Golf equipment to Rent, a golf membership rental service for travelling golfers, introduced that it has served virtually 40,000 units of golf equipment to repeat purchasers and members prior to now yr, because the enterprise sees great bounce again from the disruption attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following important funding in its workers, tools, and car fleet, the corporate is in an excellent place for additional development.
The corporate gives its providers to golfers travelling to 17 places in Europe, Asia, and South Africa, permitting them to hire golf golf equipment at their vacation spot for inexpensive charges of €40 to €80 per week, as an alternative of flying of their golf equipment from their level of origin or renting costlier golf equipment on the resort.
Clients can guide their golf membership leases by way of the Golf equipment to Rent web site not less than 24 hours earlier than arrival, and the corporate’s workers can meet them on the airport or ship the golf equipment to their lodge. Clients can even go to Golf equipment to Rent’s store at Faro Airport in Portugal, the place they will decide up the tools on the spot. Golf equipment to Rent gives an intensive number of golf tools from high producers in virtually each configuration available on the market, which additionally permits golfers to check out new tools or manufacturers.
In keeping with Tony Choose, founder and CEO of Golf equipment to Rent, the corporate gives a extra inexpensive and handy manner for travellers to play golf abroad, as airways are charging more and more greater charges to fly heavy and outsized golf baggage. He says a lot of Golf equipment to Rent’s clients are golfers whose baggage haven’t arrived, particularly amid extra frequent incidents of lacking baggage or flight delays within the post-pandemic interval.
Golf equipment to Rent was established by Choose in 2010, opening its first location at Faro Airport, the gateway to Portugal’s main vacationer hub within the Algarve. Over the next years, it progressively expanded into different resort locations in Southern Europe, with most of its clients flying in from Eire, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. Like all journey and tourism companies, Golf equipment to Rent was severely affected by the shutdowns attributable to COVID-19 in 2020.
As soon as air journey restrictions have been relaxed in 2022, Choose invested virtually €1 million into Golf equipment to Rent, increasing its product stock with the highest {golfing} manufacturers, bringing in additional workers, and buying extra supply automobiles. This strengthened Golf equipment to Rent’s functionality to serve the fast-growing variety of clients resuming their {golfing} journeys.
“We’ve made a considerable capital funding within the firm to satisfy growing demand from golfers as journey picked up once more. It’s estimated that round 2,000,000 golfers head to the Mediterranean’s hottest golf locations every year, which reveals the great potential of the market. This places us in a wonderful place for development, and we’re looking for to broaden our providers to extra new places. Golf equipment to Rent goals to make extra golfers realise that they don’t must undergo the effort of flying their golf equipment abroad and threat them getting misplaced or broken, permitting them to deal with having fun with their video games and the remainder of their vacation,” Choose says