Gather Global Podcast
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOn the Gather Global Podcast we talk to the golf industry professionals from around the world who are doing things differently.
Gather is open to any golf industry professional, anywhere in the world. We’ll connect anyone who wants to grow professionally. Creating access to leaders, insights and peers from inside and outside of golf.
Our podcast delivers insight, inspiration and innovation for anyone who works in the golf industry and wants a different perspective.
We’re building a community that disrupts, inspires and empowers the golf industry to create a new norm. We want to redefine how the golf industry shares knowledge. To stimulate the industry and challenge the status quo.
Our vision is for our members to be at the heart of the positive, vibrant, exciting golf industry that the game deserves.
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Episodes
#20 - Rocket Yard Sports & Trottie Golf: The Marketing Series Ep. 2
April 04, 2024 21:57 - 1 hour - 53.6 MB“Content creators and influencers have essentially become new media – new points of attention for brands that are more effective than broadcast.” (Daryl Evans, Rocket Yard Sports) In the second of our three-part series with Rocket Yard Sports, we welcome back Daryl Evans, joined by special guest Trottie Golf. We delve deeper into the realm of golf marketing; exploring the impact of creator and influencer marketing on golf. With over 11.8M views on YouTube, Trottie speaks with deep experi...
#19 - Rocket Yard Sports: The Marketing Series Ep. 1
March 14, 2024 22:06 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBWhere is golf marketing heading? In our latest podcast, we spoke with Daryl Evans, Founder of Gather Collective Member Rocket Yard Sports. Daryl is an expert in positioning brands within sports and leveraging sports sponsorship to facilitate business growth. In this first episode of a three-part series, we delve into the trajectory of golf marketing across three distinct phases: The Past: How was golf communicated and marketed historically? The Pandemic Years: How did the pandemic reshap...
#18 - Old Tom Ventures: The Startup Series Ep. 1
February 15, 2024 16:00 - 57 minutes - 53 MBIn the first of a three-part video podcast series with Gather Collective Member Old Tom Ventures, we look at an emerging trend within the golf industry – a rise in startups. Many founders and a number of investors have joined the Gather community, leading to interesting conversations about the investment opportunities that golf offers. Previously, golf was seen as a trophy asset in the portfolio of many investors, rather than a commercial opportunity. Now, given the landscape of golf, we a...
#17 - Sebastien Audoux: How underleveraged actually is golf?
December 18, 2023 17:03 - 1 hour - 43 MBHow underleveraged actually is golf? There’s noise in men’s professional golf right now. And there’s plenty of commentary on whether this is a positive look for our sport, or whether it is damaging. What about if you take a very positive, but analytical lens on where this current period of flux might lead us? For both men’s and women’s professional golf, and our wider industry. Our guest this episode is someone who is a joy to listen to in this regard. Well respected, hugely experienced ...
#16 - What Should Golf Really Be Talking About?
October 06, 2023 14:12 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBGolf is a large global industry. With that comes noise. Headlines and statistics give short-term industry diagnoses. What these reports miss is a critical analysis of what the headlines or statistics mean for you and your business. At Gather, we believe golf industry professionals want to cut through this noise and identify what information is specific to their business. So, this week we recorded a 28 minute podcast that discussed how to separate the chaff from the wheat when it comes to...
#15 - Jojo Regan & Nicole Wheatley: Collaborations, brand building, NFTs in golf
April 15, 2022 07:13 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBA massive thank you to those of you that joined us for our recent Mentor Room: LIVE! as we welcomed Nicole Wheatley and Jojo Regan, two Gather members who are at the forefront of brand positioning. Both are passionately helping drive a new image for the game to new audiences. Listen out for key insights on: Investing in branding/marketing/PR - the key decisions and opportunities for more golf businesses to consider. How we can speak as an industry to the non-traditional golf audiences? ...
GATHER: What's Next? #2 with Dan Green
January 13, 2022 23:34 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MB“Golf needs to have the strength of will of character to look beyond the walls of its own self-worth.” Dan Green, Design Director at Zag. Are you in the mood for some Truth Bombs? Then this is the 15min audio for you. 1. What’s next for branding in golf? 2. Who does Dan seek inspiration from within branding in the sports world? 3. What’s Dan’s advice moving forward for golf brands to break through with Gen Z? 4. If anyone listening wanted to do an audit on their golf in...
#14 - Karen Lunn: What if golf, was just golf?
