It was the year 2006 and both me and the other GameBook co-founder Kalle Väinölä had spent most of our adult lives playing competitive golf. We had made it to tournaments on The Challenge Tour and even The European Tour, but hadn’t really succeeded in making the final breakthrough. As it began to dawn on…
The story of Golf GameBook began almost a decade ago. 10 years might not be a very long time in some contexts, but when it comes to anything digital the world looked very different back in 2006. So different in fact, that nobody really talked about digitalization (especially the digitalization of golf) and people weren’t…
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…
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…
Rory McIlroy took home the Claret Jug from this year’s Open Championship, but he wasn’t the only winner strolling the fairways at Royal Liverpool Golf Club this past weekend. This summer we here at Golf GameBook teamed up with MasterCard to give a priceless surprise to two lucky golfers from the UK. The winners drawn were Sam…
After colourful events on the last day, this year’s Honda Classic culminated in a four-man playoff about a week ago. It was the young American Russell Henley who birdied The 549-yard 18th that was the first playoff hole and took home a win – his second on the PGA Tour. Now that the tournament weekend…
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…
Christmas time is here again and we are approaching the end of year 2013. For us here at GameBook it has been a pretty great year. Our community of golfers has kept growing and we’ve had the pleasure to be involved in some big events around the world as well as form some new partnerships….
Christmas is just around the corner and this year (just like every other year) I am struggling (just like most people are) with finding the right gifts to friends and family. If your near and dear ones are golfers you can always opt for golf related girfts. Naturally the thing that makes every golfer happy…
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…