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Golf
New golf tour offering cash prizes despite USGA warning
April 25, 2013
Anthony SchoettleThe Hoosier Tour will give high-handicappers the chance to compete for prize purses at top courses across the Indianapolis
area. But participants could become ineligible for sanctioned events.
MoreGolf business heats up thanks to 2012 drought
March 30, 2013
Anthony SchoettlePositives can be hard to find in a record-breaking drought. However, for most of the roughly 430 golf courses in Indiana,
last summer’s scorcher was actually good for business.
MoreWestfield golf pro to be inducted into PGA Hall of Fame
February 23, 2013
Don "Chip" Essig IV was the 2011 recipient of the PGA Golf Professional of the Year award.
MoreFace-lift nearly complete at Eagle Creek golf courses
December 7, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinEagle Creek Golf Club received a long-awaited face-lift this year under a contract that will rescue the city from most of
its expenses stemming from the previous operator’s loan default.
MorePGA's top players face fierce finishing hole at Crooked Stick
September 6, 2012
Mason King
We'll be seeing a lot of water-bounded, bunker-laden Hole No. 18 as pro golf's
best players compete at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel through Sunday. Legendary course designer Pete Dye describes what
he had in mind.
Golf courses scramble to weather lack of rain
July 14, 2012
Anthony Schoettle
PGA officials are keeping their eyes on Carmel's Crooked Stick as
the BMW Championship approaches. And groundskeepers are using some high-tech tactics to avoid the withering effects of drought.
BENNER: Crooked Stick may be too small for today's pro golfers
June 9, 2012
Bill BennerEven a visionary like Pete Dye couldn’t see a half-century into the future.
MorePGA exec outlines course for golf resurgence
March 10, 2012
Sam StallDeveloping new players should be top priority if sport wants to emerge from long downturn, official says
MoreCrooked Stick buoyed by strong early sales for BMW event
March 3, 2012
Anthony SchoettleTicket and sponsorship sales for the BMW Championship—to be held Sept. 3-9 at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel—are
well under par. In golf parlance, that means they’re exceeding expectations—big time.
MoreCrooked Stick golf pro hits links every day, rain or shine
August 20, 2011
Maria LaMagna
Crooked Stick Golf Club pro Patrick White works 90 or more hours a week
and loves every minute of it.
Firm makes splash retrieving golf balls
August 13, 2011
Sam StallMark Schmitt, president of Rawhide Golf Ball Co., runs a business that recovers dimpled pills from golf course water hazards,
buffs them up, and resells them. (With photo gallery)
MoreIndiana tourism effort honors famed course designer Dye
July 28, 2011
Scott OlsonThe Pete Dye Golf Trail includes seven public courses chosen by Dye: Brickyard Crossing, The Fort Golf Resort, Maple Creek
Golf & Country Club, Plum Creek Golf Club, Mystic Hills Golf Club, Kampen Course and the Pete Dye Course at French Lick.
MoreGolf course manager suing DuPont over herbicide
July 19, 2011
Scott OlsonR.N. Thompson, which operates several local courses, claims the company's Imprelis herbicide caused "catastrophic tree loss."
R.N. Thompson has joined a Pennsylvania resident in filing the class-action suit.
MoreBuyer snaps up 175-acre Golf Club of Indiana
July 12, 2011
Cory SchoutenAn investment group has acquired the Golf Club of Indiana in southern Boone County near Zionsville and is planning improvements
to the 175-acre property.
MoreGreenwood golf course reorganizing under bankruptcy
June 17, 2011
Scott OlsonRenamed Dye's Walk Country Club in 2007, the private golf course's original nine holes were the first designed by legendary
course architect Pete Dye. The Greenwood course has fallen on financial hard times and is hoping to emerge under new ownership.
MoreCity names new golf manager for Eagle Creek
March 25, 2011
Scott OlsonGolf club's former operator defaulted on loan agreement, forcing city officials to make $222,724 in payments and search for
another contractor to manage it.
MoreCity terminating contract of Eagle Creek golf manager
March 14, 2011
Scott OlsonJerry Hayslett, who has managed the golf club on West 56th Street since 1999, will no longer be the operator, effective April
1, after he defaulted on a $3.5 million loan balance, city officials said.
MoreDo golf and business still mix?
March 12, 2011
Anthony SchoettleCourses see shrinking revenue from companies, but many dealmakers still hit the links
MoreLanguage Training Center expands relationship with LPGA
February 23, 2011
J.K. WallThe Indianapolis-based Language Training Center is now translating the letters of the professional golf association’s
commissioner into multiple languages and providing live interpretation at association meetings.
MoreLanguage Training Center finds lucrative niche in sports
December 11, 2010
Anthony SchoettleWomen's golf tour, other sports properties turn to local firm for language, cultural skills
MoreMainGate signs merchandising deal with U.S. Golf Association
October 23, 2010
IBJ StaffThe local firm will operate the USGA's catalog and online merchandise programs.
MoreNoblesville's Sagamore golf club emerges from the rough
August 7, 2010
Anthony SchoettleThe once ballyhooed Jack Nicklaus-designed course near State Road 37 and 166th Street was perilously near bankruptcy just
a year ago.
