How to Play Golf and Make Money

Home : : Business : : Submit Article : : Contact Us

How to Play Golf and Make Money

Although most of us don?t get the chance to win a million dollars by playing in the final group on Sunday, we can still play golf and make lots of money. Unlike most other sports, golf is the game of business. Men and women across the globe, play the game as both recreation, and as a way of doing business. From pro tours to recreational golfers worldwide, golf is truly an international sport.

As a business golf speaker, consultant, and author, I teach business professionals how they can utilize golf to strengthen their business relationships and increase sales. I discovered the power of business golf while I was a practicing attorney in San Francisco specializing in commercial real estate transactions.

Whether talking with clients, or at a networking event, I always felt the rapport level deepened when the conversation turned to golf. Golfers always seem to enjoy talking about the game, whether it?s their own, or the great shot they saw on television by a tour pro.

Here are six tips on how you can play golf and make money. For those of you who play already, choose one or two and make them a part of your business golf game. If you don?t play yet, I hope they?ll inspire you to take up the game.

Golf & Money-Making Tip #1: Schedule Your Golf!

If you don?t play golf often, or don?t know how to play at all, you?re less likely to obtain the benefits of playing business golf. It?s like the lottery. If you don?t buy a ticket, you?ll never win the jackpot!

One obstacle for many people is that they believe they don?t have time to play. If time is an issue for you, then make it a goal, schedule time in your organizer or PDA for a reasonable number of rounds of golf or practice sessions you want to have per month. Perhaps you want to play a business golf round once a month (when weather permits) and spend 30-45 minutes per week at a driving range.

If you fine-tune your swing during the winter, you?ll be ready for golf in the spring. One way to fit golf into your schedule: put a few irons, your 3-wood, and putter in the trunk of your car. The next time you?re stuck in traffic or have time in between appointments, stop at a local golf course or driving range, and have a practice session. It beats sitting in traffic and getting road rage.

If you don?t play golf yet, winter is the best time to learn how to play. Why? Golf professionals at your local golf course usually have more time for you. During the peak summer days, the professional is in high demand, with lessons scheduled back-to-back, and will be less inclined or unable to spend extra time with you. Ask some golfing friends for referrals to a local golf professional at a covered or indoor driving range. If you take lessons now, you?ll be ready to hit the course when everyone else is ready to play.

It?s also a good time to read about golf, so you can become familiar with the language, etiquette, and rules of the game. For an easy-to-read primer on the game, check out my book, On Course for Business (Wiley). Whether you?re a beginner or an experienced golfer, you?ll find a nugget or two of information that will help you make your business golf rounds more profitable.

Golf and Money-Making Tip #2: Maximize Your Links on the Links

The beauty of a golf round with clients and prospects is it?s five hours of soft selling who you are, your company, and what you know. Each golfer spends only a total of a few minutes actually hitting the ball. The rest of the time is spent talking and getting to know one another?s background, personality, and character in a relaxed atmosphere.

Unlike tennis where you?re across the net from one another, golf allows you to be with your playing partners. Golf also provides better relationship-building opportunities because you?re not hitting a shot for your playing partner to miss. If you?re playing business golf properly, you should be thrilled when your client hits a good shot and plays well.

Play more golf with clients, prospects, and referral sources to build and deepen your business relationships.

Golf & Money-Making Tip #3: Golf Never Lies

When talking to sales teams about playing business golf, I emphasize the importance of playing with proper etiquette and adherence to the rules of golf. As noted in Tip #2, you?re with your client and prospect for about five hours. During that time you and your playing partners have a chance to watch each other in action. They might notice whether you step on a player?s putting line, talk while someone is hitting, or inadvertently cheat in some way.

Playing a round of golf should solidify your business relationships. When speaking to groups, I ask participants how they feel when they play with someone who plays with poor etiquette or cheats during a round of golf. Most of them agree that it?s a turn-off to have to play under those circumstances, and they do so only to maintain the business. Other business golfers, such as financial consultants, who are concerned with a client?s integrity and reasonableness of expectations, have said they won?t do business with that person if they don?t enjoy their round of golf. And, if they cheat, they?ll find another client that they can trust.

To make a positive impression about who you are and the company you work for, play your business golf rounds with proper etiquette and know the basic rules of golf. You don?t want to sabotage your business relationships when you?re trying to solidify them.

