With a new fresh year starting and a lot of events planned already within Central & Eastern Europe, we can easily proclaim and wish everyone prosperous, progressive and happy 12 months ahead.

The Scottish golf industry showed encouraging signs of improvement during a buoyant 2011 according to a new study carried out by Golf Tourism Scotland . The results come from a straw poll of travel, hospitality and golf industry professionals who gave an upbeat account of business over the last 12 months.

GolfSwitch, the world's leader in online tee time technology and distribution has launched its new website www.golfswitch.com. A serious improvement of the previous site allows potential clients; golf resorts, golf courses, associations, tourist boards, tour operators, website operators etc to browse through the GolfSwitch solutions and find the one that suits their operation.

A total of almost 3,000 free lessons, many of them to school children in eight different countries, were provided by PGA professionals during 2011 under the European Tour’s scheme funded by the Ryder Cup European Development Trust and administered by Provisiongolf.