Dom O'Byrne

Category: Golf

Golf Business, Tours

Not Sure About Solheim Competitiveness

Golf fans hoping for a glimpse of the genteel side of professional golf will likely be disappointed with a Solheim Cup spectacle, writes  John Huggan in The Scotsman ( bit.ly/ocm6Yf 18 December 2011). The reported bad behaviour of previous US players Beth Daniel, Dottie Pepper and Christina Kim would never be tolerated by a lady captain’s…

The Trust Curve

In 2007 and 2008 the business of sourcing news from all over the world was straightforward. It looks set to become so once again. From the laptop I ran a successful 2-way communications channel with client distributor networks around the world. A lot of it was habit: once they got used to it they were…

What’s important

Between 2002 and 2008 we enjoyed (seriously enjoyed) boom time in golf. We’ll do figures later, but this has been like a siege. Clients and suppliers have generally managed to get by. But more importantly, they have given credit for products and services way beyond what is reasonable. When the good times return, we’ll look back…

Salute Seve!

You can read his achievements on any number of websites and in all the papers, but most importantly, the death of Seve Ballasteros must make all of us in golf re-appraise what the game means to us, and – crucially – conduct our business in a way that our fellows would remember us with just…

False Prophets of Recovery?

How much fun has it been holding our breaths for the last two and a half years, Guys? Nanoseconds before the bubble burst for golf in about July 2008, my coterie of clients were planning (and doing) big. Our stalwarrt global distributor & retailer network was fully engaged and doing brisk business; they weren’t perhaps to know…

This needn’t happen here

If we can learn lessons from a blighted business sector we ought to. Alongside golf, one of my greatest passions is playing guitar. Sounds glam, perhaps, but it isn’t. I play for my own amusement really… a few times a month at Mass and at the odd party when the intake of drink emboldens me far…