Golf & Money-Making Tip #4: Don?t Bet with Your Playing Partners

I played a round of golf with three business associates/friends where a small bet for a round of drinks on the back nine turned ugly. One player?s fierce competitiveness came out and you could feel the tension on every tee and green. It was a shock to my friend and me as we felt the change in personality over a simple bet for drinks.

If you?re playing golf for business with clients or prospects, don?t suggest a bet. It creates a win-lose feeling, which isn?t what you want during a business golf round. If your playing partner suggests a wager, and you can?t get out of making one, then make it a small wager like drinks or lunch, rather than hard cash. Regardless of the wager, make sure you?re comfortable losing, and assume you?ve lost the bet. That way your competitiveness won?t come out during the round and sabotage your relationship-building goal of the round.

Remember your business golf rounds are a time to deepen your relationships?it?s not a time to try to play your best round of golf to beat your playing partners.

Golf & Money-Making Tip #5: Play Golf as a Single

A client told me that she started to sign up for golf tournaments as a single. She was excited because her technique worked?she got a new client worth about $1 million dollars!

As a single player, she entered a golf tournament, which was sponsored by her trade association in the credit card industry. She was teamed with three others, and fortuitously shared a cart with a business owner. While playing together, she learned about his business and his business needs. As the tournament activities were winding down, she mentioned that she thought her company had some solutions for him and asked if she could call to talk about it. After a couple of meetings, she sold him on her services and her company, and they had a deal?all thanks to a round of golf.

Keep in your golf bag a business card holder with a few crisp cards. You never know whom you might meet on the golf course.

Golf & Money-Making Tip #6: Become a Golf Mentor

If you?re an experienced golfer, you might remember when you first started to learn the game. Did you feel intimidated by it all?the language, the etiquette, the customs, and the like? I can recall my feelings of uncertainty when I first played on a golf course. I didn?t know what the different colored tees meant and which set I was supposed to hit from? How far could I hit the ball? What did all of the numbers on the scorecard mean? Fortunately, I had some friends who helped me along the way. They made my first round of golf an enjoyable learning experience and told me not to worry about my score.

If you have a colleague, a client, a referral source, or someone you think could benefit from learning how to play golf, volunteer to be his or her golf mentor. You can start with the basics such as helping him find a golf instructor for swing lessons. You can offer her some tips on the language, the rules of the game, and how to play with proper etiquette. You might also want to have a practice session at a driving range, so both of you can work on your swings and putting game.

You?ll solidify your working relationship, and likely learn something new about the game. And, to thank you for your time and energy, the person you?ve helped play this great game will likely thank you with more referrals or business.

See You at the First Tee

I hope you?ve enjoyed these tips on how you can play golf and make lots of money. Golf truly provides a unique opportunity to build your business while you get some fresh air and exercise. I hope to see you at the first tee, or at least to keep in touch with BizGolf E-Tips, my bi-weekly business golf tips.

If you have any thoughts about these tips (hate 'em, love 'em or have a tip to share), please send me an email at suzanne@bizgolf.biz. I welcome any opportunity to chat about golf and business! Or, to learn more about the business golf services that I provide, visit www.bizgolf.biz.

Author Info:

Suzanne Woo is a sought after business golf speake, consulant and author of On Course for Business (Wiley), the book on how to use golf to develop and enhance business relationships and increase sales. Clients include Merrill Lynch, National Car Rental, Andersen, and a host of other corporations and associations. To learn how to play business golf more effectively, visit www.bizgolf.biz or contact Suzanne Woo at 800.722.8909 or suzanne@bizgolf.biz.

30 Most Recent Articles :

Affiliate Programs That Make You Money by Ratliff J

This information may be helpful for everyone, regardless of how long you have been in the affiliate business, or even if you are just getting started. First, a good affiliate program can be hard to come by. It needs to offer decent commissions, accurately track sales, and most importantly, pay[ Read Article]

Your Content for Nothing and Your Clicks for Free by David Westbrook

Your Content for Nothing and Your Clicks for Free ? 2005, David Westbrook You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as you leave the article title, author name, body and resource box in tact with the links made active This article has[ Read Article]

The Truth about Google?s Adsense affiliate program. by Shawn Ventura

The truth about Google?s Adsense program is that it is amazing. It?s the greatest affiliate program ever invented. There is no affiliate program that even comes close. If you are not using Google?s Adsense, you?re truly missing out on a great opportunity. I?ve tried several other affiliate program[ Read Article]

