The PGA Merchandise Show is ‘the Super Bowl of golf business’

It’s an Aladdin’s cave for golf nuts. Heaven for hackers. Valhalla for garage golfers and other madcap inventors believing they’ve come up with the game’s greatest gadget.

The annual PGA Merchandise Show, which finished yesterday in Orlando after four days of mayhem, is the place to be every year if you are in the golf industry or simply an ordinary golfer wondering what this great game has to offer. Run by the PGA of America at the Orange County Convention Centre, it’s known as the “Major of Golf Business”, with more than 40,000 golf pros and fans gathered under one roof to see the latest gear and technology.

Ireland had a major presence, with 17 Irish companies or organisations on hand to try and attract visitors to our shores not to mention one intrepid inventor.