The Turn

After hosting two clinics for the Ak-Chin Indian Community at Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club in Maricopa, AZ, NBCSports & GolfChannel Analyst Notah Begay III sat down with us in a great conversation on how he is doing his part to grow the game of golf, stories from his playing days with former Stanford teammate and friend, Tiger Woods, and much more! Special thanks to Ak-Chin Southern Dunes General Manager, Brady Wilson, for joining us for this great conversation as well!

In this edition of The Turn Podcast, Kris Strauss, Troon senior vice president of Sales and Marketing, was joined by the Peter Walton who is the President & Chief Executive of IAGATO, the Global Golf Tourism Organization, at their recent North American Conference in Austin, TX. The two discuss various trends in golf travel and take a peak into the future!

We were honored to be joined by a legend in the golf industry as Bill Coore of the renowned Coore and Crenshaw Golf Course architectural firm join Jared Cohen and Troon Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Kris Strauss, to have an in-depth discussion on golf course design, history and of course updates on the big Kapalua Plantation refinement project which is set to be completed before the end of the year.

While competing in the World Long Drive's Ak-Chin Smash in the Sun in Maricopa, AZ, Trent Scruggs, the number 14th ranked World Long Drive competitor in the world sat down with us to give us insight on life on the Long Drive tour. Plus how it has evolved in recent years and a discussion on the future of golf.

We know we need great, not just good photography. But what are key things we need to know in order to obtain it? James Patrick is an award-winning and internationally published commercial and editorial photographer and best selling author based in Arizona. He, along with Troon Vice President, Julia Kelly, discuss key tactics for finding the right photographer, strategies for photography, growing your Instagram and so much more in what is one of the best discussions we've had on the show!

How many times have you as an adult wished something like the Drive, Chip and Putt was around when you were a kid? Or at least visualize how you would compete in it while some of these incredible kids participate at Augusta National ahead of Masters Week? Well check this out! The Tee2Green Challenge is a growing competition in the Western US which is pretty much Drive, Chip and Putt for adults! The founders of Tee2Green joined the show to give us a background of their great new game!

What's new? What's innovative? What's buzzing? Kris Strauss, the senior vice president of sales and marketing for Troon, joins the show fresh off his experience at the 2019 PGA Show to discuss all of this and more!

To wrap up year one of The Turn Podcast, Jared Cohen is joined by Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Troon, Kris Strauss. Every two years, Troon surveys a random sampling of golfers across the United States to learn more about the consumer and the direction of the industry through various trends. Kris and Jared pulled out key findings from this 2018 edition of the Golfer Survey with topics ranging from rounds and playing habits, social media usage, travel trends, fitness and more.

Best ways of leveraging the media is a common conversation among those in sales and marketing within the golf industry. With content continuing to rule as we approach 2019, what better to learn the best ways of utilizing the media than with a media member? ESPN.com Staff Writer Josh Weinfuss joins the show to discuss just that as well as trends he is seeing and engagement on social media.

Broadcasted from the Golf Inc. Strategies Summit from Carlsbad, CA, Jared Cohen is joined by VP of Operations at Troon, Bill O'Brien, and General Manager at Princeville Makai Golf Club in Hawaii, Doug Sutter, for a discussion on creating, planning and implementing that experience at your property that makes a customer step back and say "wow."