If being your boss is always on your mind, but you are out of ideas, here we are, with so many ideas to share! But before that, we need to ask you a few questions. Are you a golf enthusiast? Is it possible that, when you are not at home or not at work, you are most likely to be found at the golf course? If the answer is yes, then we are glad to announce that we can help! We can give you a few ideas about how to make golf your new startup business. We will provide fresh and new ideas about golf to help you turn your passion into a profitable business.
How to Choose a Profitable Golf Business Idea?
We are glad to give you a few ideas, but nobody else but you can understand what’s best for you and what doesn’t suit you. So we will provide you with a piece of advice – before choosing a new golf business idea, make sure that you do your homework or research thoroughly.
One more thing, you don’t need to be a pro at golf to start a new golf business, you can go for other golf related business ideas too.
Here we will discuss both big and small golf business ideas, feel free to choose whichever suits you. So, what are we waiting for? Let’s dig into these great ideas.
Mini Golf for Kids
Let your kids enjoy your mini golf course. They will learn about this sport in their way, and as adults, maybe they will enjoy the real thing, too. If you are good with kids, then the mini golf course is a profitable golf business idea. It will be entertaining and it will make you a little profit, too.
Glow in the Dark Golf
An indoor golf course has its popularity, and the glow in the dark course is similar to a miniature one, and it may even attract more people, because of the black light; the vibrant colors and the great lighting effect will keep your customers happy and entertained. So why don’t you give it a thought?
A Store
Owning your golf store would be a classy idea. You can buy your products directly from the manufacturer or the wholesalers available in your area, and you can sell those golf items to the customers interested in this hobby. You can decide your profit margin. Be aware of the competitors and try to keep your profit margin low to medium. Otherwise, you might lose your business.
Online Sales
If you are not able to afford an actual store right now, do not worry. You can still buy the golf equipment from the manufacturer or wholesalers, and you can sell the items online, on websites like eBay or Amazon. Again, you can decide the right price.
Or you can sell second-hand golf items, buy them at yard sales, or from people who have retired, and sell those on the same websites, or other online platforms that accept used items.
Create your Website
Forget about eBay or Amazon, nowadays having a website for your own business is a great deal. You can have your website where you can sell golf equipment. At first, start small, with basic stuff like golf clubs or golf balls. As mentioned earlier you can buy these directly from the manufacturers or the wholesalers. You can gradually start adding other equipment if everything goes well. Know how to create your own website from Fitsmallbusiness.
Golf Instructor
You can be a golf instructor, and start sharing your knowledge with other golf enthusiasts. Give them private lessons at your place, if you have space, or visit their home if they are more comfortable that way. Either way, you will make some money, make some friends and get to know people in your neighborhood. But make sure you improve yourself constantly if you want to be a good teacher.
Golf Trainer
A golf trainer shares his knowledge to people who are interested and host practical demonstrations to potential clients. If you can arrange a space for training at your home, then you can start teaching golf to beginners. If your client prefers to train at their place don’t hesitate to visit them. One good thing about this is that you can make your schedule. Being a golf trainer can be a side hustle, and you do not have to leave your job unless you are good at it and want to make golf training your full-time commitment. This YouTube video is all about becoming a golf trainer.
Golf School
A golf school can be a great idea if you have good teaching qualities, have researched the available market and have a good marketing strategy. You can open a school and recruit students online and start teaching immediately!
E-Book
You can write an EBook for golfers who plan to improve their gameplay. Keep it simple and easy to understand for everybody. Writing an ebook and publishing it online is much easier than a paper printed book. The golfers who cannot afford to visit a golf trainer will be the main clientele for your book, and you can make good money from it.
Online Videos:
If you are not that much willing to communicate or visit others personally, or you are an introvert, here is another small golf business idea for you. Online golf videos are the answer to your problems. You can make short video clips about the common mistakes of playing golf, or game tactics and you can post these videos online where the people pay per view. If your videos go viral, you will get more viewers, and so you can earn money in no time.
Constructing a Golf Course:
If you have the capital and you are into construction, you can start by building golf courses. But be careful, a golf course requires huge maintenance. You can get in touch with other professional golf courses and asking them about their maintenance services.
Backyard Putting Green:
Putting green is a great concept nowadays. Many golfers do not wish to visit the golf course and spend money on transportation, so here is an innovative idea for those people. You can help them install putting green in their backyard. You can also help them maintain the putting green, and you can make a regular income from the maintenance service.
Sports Recruitment Agency:
To have a successful sports recruitment agency you need to enroll yourself with the golf clubs and provide them with young talents. The clubs would take responsibility for helping them become master golfers. This type of agency is a new golf business idea which can make you smile with pride when you take a look at your bank account.
Advertising Agency
Every business needs promotion, be it a glow-sign board or leaflets or any other marketing strategy. You need to focus on this part – advertising is an essential factor for business owners. So you can start your advertising agency. There are many possibilities in a golf-related market; you can begin advertising about the golf clubs, the golf management companies, or the manufacturers making golf equipment. You can start with a small amount of money and you can start this business from your own home. Also, you can choose how to advertise your products and you can select offline or online marketing strategies (or both).