How to make money with Affiliate Programs - The Sensible Way by Xavier Nelson

Every day, thousands of would-be marketers scour the internet looking for any and every affiliate program, sign up, sit back and wait for the money to pour in and get frustrated just as fast when the bank balance still shows a big, fat ZERO! There are tons of guru's floating around and even [ Read Article]

Affiliate Program Intro by Shanon Lewis

What is an affiliate program? Everyone who surfs the web has come across affiliate programs. You may have seen a banner on a website that says, ?click here?, and once you do, you get access to whatever?s being promoted. Or you could click on a link in an email you?ve received. You?re using someone[ Read Article]

Poor Birdy by Robert Kennedy

I want to tell you a true story that is actually sad, but perhaps there is a learning lesson for all of us here. Today I woke up ready to get busy. My basic routine is shower, shave and Java. I had a few meetings this morning so I had to stop at a local 7-11 for my java (coffee). I pull into the p[ Read Article]

Loving Without Losing Yourself by Allie Ochs

Loving Without Losing Yourself! You are in love and this time it is different. You are prepared to do anything to make it last. To prevent this ship from sinking you work hard to steer this relationship into a safe harbor. In the process you lose yourself and your romantic relationship becomes [ Read Article]

Nicely Designed Pillows As Gifts by Glenn Prialde

Many of us are probably squeezing out our brains to the limit just for a single purpose, to think of what to give especially when it?s Christmas or just a simple birthday present. It?s always nice to give the jewelries, toys, clothes and shoes as we all had been used to of what to give. But haven?[ Read Article]

All About Paintballs by Tim Bach

All About Paintballs Paintballs are gelatin capsules filled with a water-soluble marking dye. The dye inside is non-toxic, meaning that if you swallow it, it will not hurt you. However, the taste is not very pleasant. Paintballs are manufactured by many different companies. As with most thin[ Read Article]

Alarm Systems: Not Just For The Wealthy Anymore! by Matthew Francis

Over the last 22 years that I have been involved in the security alarm industry, I have seen quite an evolution. Changes have not only taken place in what type of equipment is available, but also in how the consumer buys and use?s the equipment. When I first started in the business, alarms wher[ Read Article]

Can you get fuller breasts from natural breast enhancement supplements? by Danna Schneider

There have, in very recent years, been a flood of breast enhancement and breast enlargement supplements put on the market. All of them make the same claims of being an effective and safe alternative to breast augmentation surgery. For many women, small or unattractively shaped and sized breasts are [ Read Article]

keeping New Year's Resolutions by John Satterfield CH

Success With New Year?s Resolutions John Satterfield is a certified hypnotherapist practicing in Mountain View. He specializes in helping clients have success with stopping smoking and losing weight You can reach him by telephone at 870-269-6811 Also get his free report ?Never Be Lied To Again?[ Read Article]

Melanin: Aging of the Skin and Skin Cancer

"Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is responsible for 90% of the visible signs of aging on the skin of whites," says Dr. Michael J. Martin, former Assistant Clinical Professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco. Blacks' skin, however, ages much sl[ Read Article]

Sunlight for Your Life

All life on the planet and everything in nature is dependent on the sun. Without the sun, there would be no life on the planet. All life is dependent on the sun. Plants convert the sunlight into energy, and all animals need plant life or other animals in order to live. All life in nature is depend[ Read Article]

?Super Verbs? Really Move Your Copy by Karon Thackston

By Karon Thackston ? 2004 http://www.learn-copywriting.com Run or hustle? Eat or devour? Move or scurry? You can boost the power of your copy by boosting the quality of verbs you use. Verbs show action, and the way you describe that action can have a dramatic bearing on your readers. Why would[ Read Article]

How To Get Attention, or: 'As You Read This, You Feel an Irresistible Urge to Go On Reading!' by Kai Virihaur

We all want attention. As children we crave the attention of our parents. Later in life, we want to be seen and noticed by friends and lovers. And when running most any type of business, we must attract the attention of our potential customers. But how do you get somebody's undivided attention?[ Read Article]

Hitching a Ride on Current Events by Paul J. Krupin

You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated - send to Hitching a Ride on Current Events by Paul J. Krupin Current events do present opportunities for me[ Read Article]

How to "Disguise" Your Sales Letters Online by Andrew Clacy

How to ?Disguise? Your Sales Letters Online The Internet is known as the ?Information Super Highway? and that?s a term that every Internetmarketer should know by heart. Why? People log onto the Internet to get information,not to be sold. Many people online are turned off at anything thatresemb[ Read Article]

