After some reflection, we finally decided to give our portal a so-called "face-lift". Since 15.04.2008 golffriends.com appears in a new design. We have made the web site clearer and easier to use. The colours are now much lighter and the structure of the website is a lot clearer. Furthermore you will now find an overview of all benefits and services from golffriends.com on the home page. Of course...

With over 300 tournaments in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary the golffriends.com Trophy is one of the largest amateur tournament series in Europe. With the 2008 Trophy Card you can participate at most of these tournaments at a package price of € 39.50 or € 45.00 (except for Switzerland and a few other exceptions, where the reduction is still at least 30%). The package price includes:...

Not yet fully completed your profile? Then it is high time you did! This month we are offering a Callaway XXV Tourbag in silver / black with a value of € 459 as a prize for one lucky member who completes their profile by 31st March 2008. Fill out your profile now completely and win the Callaway XXV Tourbag - strictly limited edition. This offer will end on 31st March 2008! Complete your profil...

Do you know all of the benefits you get from golffriends.com membership?  Here are soe examples: Greenfee discounts: 10-20% on all teetimes at about 50 golf clubs. Special offers: discounts of up to 60%, depending on individual offers, on greenfees or packages with overnight accomodation or … Benefit programme: premium members profit from additional benefits, e.g. 20% off Sixt car ...

With the introduct of the first marketplace, our loyalty programme entered a new dimension.  We took this opportunity to change the name of the “points” to “tokens” and you will find correspondingly modified symbols on the portal on all the pages where you can earn  or spend tokens. As before you can collect these for many activities on golffriends.com.  The tokens can still b...

We shall soon be publishing our first marketplace for golf items and shortly afterwards the marketplace for “golf travel” will follow. You can offer any golf goods in our golf items marketplace (new or used) for other golffriends to buy. In the “golf travel” marketplace you can post your offers of golf vacatiions (individual offers, packages etc.) and also market them via golffriends.com. This ...

Starting now you can make real time teetie bookings at a further over 270 golf facilities in England via golffriends.com. The number of real time clubs is now over 320 and you can still book at all of the other approx. 6,000 clubs via online reuests. The greenfee discounts on offer also continue to increase all the time.  You get at least a 20% discount on every teetime reservation at more...

We are proud to announce that, starting today, we are able to present significant extensions on golffriends.com: The golffriends.com Community Area The administration of your own data has been completely revised and supplemented with numerous “community services”.  Take a look and see for yourself! You can now, for example: Look for other members (by name, given name, gend...

We have just put the new golffriends.com forum live online.  There you can exchange valuable experiences on every aspect of the sport of golf and get help on difficult questions.  There is one additional feature offered by our forum: entries with regard to a specific golf course can be referenced to you directly.  The advantage of this is that in addition to the extensive informat...

We recently conducted an extensive user survey.  Many thanks to the many users who returned the questionnaire! Some of the results were expected but there were also some surprises.  For example, over 80% of the users appreciated our teetime reservation service very much (“very important to me”).  We were surprised to see that about 70% of the users rated the upcoming “golf jokes” s...

Book your teetime now and profit from the selected clubs with a greenfee discount of up to 50%. Here you can find: All  of the clubs with greenfee discounts (D, A, CH, F) or special offers Further special offers Promotion until 12.08.07On all of the reservations made by 12.08.07 (for games throughout 2007) you will get an additional 80% discount on the booking fees (€1/100 points i...

In preparation for several new community services which will be introduced soon(e.g. forum, marketplace, etc.), we would be glad to see as any golf friends as possible uploading their photos.  You too? Everybody loves surfing through photo galleries and experience shows that most users post their photos if there are lots of others on the portal already.  We should like to start the ball...

golffriends.com, the European golf portal that portraits 6,300 European clubs and Golfsportmagazin.de, one of the major online German-language golf magazines, will cooperate in future. "We are glad to have found an attractive partner in golffriends.com" the publisher of Golfsportmagazin.de, Gregor Landwehr, commented.  From now onwards the users of golffriends.com benefit from the news that ...

