According to a recent report from compensation consulting firm Eckler Ltd., the average salary increase across Canada is expected to be 4.2 per cent in 2023. That is the biggest increase in 20 years and welcome news to anybody struggling financially due to inflation or high interest rates in these post-pandemic years. However, business owners […]
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The Golf Industry Has Plenty Of People Willing To Replace “Me” With “We” In Times Of Need
As this contribution was being crafted on Wednesday, Hurricane Ian had not quite reached Category 5 status as its winds and rain were already hitting Florida’s Gulf Coast, with devastating storm surge. Numbers such as Cat 4 or 5 mean nothing in the clean-up afterwards and how bad that is in Florida remained to be […]
Should “Quiet Quitting” Be Grounds For Termination?
A popular term being thrown around social media these days is “quiet quitting,” by those who don’t actually quit their jobs, but seek a better work-life balance by not going beyond their job descriptions and not do anything extra at work. The term appears to have come from the Covid-19 pandemic among workers who feel […]
Will The Golf Course Where You Work/Play Be Closed A Month From Now?
We went past the midway point of September last week and just concluded the final week of official summer. There’s a bit of colour on the trees where I live and there have been a few chilly mornings, but there have also been plenty of summer-like days this month, enough to belie the fact that […]
Nick Taylor On His First Round 67 At Season Opener: “To Finish Off Like I Did Was A Nice Way To Start The Year”
Nick Taylor admits he started the season-opening Fortinet Championship in a fog, but then again, so did the entire tournament, which was suspended at 7:20 a.m. local time due to fog, adding 90 minutes to the original tee times posted. Once he got going in Napa, Calif,, Taylor put up three birdies and three bogeys […]
Will Rising Interest Rates/Inflation Cause Golf Businesses To Back Off On Major Capital Expenditures?
The Bank of Canada jacked up its trendsetting interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point last Wednesday to 3.25 per cent. That alone may be enough for a business to put the brakes on any capital expenditure, but even if it does have the available cash and doesn’t need a loan or the […]
Trevor Immelman On Selecting Taylor Pendrith To Play Presidents Cup: “The Fact That He’s One Of The Best Drivers Of The Ball Really Does Give Him A Huge Advantage”
When @TaylorPendrith got the call 📞#IntlTeam #PresidentsCup pic.twitter.com/e1iNIoIx68 — Presidents Cup International Team (@IntlTeam) September 6, 2022 For the first time in Presidents Cup history, the International team will have more than one Canadian in the lineup when it’s played at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, N.C. Canada’s Taylor Pendrith was named on Tuesday by captain […]
How Did Your August Rounds Compare To A Year Earlier?
The leaves haven’t begun to turn, not yet anyway, but there is a nip in the morning air. The high school/university students who worked as seasonal staff just a few short weeks ago are back in class. Labour Day is over and summer is winding down, with September quite likely the final full month of […]
Does Your Place Of Employment Do Anything Special For Departing Summer Staff?
We’re into the final week before Labour Day, that time of year when golf begins changing like the leaves. It’s a slow process, but it won’t be long until you start to notice the fall colours around the golf course, where there will also be fewer people around than at the peak of the season. […]
How Did Your Summer Staff Compare To Other Non-Pandemic Years?
Nobody wants to be the person to bring this up, but you know anyway that the peak of Canadian golf season is beginning to wind down. The calendar says that September is just over a week away and a sure sign is that high school and university students who worked at your golf business over […]