Your Article is Being Used Without a Resource Box - What Can You Do? by Francisco Aloy

Your Article is Being Used Without a Resource Box - What can you do? Sooner or later, no matter how much you hate it, some Webmaster is going to use your article and won't include your resource box. Another common practice is that of replacing your HTML link with a text link. Funny thing,when [ Read Article]

A simple 7-step checklist to test your ads by Andre Clacy www.explosivecopycourse.com

Imagine if you had in your hand a simple, bullet-proof, 7-step checklist to test your ads and sales letters. Well, here?s a simple 7-step checklist that Joe uses every time he writes copy. Every marketing piece of his that passes the test has gone on to generate sales. In one of his les[ Read Article]

How Does Spellchecker make you Lazy? by David Parton

It's a crime what laziness can do. That's the downside of automation and software tools. People get lazy. Don't get me wrong, I love technology and I depend on Spell-checking software to help with my writing. It finds the typos but it does not find all the spelling mistakes.It does not find the[ Read Article]

How To Test Your Headlines Without Spending A Fortune In Advertising Fees by Thomas A. Hilton, Jr.

So, you've spent all this time on creating your product and you've read all the advice from every marketing expert on the internet. You've discovered one common ground among them all. And they all do agree on this one thing. Testing the headlines is critical. They all say that it's the absol[ Read Article]

How To Write Powerful Headlines by Al Martinovic

How To Write Powerful Headlines By Al Martinovic I want to tell you how I go about writing headlines. I like to keep swap files of headlines around for future use. And how I go about doing it goes something like this... I'll find a headline I like, wherever it may be, and then I don't copy[ Read Article]

Public Relations?A Free Lunch? by Claire Cunningham

Seems like everyone is looking for the proverbial free lunch these days, particularly when it comes to marketing communications. Well, I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but there's no such thing. However, there are ways to stretch your budget and marketing public relations (PR) is one of them. [ Read Article]

Instant Messaging ? A Powerful Communication Tool for Your Business by Cavyl Stewart

Many people do it so innocently that it?s hard to believe the dangers that are lurking. Spammers, pfishers, hackers, predators ? they?re all poised to wreak havoc on you, your employees and your business contacts. Yet many people don?t even realize that these dangers exist because, after all, th[ Read Article]

International Telephone Calling Tips by Raymond Klesc

International Telephone Calling Tips By Raymond Klesc Global Value Connect http://www.globalvalueconnect.com If your business requires overseas communications with suppliers or customers; or if you have a loved one living or traveling abroad; you know that the cost for overseas calls can com[ Read Article]

How to Improve Your Word Power! by Royane Real

If you want to be a great communicator, do you need to have a great vocabulary? You might be surprised to learn that a really big vocabulary is not necessary in order to express yourself clearly and to move others with your words. Some of the most dramatic messages that have ever been utter[ Read Article]

E-Book Writing Formats: How to Make the Words Flow by Dina Giolitto, Wordfeeder.com

Nervous about writing your first e-book? Never fear. E-books are written in a conversational, informative style that's easy for the reader to understand, and easy for you to imitate as you write them. Whether it's ten pages about Smart Finances, 50 pages on How to Care for Your Cat or 250 pages co[ Read Article]

How To Breeze Through The Security Checkpoint At Airports by Jamie Madison

Permission is freely granted to use this article so long as our resource box remains at the end of this article with all links live. Air travel is such a common method of transportation today, we sometimes forget the practical tips to help us enjoy a flight. The following tips will help you red[ Read Article]

The Pyramids of Giza by Steven N. Ng

The most famous Egyptian pyramids to be built are the Great Pyramids of Giza, located in the outskirts of present-day Cairo. There are over 100 Egyptian pyramids of various sizes, and over 50 more in neighboring Sudan. However, the three Great Pyramids of Giza earn their fame by being the largest [ Read Article]

Partners : Free Online Games -

heroes rapidshare hol2 mieszkania do wynajecia Pozycjonowanie strony cracovia kraków

Vilcacora - Funny Videos - Pokrycia dachowe - My songs - Tourism - quote - youtube downloader - Vilcacora - Money online - Free Internet Software - Firmenadressen - Free Photo Editing Software - real estate agency - Warum immer ich? - photo retouching

Forex sprê¿arki oferta mmo Fretti Jungle Kursy tañca, rysunku... Sony Ericsson W760