Bookstore

One of the main goals of the EGCOA is spreading and sharing knowledge. The EGCOA Bookstore provides support to help golf course owners improve their business. If your golf club needs a marketing plan, acquire members, retain members, increase visitor business or to understand marketing techniques such as how to effectively use e-marketing, then the infomation in our manuals and publications should provide very useful guidance.

To order a publication or manual, simply send an e-mail. You can also call +31 (0)20 330 6103. Please note: all mentioned prices are excluding porto costs and 19% Dutch VAT.

Laurence Pithie - Maintenance Manual This manual consists of 28 different sections and covers virtually all aspects of setting up a maintenance system for managing your golf course....read more.
Laurence Pithie - Seasonal Requirements for Golf Course Management An excellent reference book detailing the key maintenance tasks required for each of the four seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter) carried out on a golf course....read more.
Laurence Pithie - Managing Golf Courses More Effectively Laurence Pithie has served the greenkeeping industry for 38 years. He has recently completed an entire Golf Course operational manual, to offer all clubs within Europe a basic reference manual for managing a golf course...read more.
EGCOA Manual - Pace of Play Surveys have shown that golfers rank pace of play among the very top features they look for when choosing a course to play. There is a high correlation between a player's perception of value and pace of play during the round...read more.
EGCOA Manual - 51 Ways to increase customer retention Industry analysts claim that the number of rounds currently available to the golfing enthusiast now exceeds demand.This manual gives you the tools and techniques required to achieve principles and practices of loyalty marketing...read more.
EGCOA Manual - Internet marketing: your course online We believe that every member course can use the Internet to its advantage. Your efforts online can directly support your business goals and create tremendous value. So we created a simple guide to help you...read more.
EGCOA Manual - 51 Ways to a more profitable operation With the effects of an oversupplied golf market lingering for the foreseeable future, course operators are faced with many challenges and opportunities. The resulting effects have caused course operators across the country to cut prices...read more.
EGCOA Manual - Guide to a more Profitable Food and Beverage Operation Each club has distinctive challenges, but there are common threads that identify all the f&b operations. This manual can best be described as a collection of primers and notes based on findings at over 100 golf establishments...read more.