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Why Golf Planning Broken and How We Fixed It.

Every year, 12 million U.S. golfers travel to play in tournaments, yet the experience of planning for the trip is the opposite of enjoyable. With more than 100,000 golf events held annually and no central platform to search them all, players and families spend an average of 4.7 hours researching and planning every single tournament.

The result: 65% of tournament golfers report dissatisfaction with current planning resources—leading to frustration, wasted money, wasted time, and missed deadlines.

Hubble.GOLF solves all of these challenges. Launching today, the new all-in-one platform unites tournament discovery, travel booking, budgeting, and team coordination into a single, seamless experience.

Hubble Makes Golf Planning Easier for Everyone Involved in Competitive Golf.

  1. Parents of Junior Golfers
    Hubble.GOLF helps parents of junior golfers create itineraries, organize travel, build a smart budget, and track their child’s development all in one place.
  2. Adult Amateur Golfers
    Hubble.GOLF helps adult amateur golfers locate events that fit their schedule, score the best deals on tournament hotels, and stay on budget.
  3. Golf Coaches and Instructors
    Hubble.GOLF helps golf coaches and instructors coordinate team schedules and logistics with ease, communicate with players and parents, search for tournaments, and track player development.
  4. Tournament Directors and Organizers
    Hubble.GOLF helps tournament directors and organizers do away with outdated planning methods, ensure smooth registration, and gain access to a larger, more connected community of players and fans.

Everything You Need, All in One Place

1. Comprehensive Tournament Discovery

Gone are the days of bookmarking dozens of different tournament websites. Our database contains thousands of tournaments nationwide, from local junior golf events to major amateur championships. Search by location, date, age group, or skill level and find exactly what you’re looking for in seconds.

For junior golf families, this means no more missing registration deadlines or overlooking perfect developmental opportunities. For competitive amateurs, it means discovering events you never knew existed. Our golf tournament platform centralizes what used to be scattered across countless websites, email lists, and word-of-mouth recommendations.

2. Intelligent Itinerary Planning

Building a tournament schedule used to mean juggling spreadsheets, calendars, and sticky notes. Now, you can create comprehensive itineraries that include tournaments, travel time, and family commitments. Everything syncs seamlessly across your devices, so you’re never double-booked again.

Parents managing multiple junior golf schedules will especially appreciate having all tournament information centralized in one place. Share schedules with coaches, family members, or carpool partners with ease. You can view travel time between events, helping you plan realistic schedules that don’t leave players exhausted before they even reach the first tee.

3. Integrated Travel & Booking

Why visit multiple websites to plan one tournament trip? Book hotels directly through Hubble, often with exclusive discounts negotiated specifically for our golf community. We’ve partnered with major travel providers to make tournament travel simpler.

As we continue to expand our travel integration features, we’re working to add flight and rental car booking capabilities, along with enhanced preference tracking to make your tournament travel planning even more seamless.

4. Cash Caddie: Your Financial Command Center

Tournament golf can be expensive, but it doesn’t have to be mysterious. Our Cash Caddie feature helps you track expenses, monitor budgets, and even calculate mileage for tax purposes. Finally, you’ll have clear visibility into the true cost of competitive golf.

For junior golf families making significant investments in their young athlete’s development, this transparency is invaluable. Track everything from entry fees and travel costs to equipment expenses and coaching investments. Generate reports for tax preparation, college scholarship applications, or simply understanding where your tournament budget actually goes. Set spending limits by category and receive alerts before you exceed them.

5. A Community That Gets It

Connect with other golfers, parents, and coaches who understand the unique challenges of tournament life. Share course-specific insights, get advice on navigating college golf recruitment, compare notes on training approaches, and build relationships that extend far beyond the 18th hole.

Our community features include tournament-specific discussion threads where players share local knowledge about courses, lodging recommendations from families who’ve been there before, and even carpooling coordination for regional events. For junior golf development, parents can connect with others at similar stages of the journey, sharing both the victories and the valuable lessons learned along the way.

Built by Golfers, for Golfers

Our team includes competitive players, tournament parents, and coaches who’ve experienced every scenario you can imagine. We’ve missed registration deadlines, booked hotels in the wrong city, and showed up to tournaments unprepared. Those painful lessons became the foundation for every feature in Hubble.