October 08, 2021 17:07 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBWhat if golf, was just golf? Not amateur and professional, with so many fragmented organisations. Not with organisations for men and women separately competing for the same commercial sponsors and media outlets? “We HAVE to look at golf differently now” This week, we are incredibly excited to share with you our first ever Women's British Open Champion as a Gather Guest, who has some fascinating insights to share from how Australia are challenging the previous norms. Transitioning from el...
GATHER: What’s Next? #1 with Amir Malik
August 27, 2021 15:01 - 24 minutes - 18.6 MBIn this episode we had the pleasure of speaking with Amir Malik. Amir founded The Muslim Golf Association (MGA) in the UK in 2020 which is the worlds first dedicated golfing platform that caters for the modern, professional, Muslim male & female golfer. Check out their website, but also connect with Amir. There could be great collaboration opportunities for you, but without doubt there will be inspiration and some fascinating insights that can help you, your golf club, organisation or busi...
#13 - Chris Hedderman: How the best disruption happens.
August 16, 2021 11:14 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBIf you are starting your first role, or you're a senior leader in golf, there’s critical insights and learnings in this new episode. They come from someone who has gathered varied experiences and skills, put their hand up and asked for more help to learn and now see themselves in an influential role at a global brand at the age of 35. But still learning and staying humble. Chris Hedderman has worked as an Assistant Professional at a local municipal course, re-gripping clubs in minus tempera...
#12 - Sam Roach: Culture, fashion, music, influencers and OPPORTUNITY.
July 09, 2021 13:29 - 38 minutes - 87.6 MBMind. Blown. That was how we felt after our shortest Gather Global Podcast yet. The reason why? Possibly because we were speaking with an 'outsider' who by his own admission: "...has been stalking the golf industry for a while, from the outside..." Possibly because it was the biggest mirror we've had held up to our golf industry faces since Gather launched. This chat is not only about golf. It's about culture, fashion, influencers and OPPORTUNITY. If you want to ...
#11 - Andrew Brown: Partnership Working 2.0
June 04, 2021 09:42 - 49 minutes - 33 MBPARTNERSHIP WORKING 2.0 With vast experience working with partners globally spanning over 20 years, the approach to partnerships continues to evolve for Andy Brown. However, what's next for this space and will we see disruption? Here's some of the stuff we dig into in this chat, which offers lots of food for thought if you work with partners in your role or want to learn more in this area: Golf used to be a lot of handshakes, whereas now communication barriers have been broken down and b...
#10 - Kari Haug: Re-thinking our approach to short golf courses
April 16, 2021 12:05 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBOur chat with golf course architect Kari Haug really made us reflect on our own assumptions about short golf courses, their objectives, how they are assumed to be the solution to increasing women's and children's participation and crucially....why this might not always be the case! If you care about the growth of the game, or if you are a golf club or facility manager, you should find this to be a fascinating discussion with some questions to consider going forward in your career in the ind...
Gather Ripple #3: Fred Popp interviews Emma Taylor
April 01, 2021 22:21 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBYou know those times when you wish you could hear the chats between the industry leaders on topics that really matter? Gather now offers you that fly on the wall experience with our Gather Ripple Series. Fred Popp (Zag) and Emma Taylor (former Head of Marketing, Tottenham Hotspur) talk about creating environments and communities for sports fans. Emma’s amazing time at Tottenham Hotspur saw the club grow exponentially and recently culminated in the opening of a stunning, world-class sta...
#9 - Ray Roessel: Golf development can be commercial
March 12, 2021 07:45 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBGolf development is not commercially attractive...or is it? The phrase golf development conjures split emotions. On one hand we all share the passion to grow the game, but, on the other, we know the rewards will not likely be immediately monetary. It often takes a back seat, becoming a philanthropic afterthought, as the commercial model doesn't seem to stack up As we move forwards, golf development may become a casualty of the 'golf boom', as facilities understandably feel compelled to ma...
Gather Ripple #2: Phil Grice interviews Fred Popp
February 25, 2021 23:38 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBYou know those times when you wish you could hear the chats between the industry leaders on topics that really matter? Gather now offers you that fly on the wall experience with our Gather Ripple Series. In our second episode, Phil Grice (Independent Consultant) continues the ripple by interviewing international sports branding expert Fred Popp (Partner, ZAG). Fred has worked with a list of stellar clients in his career, including The Open, the NBA, Tottenham Hotspur and the FIFA World C...