MoreBENNER: Still pulling for Tiger in spite of his transgressions
July 24, 2010
Bill BennerLet me be the last (quasi) sports journalist in America to weigh in on Tiger Woods.
MorePrairie View co-founder joins Essig Golf as vice president
January 2, 2010
IBJ StaffBrian Nicholoff’s focus will be on bringing new clients and business ventures to Essig, which manages four central Indiana
golf courses.
MoreIndianapolis Motor Speedway puts golf course under microscope
December 19, 2009
IBJ StaffChanges are coming to the Brickyard Crossing Golf Resort, but the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which owns the facility,
has no intention of selling it.
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These quaint,obsessed musings by the stalkers are certainly entertaining, but I'm trying to figure out what, if anything, all the yelping below has to do with Zak Brown.
It's evident that Moffett was pushing the right buttons and corporate America is now trying to squash him. He just wanted to withdraw the free pilot services provided to the company by the pilots to try and put some pressure on a company that has not been interested in negotiating a contract in over 5 years. The company does not provide a contract because not having one has saved them a bundle of money. Shame on any Republic pilots not standing behind their union leader just because things are getting tough, can you not see such strategic moves by the company as putting the last union president in a corporate position and into THEIR pocket. Do you really believe the last union president is so appalled at the attempts by Moffett, do you not remember his oppositions to the company? We stood behind him. It has been proven over and over again for thousands of years without fail, a man cannot serve two masters. Anyone that believes people vote contrary to their paycheck and livelihood deserve to be taken advantage of, the recent statements by the former union president are laughable as he denounces the current union president from his new corporate position. Have you ever seen a drafted sports player score points for his previous team, it cannot be done, he is not on the pilots side anymore, he gets his money a different way now than you and I do, and he should not be allowed to remain on the seniority list. A drafted player brings strength, credibility, tactical knowledge, and a strategic advantage to his NEW team, he would not be drafted or paid were it otherwise. We are all forced to choose only one side to play for and support, not doing so has many references in life such as insider trading and shaving points, all illegal for good reason. This basic fact is why corporate moguls, scientist, and engineers all sign non-discloser agreements and non-compete clauses, as protection in case they are lured into switching sides as our former union president has done. No NFL coach ever drafted a player so that both teams could benefit and better understand each other, they are recruited to win the game against that former team, period. Likewise the company does not recruit the former union president by accident or mutual understanding, its strategy. Don't confuse playing the game with good sportsman-like conduct in support of common business and prosperity goals, with the requirement to only play for one side. Good men we all love and favor fall subject to this manipulation, often without their knowledge, and it is not a betrayal of their friendship to oppose them when they switch sides. If we did not love and trust them, they would not have been chosen and lured to the other side in the first place. The deception by the drafted player is not made at a conscious level, it's just human nature and it's all about money and power which corrupts our ability to be objective and loyal to two masters. This is why our court system created the defense attorney, and why our military created counter intelligence. Its strategy and its propaganda, and it works, and that's why the "powers to be" manipulate the chess pieces by sometimes changing their colors. Some players know they are being manipulated when their color is changed, but it brings them more money and power so they do not care. The rest have good intentions but do not even realize they are being manipulated. This tactic is also known by another name, Divide and Conquer. In battle sending an imperfect message with an imperfect team is obviously not ideal, but it's still being sent by YOUR team, your union leader, a leader that has common goals and common rewards with you, they are the best, because we have elected them to do a job for us. If you are not backing Moffett but believing the spin by those that have recently switched sides, you are taking food out of your own mouth. Showing unity and backing an imperfect situation still results in taking just as much ground, it's about unity and bargaining power. It's not necessary to wait around for that perfect attack because it will never come, the company will spin and attempt to destroy anyone that gets in their way. Ultimately it's not about any specific attack anyway, ASAP or whatever it makes no difference, it is and always has been only about power. If this company cared about safety it would not build pairings with 8 hour overnights, come on, are you that naive? Besides, do you really think Hoffa cares, no, he got a call from corporate America and was squeezed into denouncing Moffett. If he didn't they would spin the safety card against him and the Teamsters National with implication for truckers, future contracts, insurance rates etc...saying something like the Teamsters use safety as a bargaining chip, blah blah blah... Do you really think any pilot is going to do something unsafe for the contract, absolutely not, the only ones threatening safety here is the company with reduced rest, fatigue, and poverty. Do you not find it odd that Hoffa and the Teamsters are opposing a Teamster president publicly? Would the Teamsters National not normally support and work with one of their own? Why did they not sit down and help him strategize, correct any mistakes, and charge ahead? Would the Teamsters National not normally support and leverage a contract for all those pilots that have been paying Teamster dues, isn't that why we have all been paying Teamster dues in the first place? I sure haven't been paying dues so that the Teamsters National could come along and write this kind of an article undercutting our union leader and our unity. Whose side is the Teamsters National really on, it's obviously not the Republic pilots side.
No matter what Moffatt does the company is going to spin it like he is the terrorist and brainwash people like you into believing it, wake up, back your players that are trying to change things for you and your livelihood. Where has Hoffa been for the last 6 years, except collecting our dues. Seriously, do you really think an FO going for upgrade, signed off by a checkairman ready for the upgrade, who then fails, is not even capable of returning as a First Officer.
whoa!