We didn’t just build software – we solved problems we’ve actually lived. Every feature exists because someone on our team has a story about needing exactly that tool at exactly the wrong moment. That lived experience shapes not just what our golf tournament platform does, but how it works and what it prioritizes.

What's Coming Next?

This launch is just the beginning. Over the coming months, you’ll see expanded tournament coverage, enhanced community features, and tools that make competitive golf even more accessible. We’re exploring partnerships with golf academies, junior golf organizations, club manufacturers, and tournament organizers to create an even richer ecosystem.

Features in development include performance tracking tools that help players identify strengths and improvement areas across multiple tournaments, enhanced coach collaboration tools for team management, and integration with popular golf GPS and stat-tracking apps. We’re also working on scholarship resource centers specifically for families navigating the junior golf to college golf pathway.

Most importantly, we’re listening. Your feedback drives our roadmap, and every feature request gets serious consideration from our development team. As competitive golfers and tournament parents ourselves, we know the platform is never truly “finished” – it evolves as the needs of the competitive golf community evolve.

Join the Revolution

Competitive golf has been stuck in the past for too long. Scattered information, manual processes, and disconnected systems have made tournament golf harder than it needs to be. Hubble changes that equation.

Whether you’re a junior golfer chasing college scholarships, a parent managing multiple kids’ tournament schedules, or a coach working with an entire team, our golf tournament platform was built with your specific challenges in mind. We understand the unique demands of competitive golf because we live them alongside you.

Ready to Simplify Your Golf Life?

Creating your Hubble account takes less than two minutes, and you can start exploring tournaments immediately. No long learning curves, no complicated setup processes – just powerful tools that work the way you think.

Welcome to Hubble.GOLF. Welcome to the future of competitive golf.

Ready to get started? Sign up for your free Hubble account today and discover what organized tournament golf feels like.

Have questions about Hubble or ideas for future features? We’d love to hear from you. Connect with our team through the community section or reach out directly – we read every message and we’re genuinely excited to hear how we can make this golf tournament platform even better for you.

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By: Golf Channel | Duration: 00:30:54


Video Description

In this week’s edition, the guys discuss the recent selections for the U.S. and International Presidents Cup team, the differences between Scottie 2024 and Scottie 2025, and why Collin Morikawa would make a caddie change in the middle of the season. #GolfChannel #PGATour#GolfChannelPodcast

Chapters:
(0:00) Intro
(1:30) Did the U.S. and International Presidents Cup teams make the right call?
(11:00) Is the Presidents Cup even relevant at this point?
(20:00) The biggest differences between Scottie 2024 and Scottie 2025
(24:30) What Collin Morikawa’s caddie change tells us
(30:00) We want your questions for Sunday’s pod show!
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23 Comments

  1. @LettiGarzaza

    My partner tried to surprise me with breakfast in bed. It was sweet until I accidentally spilled orange juice on the sheets. Nothing like a sticky situation to start the morning🧡

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  2. @TheOtherKine

    Well, Eldrick Tont did it, so why is this a big deal? LMAO
    Does anybody talk about Jack's caddie, or Arnie's caddie, or do you even know or remember who they were at all???? Nope

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  3. @RobertHughes-j5y

    Ha! I feel bad for the employee. It sucks when its a situation where if the employer sucks its your fault. Karma is messy Colin. Maybe don’t walk out on your fans and now it seems like your friends.

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  4. @milllworks

    Hey, Rex. No shaming from this quadrant. 72 year old here. Last year I was starting to look a bit like you in that walk and talk. My wife even said I kinda looked like the guy in the movie The Santa Claus when he was transforming into Santa. Well that was enough for me. Got myself a Concept 2 Rowing ERG (look it up). Started doing simple steady state rowing, 21-22 stroke per minute, 70 watts, for 25-30 min each morning. Dropped 10-12 pounds (and easily keeping it off) and added a 3-5 mph to my ball speed as well. At 5'8", i was a paunchy 165. Now only 153. Bonus…all my old shorts fit again! So, there's that. Cheers…

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  5. @OG_Jack

    Ted Williams is not remembered as a good manager.

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  6. @josephboza7448

    #askLav PGA Tour lost power at Zurich in the final round. From 230pm-430pm there was no golf on tv. Have Rex and Lav heard of a situation like that where we couldnt watch any golf for 2 hours. Could Rex describe the feeling of what it was like on site as word got around when there was no power on the tv side of things? It felt like to me between that and the weather it was a case of if anything could go wrong it did.

