News UpdatesCarr Golf TravelNovember 2011 Major Wins Drive Golf Tourism November 2011 Carr Golf Travel,Ireland's recently launched its new internet venture www.onlinegolftravel.com. The venture has seen an investment in excess of €200,000 which includes support from Enterprise Ireland and Failte Ireland. The site offers a one stop shop for golfers wanting to plan, price and book golf holidays directly online, in different destinations. Golfers can not only view tee times and hotel inventory but book them directly at the most competitive rates, with immediate confirmation, day or night. The site is powered by Golf Channel Solutions' GolfNow technology along with a number of aggregators to provide a selection of over 3,500 golf courses and 10,000 hotels. The site also enables customers to book car hire, flights, travel insurance and research the details of the trip, benefiting from 20 years of experience from one of the world's top golf travel companies, Carr Golf Travel. The company has launched with three destinations - Ireland, USA and more recently Scotland, but intends to expand the destinations to England, Spain and Portugal in 2012. The site is managed from Carr Golf's Dublin HQ by John Maher who joined the company in late 2009 where he was head of online marketing at Boyle Sports and previously O2 UK. "Given the size of the golf travel market globally and the number of golf holidays planned and transacted online, Online Golf Travel is ideally positioned to be a market leader”. For further information contact John Maher at jmaher@carrgolf.com or on +353 1 822 6662 August 2011 Martin & Daniel Connolly from the Olympic Club in San Francisco win the 22nd World Invitational Father & Son Golf Tournament at Waterville. The full scoreboard and final results can be found here July 2011 Kieran & Orla Walshe from Doonbeg Golf Club win the 4th Annual World Invitational Father & Daughter Golf Tournament. March 2011Carr Golf Services launches GolfDublin.com platform for its clubs under management Carr Golf Services recently launched a dedicated site for the 9 golf courses currently under management. www.golfdublin.com offers the best prices available, the ability to book realtime, as well as weather, directions and information on courses throughout Dublin. "We are excited about the opportunities this offers both our clients and the course customers. The new portal is powered by the Golf Channel technology and allows us to employ state of the art yield management and sales techniques" according to Ed Pettit, CEO of the Carr Golf Services division. February 2011Carr Golf Travel launches travel partnership with US Golf Channel Carr Golf Travel and the Golf Channel's New Media Ventures division have agreed a partnership to promote golf in Ireland to its US audience of 80 million homes. The deal involves Carr Golf extending the Golf Channels Golf Now platform in Europe. Michael Steele, who has been with carr Golf for several years, will head up the Irish Operation of GolfNow. January 2011Carr Golf appointed official Golf Operator for Notre Dame Navy Game Carr Golf Travel have been appointed the official Golf partner by Anthony Travel for the Notre Dame Navy Game at the Aviva Stadium on September 1st 2012. The International staging of this College Football game is expected to attract 10,000 visitors and up to 800 golfers. " We are delighted to be working with our friends at Anthony Travel on this event for Ireland" November 2010Carr Golf appointed official Golf Operator for the 2011 Solheim Cup at Killeen Castle Carr Golf Travel were selected to partner the Solheom Cup 2011 in Ireland and manage the Official Travel Packages for the Event. Solheim Cup Travel are offering programs to the September 2011 event as part of the official program. Carr Golf are delighted to be working with Killeen Castle, LET and Failte Ireland for Irelands first Hosting of the largest woments golf event in the world. For further details contact Mebh Murtagh at Mebh@carrgolf.com October 2010Carr Golf announces dates for 2011 events. The dates for the 2011 season have been set for the major events on the Carr Golf Calender. The 22nd Father & Son will be held from 10th to 14th August 2011. The 4th Annual Father & Daughter golf tournament will be held from 11 to 14 July, 2011 and the Celtic Couples Challenge will be held from 25th to 29th September 2011 at Adare Manor. September 2010Fran Koerner and Chris Ownes (US win Inaugural Couples Event from Bruce and Barkara Baker from SF Golf Club (US). Both were tied on 108 points. 24 teams from India, US, Canada, Uk & Ireland competed see Celtic Couples for more details. August 201021/08 Desmonds win 21st World Invitational Father & Son Tournament
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