The Scottish Golf Show
The Scottish Golf Show has been running for four years and is the first major consumer-led golf show of its kind ever in the ‘Home of Golf’.
Some of the biggest names in the golf industry have been involved with the three-day show since its inception in 2006. Major brands include Nike Golf, TaylorMade, Ping, Yonex, Cobra, MacGregor Golf and Callaway Golf.
As has been customary at previous shows, fans are given a first look at some of the hottest and most talked-about equipment in the golf industry long before it hits golf shops nationwide. Other legendary names in the equipment industry to showcase their new gear at the Scottish Golf Show include the world’s oldest golf equipment manufacturer, Ben Sayers, and the Bobby Jones Golf Company, featuring clubs built by Jessie Ortiz.
The show has its own driving bay area, American Golf discount warehouse, fashion show, featuring the latest on-course garments, and some of the very latest golf gadgets to hit the market.
As the show dipped its toe into the water with the Scottish golfing public it decided to set up shop at the Royal Highland Centre, near Edinburgh, at the beginning of the golf season in late March, 2006 – just in time for avid golf lover to pick up a bargain or two in time for the approaching new season.
Word of the previous years’ success spread far and wide and visitor numbers in 2007 were up by 35%, proof that the Scottish Golf Show was building momentum with both golfers and manufacturers alike.
After a fourth consecutive year of record turnouts and exceptional feedback from more than satisfied customers, the Scottish Golf Show was clearly fully established and had become the milestone which marked the beginning of the new season for all of Scotland’s keen players.
By 2009, The Royal Highland Centre simply could no longer contain a event which had experienced unprecedented growth and PSP Events were forced to cast their gaze to a less familiar but more expansive and extravagant stage at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow – a move they were only too happy to make. Trepidation among the PSP team preceded the 2009 show in its new setting – but they needn’t have worried, it proved to be the Scottish Golf Show’s most successful year to date.
With more space attracted more manufacturers and stallholders, and following them came a greater number of the golfing public than the golf show had ever seen. An unmitigated success was the message delivered to all on the completion of the 2009 season-opening event, with 2010 scheduled to be every bit, of not more, popular. |