Clubs for hireInc., a golf club rental service for traveling golfers, announced that it served nearly 40,000 sets of clubs to repeat customers and members in the past year, as the company experiences a massive rebound from the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. After significant investments in its personnel, equipment and vehicle fleet, the company is well positioned for further growth.
The company caters to golfers traveling to 17 locations in Europe, Asia and South Africa, allowing them to rent golf clubs at their destination at affordable rates of €40 to €80 per week, rather than having their clubs travel from their own. Origin or rent the most expensive clubs in the resort.
Customers can book their golf club rentals through Clubs to Hire website At least 24 hours prior to arrival, and company staff can meet them at the airport or drop off the clubs to their hotel. Customers can also visit Hire Store clubs at Faro Airport in Portugal, where they can pick up equipment on the spot. Clubs to Hire offers a wide variety of golf equipment from top manufacturers in nearly every configuration on the market, also allowing golfers to try out new equipment or brands.
According to Tony Judge, founder and CEO of Clubs to Hire, the company provides a more convenient and affordable way for travelers to play golf abroad, as airlines charge increasingly higher prices for heavy, oversized golf flights. He says many Clubs to Hire customers are golfers whose bags never arrived, especially amid frequent incidents of lost baggage or flight delays in the post-pandemic period.
Founded by Judge in 2010, Clubs to Hire opened its first location at Faro Airport, the gateway to Portugal’s main tourist hub in the Algarve. Over the following years, it gradually expanded to other resort destinations in southern Europe, with most of its clients traveling from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands. Like all travel and tourism businesses, Clubs to Hire has been hit hard by the COVID-19-induced lockdown in 2020.
Once air travel restrictions eased in 2022, Judge invested nearly €1 million in Clubs to Hire, expanding its product inventory with top golf brands, bringing on more staff, and purchasing additional delivery vehicles. This has enhanced Clubs to Hire’s ability to serve the rapidly growing number of customers resuming their golfing trips.
“We have made a significant capital investment in the company to meet the growing demand of golfers as travel picks up again. It is estimated that around 2,000,000 golfers head to the most important golf destinations in the Mediterranean each year, which shows the potential This puts us in an excellent position for growth, as we look to expand our services to more new locations Clubs to Hire aims to make more golfers realize that they don’t need to go through the hassle of flying their clubs overseas and risking loss or damage to them, allowing Let them focus on enjoying their games and the rest of their vacation,” Judge says