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Promotion Ideas:
If you do not have the capital to open your advertising agency, but you do have great promotion ideas and you think you can sell anything, you can start selling those ideas to an advertising agency and get paid for it. Many advertising agencies search for talents who have unique promotion ideas; you can be a freelancer and earn money from the comfort of your own home. You can help them with your unique golf course promotion ideas.
Be a Professional Personality Manager
All professional golfers hire a manager, who can take responsibilities off their hands both off and on the field. You can help them by managing their schedule, the advertisement campaign deals, and other work-related affairs. If you are good at personality management, then you can choose this option to shine.
Laundry Service
Another great idea is to open your laundry service and get in contact with the golf clubs or golf courses. As we all know the golfers do not wash their clothes, so what these clubs do is they hire a laundry service and send all those clothes to get cleaned. It is a huge money-making business idea; if you can do well, you will get business deals from other clubs as well.
Golf Kids Club
A golf kids club is another smart idea for entrepreneurs. You can contact schools, or directly the parents to offer them the chance to enroll their kids to your golf club. You need to have a license to start this kind of business. But you can do what you love, guide the kids, and make a profit from it. It would help if you organized as many fun events as you can to make the kids understand the wonder of golf as easy as possible.
Manufacturing Golf Equipments
If you can think big, you can do big. You can earn money from manufacturing golf equipment. At first, you can start with the basic things like the club or even the ball. You will need to attract potential wholesalers or retailers to help you grow your business. If you can put your hard work and your prime focus into this you might even get a contract from a major golf event.
Selling Tickets
You can start a ticket selling agency and sell tickets for golf events or other sports matches. These types of agencies are commission-based, and what you will earn is entirely determined by the number of tickets you can sell.
Putt-putt Golf Course
Though putt-putt is a miniature version, it still has the main features of the parent game, which is the main reason it attracts classy and rich people. If you can open a putt-putt golf course, you might get rich in no time.
Golf Blogger
Think you know golf by heart? Your knowledge of golf can defeat any regular average fan? Start a blog about it. Blogging is a fun way to make cash. It may take some time to get more viewers, but you can always act as a freelancer, and start writing content for the sports sites.
Photography
Are you passionate about photography? Do you have a camera with all the latest features? Then you can go to sports photography. Register to any event or any major golf tournament, take some awesome pictures and sell them to the sports magazines. If your photos are of good quality, you can get paid more than you can imagine.
Golf course for sale
Building your golf course would take some time and effort. So instead you can search for any old golf course that is up for sale, purchase it and bring it to the 21st century. The primary way to attract more clients to your golf course is by organizing frequent tournaments. If you get in touch with companies who sponsor this type of matches you can earn a significant amount of money.
Catering service
Another potential business idea is the food business – always a successful one. If you are into catering or you are planning to start a catering business, you can contact the golf resorts and the golf events, and offer to pack lunchboxes or snack boxes for them. All you need to check is that your food is tasty enough and proper hygiene is maintained while preparing it. You will earn great money in this sector.
Cleaning and Repairing Service
You can opt for this idea as well. Golf clubs are needed to be adequately cleaned and properly maintained. You can offer repair services for golf clubs, but for this type of business you need to keep in touch with the golf resorts, so you will be easy to reach if somebody needs your services.
Sports Bar
Many people love to watch a sport in a sports bar as the entire crowd there will enjoy the event, and everybody enjoys a lively atmosphere. You can open a sports bar, and do I need to tell you how fast you can earn?
Fitness Coach
Sportspersons require a fitness coach to be active. If you are into fitness and can guide someone to be fit as well, you can enroll yourself as a fitness coach. And you can be their trainer.
You will also look after their diet, but for that you will need to get a nutrition certificate (the online course is also available). The demand for a fitness coach is huge; you don’t have to worry about earning money.
Smartphone Application
If you are tech-savvy, or you are into software development, you can build a sports app. Sports app are famous these days – because of the stress and anxiety at the workplace, we often don’t have the time or energy to catch up with the live matches. So a sports app is a great way to see live updates of our favorite games. You can even develop a sports app where live golf events can be watched, or – why not – any other sport, I’m sure it will help you in gaining profit.
Massage Service
If you are a professional masseuse, you can approach local players for your massage services. If they are satisfied with your business, they might recommend you to others as well, and you can grow your business. If you don’t have the right qualifications for this but would like to learn, you can find a lot of online courses. Find out some valuable tips on how to become a massage therapist.
Memorabilia Shop
If you are a memorabilia collector, you can earn a great amount of money in no time. Let’s say you can provide a poster which is signed by Tiger Woods – you will make money. Many sellers on eBay sell memorabilia, you need to keep track, verify their authenticity and buy those before anyone else does. Then you can decide your profit margin, and make money selling them.
So these are all the ideas that I could think of; but, as I said earlier, before investing in a business you need to do your research, and of course, you need to be in good terms with your clients. If you can maintain a good reputation, success will kiss your feet.