Gather Ripple #1: Jeremy Slessor interviews Phil Grice
February 25, 2021 23:23 - 12 minutes - 4.48 MBYou know those times when you wish you could hear the chats between the industry leaders on topics that really matter? Well, we’re delighted to now offer you that fly on the wall experience as we launch the first in our Gather Ripple Series. Jeremy Slessor (Managing Director, European Golf Design) wanted to ask some direct, no nonsense questions to a leading expert in the world of club management. So we recorded his Gather Ripple chat with the experienced Phil Grice (Independent Consulta...
#8 - Andrew Rankin: "Who owns golf?"
February 12, 2021 11:37 - 39 minutes - 29.6 MBJoin us for this intellectual chat with Andrew who has had a foot in both camps of academia and the golf industry for many years. With a career and projects that span various areas of the golf industry, he’s uniquely positioned to delve into some questions we have been itching to ask. You know those ones that you feel should be raised, but nobody really knows where to start with them? Yeah….those ones. Open your mind and check this one out, we delved into: “Who owns golf?” and how does t...
#7 - Tim Neil: "Disrupt the hell out of it"
January 29, 2021 00:38 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBThis one is a bumper one folks! Packed full of insights, experiences and advice that many people are unlikely to have heard from the golf culture and the business of golf in the Far East. As seems to happen on every episode, we feel like we’re going back to school and just learning constantly. The key word for this episode is OPPORTUNITY and if you listen in, you will just hear an awful lot of it! Key takeaways include: The benefits of the culture-mixing in the Middle East golf and hos...
#6: Andrew Turner from Arccos Golf
January 14, 2021 19:58 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBStarting in banking, leaving to start up a real estate private equity development fund, training to become a golf professional, summers interning in the US and now currently the Vice President of Sales for Arccos Golf. It’s been a diverse journey, which sees Andrew now working at a really interesting case study of a successful start-up in golf. This episode was a little bit like going back to school for us…. We learned A LOT. Listen out for: Why is nobody tracking the biggest percentage...
#5: Gather Founders Reflect
December 23, 2020 07:29 - 28 minutes - 52.3 MBColin Bell, Adam Keable and Mike Hyde look back at the first two months of Gather. We report our top five learnings from our members, and some thoughts of our own on the journey we're on the journey we are on with you all, to try and build a better golf industry. We discuss: The geographical spread and vocational breadth of the Gather community The similarity of the challenges our members face, regardless of industry sector The 'positivity paradox' - social media echo chambers are painti...
#4 - Clare Queen & David Kearney: "Double down on your strengths""
December 04, 2020 09:42 - 42 minutes - 79.2 MBThe Gather Global Podcast aims to deliver genuine insight and offer you new perspectives on the golf industry, and this episode with Clare Queen and David Kearney goes above and beyond on both fronts. Clare is Head of Performance at Scottish Golf, and David is Performance Director at Irish Ladies Golfing Union. The conversation kicks off with an insight from David about the effect of the global pandemic on golf, which goes far beyond the typical commentary about golf 'enjoying a boom'. As ...
#3 - David Shepherd: "We can make decisions immediately"
November 20, 2020 09:37 - 59 minutes - 111 MBCurrently CEO at The Scandinavian, David Shepherd moved to Denmark in 2016, after eight years at Monte Rei and time at The Belfry. Perhaps most notably, also David holds the honour of being our first ever Gather member! So, we discussed why he joined the community, as well as looking at the industries that golf could learn from, and how he's crafted a career that's taken him to some of Europe's top venues. Look out for some key points: 4:15 David's biggest frustration about the golf indus...
#2 - Agustín Piza: "Is what you think you know, actually correct?”
November 05, 2020 22:38 - 58 minutes - 108 MBAgustín Piza is a man of the world. From Scottish academic roots to his international award-winning architecture practice, Agustín talked honestly about his journey to becoming one of the most influential people in the golf industry today. From unexpected friendships with UK music icons to designing family friendly golf 'playgrounds', Agustin discusses opening our thinking to help us grow as individuals, and to develop the game for the future. We loved our conversation with Agustin and he...
#1: "So, what are you going to do about it?"
October 20, 2020 18:00 - 44 minutes - 82.8 MBIn a searingly honest conversation, Gather co-founders Colin Bell, Mike Hyde & Adam Keable introduce Gather - a new global community for golf industry professionals. We discussed: Why the golf industry is broken, despite there being plenty of great people in the golf industry The glacial pace of change The easy solution to make the golf industry booming again Why do the Gather Values matter so much to us? What do we mean when we are talking about trying to be disruptive? Our biggest f...