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Below, we share golf industry insights, best practices and celebrate our award-winning KemperSports properties.

Forest Creek Golf Club Earns Three National Awards

January 14, 2021
Forest Creek, Round Rock, Texas,

Golf Range Association of America Recognizes Forest Creek Golf Club Round Rock, Texas, January 14th, 2021 – After an unbelievable golf season in 2020, the Golf Range Association of America has selected Forest Creek for three distinguished awards: Top 50 Public Range Facility, Top Range Renovation, and Jeff Lyle, PGA…

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KemperSports Adds Senior Marketer, Hospitality Veteran to Leadership Team

January 7, 2021
Kristine Rose

NORTHBROOK, Illinois, January 7, 2021 – KemperSports is pleased to welcome Kristine Rose as the company’s new senior vice president of marketing. In this role, Kristine will lead KemperSports’ marketing strategy in support of the company’s more than 130 properties as well as its corporate marketing, branding and loyalty initiatives.…

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KemperSports Begins the New Year Leading Full Resort Operations at Streamsong Resort

January 6, 2021
KemperSports has officially assumed management of all resort operations at Streamsong Resort,

NORTHBROOK, Illinois, January 6, 2021 – KemperSports has officially assumed management of all resort operations at Streamsong Resort, the extraordinary Central Florida destination. KemperSports has led golf operations since the opening of Streamsong Red and Streamsong Blue in 2012. “This is a very exciting new chapter in the evolution of…

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Teaching kids and leading with excellence

January 5, 2021
Top 50 Kids Coach Awards

KemperSports staffers Brittany Ferrante, assistant golf professional at The Village Club of Sands Point in Sands Point, New York, and Emily Burns, youth links golf professional at Cantigny Golf in Wheaton, Illinois, on their recent accolades from the U.S. Kids Golf Foundation! Brittany was named a 2020 Top 50 Kids…

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Relationships in the golf business are key to success

December 24, 2020
Vernon Hills Golf Course

KemperSports has always valued relationships. Relationships is one six core values at KemperSports. Integrity, service, financial discipline, creativity and loyalty make up our five additional values. Our core values are key elements to our success as a management company.  Our first client, Vernon Hills Golf Course, is still a client!…

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Erica Espe Promoted to Regional Sales and Marketing Director of KemperSports

December 15, 2020
Erica Espe Promoted to Regional Sales and Marketing Director of KemperSports

NORTHBROOK, Illinois, December 15, 2020 – KemperSports is proud to announce the promotion of Erica Espe to regional sales and marketing director. In this role, Espe will oversee the development and execution of sales and marketing strategies for multiple properties on the east coast within the KemperSports portfolio. Espe has…

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Digital marketing trends for 2021 in golf course management

December 14, 2020
Marketing trends in golf 2021

KemperSports marketing leaders highlight marketing trends in golf for 2021 Ed Jackman, who has worked for KemperSports for nearly a decade with experience at both the property and regional level and supports clients like Heron Glen Golf Course and Galloping Hill Golf Course. In 2021, Ed would like to create…

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KemperSports’ Tom Colceri Elected to California Golf Course Owners Association Board

December 11, 2020
California Golf Course Owners Association

NORTHBROOK, Illinois, December 10, 2020 – KemperSports is proud to announce that Tom Colceri, executive director of business development for the company’s west region, has been elected to the California Golf Course Owners Association (CGCOA) Board. “The Board of Directors of the California Golf Course Owners Association and I are…

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Sara Kearney Joins KemperSports as Vice President of Hospitality and Strategic Initiatives

November 30, 2020
Sara Kearney

NORTHBROOK, Illinois, November 30, 2020 – KemperSports is pleased to welcome hospitality industry veteran Sara Kearney as vice president of hospitality and strategic initiatives. In this role, Sara will support KemperSports’ expansion of its relationship with Streamsong Resort to assume management of all resort operations for the award-winning, Central Florida…

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LINKS Magazine Names Nine KemperSports-Managed Courses to List of Best You Can Play by Big Name Architects

November 24, 2020
LINKS Magazine Names Nine KemperSports-Managed Courses to List of Best You Can Play

NORTHBROOK, Illinois, November 24, 2020 – Nine KemperSports-managed courses rate among the personal bests from leading golf architects that anyone can play, according to a new ranking by LINKS Magazine. The round-up evaluates courses designed by 20 leading architects dating from the game’s earliest days in the United States until…

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