Business opportunity: United Kingdom golf tour company branching out

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A piper at Swilcan Bridge entertains an Executive Golf Tours group. (Courtesy Executive Golf Tours)

Executive Golf Tours, based in the United Kingdom, squires prominent sports and business people - among them former basketball star Michael Jordan, former NFL wide receiver Roy Green and actor Richard Gere - on VIP golf, fishing and sightseeing tours to Scotland, Ireland and England.

Expanding after 25 years of experience in organizing tours, it's now seeking new partners.

Howard Morris, company president, said he is offering a license to sell tours on Executive Golf Tour's Web site. The company will pay its partners a 12 percent commission for every golf tour booking. Additional commissions can be earned through the booking of flights.

"We pride ourselves on getting all the details correct for our clients," Morris said. "We offer fully flexible golf tours that can be precisely tailored to the client's wishes including shopping, fishing and sightseeing."

Part of the "tailoring" can include shopping and sightseeing for one spouse while the other is on the golf course.

The company's Web site at execgolftours.com receives 30,000 hits per month, he said. Apparently the interest is more than the home office can handle.

New partners will have the chance to train in Scotland, tour the Old Course at St. Andrews and visit a number of first-class hotel properties. Partners will receive leads, business cards, company letterheads and a laptop computer programmed to give Power Point presentations to golf club and corporate clients.

The company also arranges golf tours to Spain and Portugal, South Africa, Thailand, Dubai, Mauritius and the United States.

The cost of a partnership starts at $17,500. Interested parties should contact the company by e-mail at info@execgolftours.com.

March 19, 2006