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BlueGolf's suite of applications for golfers includes tournament searching, course tours, scorecards, personal statistics, rankings, and more
Clubessential Holdings, the leading provider of club membership management and payment solutions, today announced the formation of its Golf and Club Technology business unit in conjunction with its strategic acquisition of BlueGolf, the new industry standard for tournament registration, management and leaderboard software for professional, amateur, junior golf programs and public & private clubs. The new Golf and Club Technology business unit will operate under the leadership of current Clubessential president, Scott Strong.
"Our mission has always been to provide best-in-class solutions that help our clubs and programs recruit, engage, and retain members for life," said Randy Eckels, CEO of Clubessential Holdings. "I'm really excited about our ability to now offer what is rapidly becoming the preferred technology for tournament programs and golfers with the addition of BlueGolf. Ed Hughes, and his team, have dedicated the past two decades to building the premier software platform used by over 30,000 golf tournaments, most PGA Sections, leading golf associations and tours, and more than one million registrations every year. We look forward to working with Ed to rapidly expand the global footprint for the BlueGolf product offerings."
BlueGolf's next-gen golf tournament technology serves 30,000 professional, amateur, and junior tournaments annually including global leaders in golf such as the PGA TOUR Q School and Monday Qualifiers, The PGA of Great Britain & Ireland, Northern Texas PGA, Northern California Golf Association, Brazilian Golf Confederation, US Am Tour, Junior World Golf Championship, FCG, Faldo Tour, and the Federation for International FootGolf. From registration, planning, tournament schedules, and player messaging to real-time scoring, leaderboards, and hole locations, BlueGolf covers every aspect of tournament management. Its suite of applications for golfers includes tournament searching, course tours, scorecards, personal statistics, rankings, and more.
Already the industry leader for private club and public golf course management SaaS solutions, serving over 3,000 public and private clubs and courses through brands Clubessential and foreUP, the acquisition of BlueGolf positions Clubessential Holdings with the most complete golf course and club technology on the market.
"We considered a number of strategic options for rapidly expanding the BlueGolf business in the years ahead," said Ed Hughes, CEO of BlueGolf. "Clubessential Holdings stood out as the right partner, with a deep understanding of the golf and club technology market, to help accelerate our growth, further support our loyal customers, and assist our team with resources, expertise, and a global distribution channel."
Clubessential offers a full suite of membership, club management, and payment solutions to golf, country, city, yacht, and other private clubs, delivering website, reservations, tee time, mobile app, accounting, POS, CRM, and other software solutions. foreUP specializes in cloud-based point of sale, tee sheet, billing, food and beverage, and reporting software solutions, as well as marketing and web services for public golf clubs.
About Clubessential Holdings, LLC
Clubessential Holdings provides Software as a Service solutions to private clubs, public golf courses, health & fitness clubs, spas, military organizations, municipalities, and college athletic programs.
Across eight brands - Clubessential, ClubReady, Exerp, foreUP, Innovatise, PrestoSports, TAC, and Vermont Systems - the company offers a variety of forward-thinking technology and services which help more than 16,000 customers attract, engage, and retain over 15 million club members, community patrons, and sports fans for life.
For more information, visit the Clubessential Holdings website.
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Amy Huff
Chief Marketing Officer
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513.533.5788
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Don’t Use Drugs and Ride: Hospitals Treat Thousands of Drug-Related Bike Injuries Each Year
From 2019 to 2020, more than 11,000 people who had been using drugs were treated in U.S. emergency departments for injuries that occurred while riding a bicycle, according to a new report in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
"When these patients present to the emergency department, it becomes important not only to treat the injuries but also to refer patients to drug treatment in an effort to intervene and prevent further negative events related to drug use," says the report's lead author Bart Hammig, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Public Health Program at the University of Arkansas.
Further, among these patients, typical injury-prevention measures such as helmet wearing and improved bike lanes may not be enough to reduce these incidents, as it is "unlikely that the person was riding the bike for exercise," according to the study's authors.
Such bicyclists may instead be riding because of circumstances related to a substance use disorder, such as homelessness, license revocation from a previous driving-while-intoxicated conviction or financial instability -- all of which may limit the ability to drive a car for transportation.
"This is an often overlooked and ignored population when discussing bicycle injuries," Hammig says, "but one that stakeholders such as emergency department personnel, drug treatment centers and transportation officials need to consider when trying to prevent future injuries."
According to Hammig and his co-author, Robert Davis, Ph.D., bicycle crash victims who are intoxicated often have more serious injuries than others. In the study, the reported injuries included fractures (22%) and internal organ injuries (19%), and nearly a third of patients had to be admitted to the hospital. Few injuries (1%) were concussions, but 8% of crashes resulted from drug poisonings. Because the data were recorded at the hospital, victims who died at the scene were not included.
A disproportionate percentage of the patients were men (86.4%). The most common drugs found in the system of crash victims were methamphetamine (36.4%), cannabis (30.7%) and opioids (18.5%), and nearly a quarter of patients also had alcohol in their system.
To conduct their research, Hammig and Davis reviewed 2019-2020 data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a hospital-based database. Statistics from the system's nationally representative sample of U.S. hospitals allow for estimation of the number of incidents countrywide. In this study, the researchers extracted all data for bicycle injuries related to the use of psychoactive drugs (independent of alcohol) during the study period. They estimated there were 11,314 such injuries -- 2.6% of the overall estimated 480,286 bicycle injuries in that study period.
Hammig and Davis note that, because a variety of circumstances contribute to drug-related bicycle crashes -- often overlapping and interacting factors -- prevention will be difficult. However, they note that further surveillance, data collection and study will help elucidate additional ways to prevent such injuries.
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