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The business of golf + building the largest golf community w/ Travis Schoen, Founder of NW Golf Guys

I stood up in front of a room of a bunch of golf association executives and was asked, "what do you do differently?". Golf is very much a "this is how it's always been done" sport. And we punched, "this is always how it's been done in the face".

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  • How Travis moved from scoring free golf to starting a golf league and growing its member base to more than 7,000 members.
  • How the game of golf has evolved over the past 20 years, and how NW Golf Guys thinks about their target demographic and approach to member acquisition
  • What goes into putting on a great golf tournament, the greatest golf movie of all time

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Travis Schoen

Founder of NW Golf Guys

Travis Schoen is the Founder and President of NW Golf Guys, the largest independent golf league with more than 7,000 members throughout the Pacific Northwest.

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