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  7. @edwardcreighton2638

    LIV Mexico last round averaged 110000, on Fox Sports prime time. Live last 2 hours of rain delayed Zurich 2.29 million, up 24%. Who needs LIV.

    Collin, bit like JT, trying to fall over the line again.

    Great pod per usual.

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  8. @brandonclaye3718

    Question for Signature events – Why isn’t the RBC Canadian Open a signature event? If the PGA tour wants to grow the game of golf internationally and there is a huge Canadian contingent, shouldn’t we invest there? The tournament would need to be moved, and as it stands is almost in the worst possible place on the schedule if it wanted big names. Separately, why do we waste Torrey Pines every year on a tournament that so few Top players play? PGA tour should rethink how they do the CA swing and if TP should be revisited later in the year.

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  9. @edwardcreighton2638

    #asklav. Following Rory's Masters win, why does US golf media discount Rory's DP world tour wins, they only include PGA tour wins.

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  10. @stryderja9570

    The Presidents cup is the worst tournament in the world of golf.

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  11. @azdh85224

    Why is Sheffler still world #1. He has not won anything this year. Shouldn’t Rory’s 3 victories at Pebble Beach, The Players Championship, and the Masters move into him into world #1?

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  12. @tomdallas3690

    Essentially zero people on earth really care about the President's Cup. I mean, golf would be better off without it. Not only that, but if they never played the Ryder Cup again, real golf fans would not really care. The real action is weekly tournaments where journeymen have a chance to dethrone the better players, and then at the majors, where players have their legacies in their hands. I mean, team golf just is a non-factor. People who really follow golf do not care about the Walker Cup or the Solheim Cup, and we are tired of being told to care. Many will argue that the Ryder Cup is important. The United States players would not care at all if it went away. Tiger didn't care. Phil didn't care. It is manufactured nonsense, kinda like high level virtue-signaling in that people don't really care, but are told to care, then they act like they care. But they don't really care. People are more excited a random Sunday NFL game then they are about any team golf crap.

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  13. @tomdallas3690

    Can't wait to see Keegan Bradly acting all serious at the Ryder Cup. I mean, who cares? I could put a ten year old child up as a Ryder Cup captain and that ten year old child could easily be a winning Ryder Cup Captain. That makes the job a total joke.

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  14. @tomdallas3690

    If Russell Henley doesn't blast into the pin late in the round when he beat Morikawa, then Collin wins that relatively easily. That eagle by Henley was going way way way past the hole. That shot probably cost Morikawa's caddie his job. Totally random.

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  15. @BG-1970

    Remember when just in the last few years, Colin switched coaches and was struggling with his golf game? He mentioned how his caddie stuck with him and how much he appreciated it so much! Turns out not so much. I think Colin isn’t as nice as he seems. Telling reporters he doesn’t owe them anything! My opinion on him has changed as of late!

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  16. @jamesiverson209

    The International team had a 45+ minute window where they could have won if everything went perfectly for them. That's not a realistic scenario for them to win – things almost never go perfectly.

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  17. @kowanmcgarry

    Ryan, drink water everyday. 6 to 8 bottles a day. Don’t eat dinner. I learned from Gary Player, he eats a lot of food for breakfast, he eats a small amount for lunch, he eats almost nothing for dinner or literally no food for dinner. His reason for this is, “why fill up your car with gas and park it in the driveway”. Food is the gas, the car is the body. Fill up in the early hours of the day, use energy during the sunlight hours. Night hours, that energy needs to be used and go without food during night and sleep. I can send you the interview with Gary player, if you want to watch it. Colin Cowherd video with Gary. ❤❤❤

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  18. @Oahugolfguy

    Raise a state champ ! That’s good for your health right about now !

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  19. @wbwright79

    health advice? embrace decay. old machines break.

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  20. @wbwright79

    many of today's fans weren't around to see how great Rory really was. he was the Tiger replacement. then he decided to get into a kickball game with his buddies. right before The Open. injury did more than physical damage to Rory. it was a mental thing. he wasn't winning like he used to. confidence is a delicate thing. i hope Scottie wins this week, but the FOTS is on; just saying.

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  21. @manx1569

    Team golf is irrelevant, including ryder Cup and presidents cup

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