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How great golf clubs stay great
Hear hear...is golf talk radio
the future of the internet?
Type the word “golf” into Google and you’ll get somewhere in the
region of 666,000,000 web sites to choose from, a statistic that
might make any budding entrepreneur wonder whether it’s a
smart idea to jump into such a deep pool.
But Sydney based golf writer Rod Morri has recently taken the
plunge with a web based project he hopes will find it’s own
niche. TalkinGolf (www.talkingolf.com) is a twice weekly podcast
featuring guests from every part of the golf industry and covers
everything from golf business to course architecture and
interesting web sites from around the world.
“Radio, and talk radio, is still an incredibly popular medium,” says
Morri.“There’s something very engaging about listening to people
who know what they’re talking about talking about what they
know.“But there’s not really a lot to cater specifically to the golfer
in the radio world. There’s millions of web sites and blogs and no
end of content but very little in