Running a successful business requires discipline, know-how, tenacity and energy – as does a well-played game of golf so perhaps it is no accident that business and golf play so well together.

One of the first marketing rules is that people buy from people and what better way to meet and greet potential clientele and like-minded professionals than on the golf course. Whilst it is sometimes of necessity that the corporate mask hides the human side of any company, it is out-of-office meetings which help blow corporate cobwebs away and bring a refreshing and innovative way of doing business.

An excellent tool of communication golf looks set, with the fore-business model, to add growth and exchange to businesses throughout Hampshire.