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June 2010

Deutsche Golfplatztage enter the second round

Golf Congress: extreme climber Glowacz on "Mission Adventure"
Registration for Golf Business-Cup in progress

In September 2010, the golf sector meets in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg for four days to discuss the construction, maintenance and management of golf courses. The Deutsche Golfplatztage (German Golf Course Days) with some 100 exhibitors take place for the second time as part of the GaLaBau exhibition from 15-18 September. The Golf Congress 2010 parallel to this offers a varied programme with top speakers on 16-17 September. The event starts with the Golf Business-Cup on 15 September. The event is supported by the following German associations: Deutscher Golf Verband (DGV), Professional Golfers Association of Germany (PGA), Golf Management Verband Deutschland (GMVD), Greenkeeper Verband Deutschland (GVD), Bundesverband Golfanlagen (BVGA), and the two publications "golfmanager" and "Greenkeeper's Journal & European Journal of Turfgrass Science".

The Golf Congress offers a series of interesting presentations on topical issues from the golf sector, as revealed by an extract of the programme. The speakers on the first day of the congress include Stefan Glowacz, who is one of the foremost extreme climbers and a self-made entrepreneur. His mission is adventure. He reports on personal experiences on partly highly dangerous expeditions and how he manages to keep a cool head under extreme pressure in order to make the right decisions. After this, Panos Meyer, Managing Director of Deutsche Golf Online GmbH, presents new trends in the online segment and their significance for the golf club. He tackles questions like: Is it sufficient for a golf club to have a home page, communicate by mail, use an online registration form and send a weekly newsletter? Or does today's golf club need to have an iPhone application and network over Facebook? For the second day of the congress, the speakers obtained include the qualified Personal Coach Toni Carriero, who is regarded as an expert in motivation, personality, rhetoric and sales, and is one of the most popular seminar providers. He gives tips on how golf clubs can obtain new customers and keep the existing ones.

The Golf Congress will be shorter than in 2008 to give congress participants enough time to take a relaxed look around the Deutsche Golfplatztage.

Golf Business-Cup: early-bird discount until 15 July
To start off the 2nd Deutsche Golfplatztage and the Golf Congress in Nürnberg, the Golf Business-Cup 2010 will be organized on 15 September on the top course of the Abenberg Golf Club. The congress fee is 300 euros for association members (DGV, PGA, GMVD, GVD and BVGA) and 400 euros for guests. Applications received by 15 July 2010 qualify for an early-bird discount of 50 euros, i.e. members of the associations listed above pay only 250 euros and guests 350 euros. The entry fee for the Golf Business Cup 2010 is 60 euros for association members and 70 euros for guests.

A limited number of rooms are available in partner hotels in Nürnberg for visitors attending the congress and taking part in the Golf Business Cup. More information about this and the Golf Congress and Golf Business Cup is available on the Internet at www.golfkongress.de and about the Deutsche Golfplatztage www.galabau.info-web.de/golfplatztage-gb .

The complete programme is available