We all know the feeling: standing on the course and missing a birdie… that’s no fun.  At least on the internet it could be a bit of fun, though, couldn’t it?  In addition to the topics golf TV and golf game, there is a new section starting now called “golf jokes”.  You are certain to know some too.  Post the funniest jokes and help to make the golf jokes section on golffri...

The update of the German golf courses has just been completed.  Now you have access to even more extensive information, thousands of photos, scorecards, hole descriptions and much more in the way of advantages.  There are also scorecard graphics for about ¾ of the German clubs.  These can be found on the “course“ page of each golf club. However hard we work it is not possible to ke...

Shortly the beta version of our “golf items market place” will be put online.  We would like to begin with as broad a selection of products as possible and are therefore looking for golf shops throughout the whole of Europe.  If you would like to post your offers free of charge and market your products via golffriends.com, just register here as a partner (choose the “shop partner” opti...

With great diligence and attention to detail we have just finished updating the data on all the Spanish golf clubs.  As far as possible the greenfee prices were also updated.  The scorecard graphic is available for 90% of the clubs and you will even find graphics of the holes/fairways and/or descriptions of the fairways.  The course graphics are available to all members.  For P...

Golden Fairway – the hottest internet golf game now at golffriends.com Thanks to an exclusive cooperation with MVP, an American manufacturer of massive online games, we can now offer you the maybe hottest online golf game for free downloading. We have viewed dozens of games, which makes it an even greater pleasure to be able to introduce Golden Fairway to you today – probably the best internet g...

If you would like to meet us from golffriends.com in person, there will be two great opportunities to do so in March 2007.  We shall be exhibiting at the golf shows in Paris and Cologne.  You can find us as follows:   Paris: 1st Salon du Golf 2007 www.expodience.com 17.03.2007-19.03.2007 hall 1, stand 38   Cologne: Rheingolf 2007 www.rheingolf.de 16.03.2007-18.03.200...

Today we should like to say a big “thank you” to our development team: Representative of the whole development team, we here express our gratitude to the team leaders of the golffriends.com developer team. Their wholehearted efforts and great flexibility have made a significant contribution to golffriends.com being able to become the largest pan-European golf portal within a very short time...

Earn an additional 1,000 points now by upgrading your membership. Upgrade your membership to a premium silver membership.  For an extra € 50 Euro/£29.90 per annum (+VAT where applicable) you will receive many additional services and advantages.  Promotion: From 31.01.07 until 11.02.07 we offer 2.000 points starting capital instead of the normal 1.000 points (value c. € 20 instead of ...

We are glad to inform you of the of our newly finalized cooperation agreement with the IGC International Golf Community (www.igc.de). Together with IGC we shall again bring a fresh breeze into the golf market.  This is based on the innovative services offered by both partners.  In IGC we have found a competent market player and the customers and users of both parties will be able to pr...

Promotion to invite your friends ! Invite your friends now! For every invitation you will earn 50 points, for every basic registration (free for your friend!) you will even earn 1000 points (value about 10 Euro /6.50 British Pounds). You can use your points for all services of golffriends.com and of course also to upgrade you membership. To invite your friends click here: Invite my friends. Att...

It is with great pleasure to announce that golffriends.com is now also available in Austria.   Engineer Christian Bairhuber is our new country manager in Austria and responsible for market development in Austria. With his appointment we are gaining an expert with high marketing and sales experience. Mr Bairhuber lives with his wife and two children south of Vienna and in his free time he e...

The first EGCOA Conference will be hosted in Amsterdam on November 23 - 25 2006. Goal of the 2006 conference is to bring together golf course Owners and other industry partners and create the opportunity to improve your business with new idea's. Learn from speakers and colleagues, network, make new friends and visit the city of Amsterdam. Grow the game & improve your business Learn from g...

Noch bis zum 12.10.2006 um Mitternacht läuft die Promotion "Laden Sie Ihre Freunde ein". Dazu können Sie ganz bequem das Einladungsmodul benutzen (Klicken Sie in Ihrem Benutzerkonto auf "Meine Freunde einladen") und profitieren dabei vom bis zum 10-fachen Punktegewinn. Konkret erhalten Sie: Verschicken einer Einladung: je 50 statt 5 Punkte (pro Einladung) Basis-Registration eines Ihrer eing...