, GameBook originally started as a project of two Finnish golf professionals Kalle Väinölä and Mikko ”Mane” Manerus. They knew – just as well as anyone who has played for a long time – that golf can sometimes be hard. Very hard. Especially when you need to be keeping…

Winner of The Road to the RBC Canadian Open

  As a result of the GameBook pre-launch campaign with Golf Canada, The Road to the RBC Canadian Open, we have been holding the number one spot on the list of most downloaded free sports apps on the Canadian App Store. That’s a fantastic start! The grand prize of our competition was a VIP experience…