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Clear Course acquires club systems & Howdidido
Established in 1982 and based in Manchester, Club Systems International, one of the golf industry’s biggest brand names, provides leading sports management software to more than 1,750 sports clubs across 17 countries. Its vast customer base is predominantly golf clubs, but also includes rugby, cricket and leisure clubs, for which it designs systems to streamline memberships, manage club competitions and process payments.
By joining ClearCourse, Club Systems International will receive increased investment to develop its product offering and reach thousands more customers worldwide. Furthermore, the business will benefit from integration with ClearCourse’s full spectrum of software businesses and ClearAccept, a payments solution designed by ClearCourse that gives specialist brands full control over their payments process while easing the challenges of security and compliance. This deal represents ClearCourse’s growth in the sports, payments and leisure sectors.
As part of this transaction, ClearCourse has also acquired HowDidiDo Media (also known as HDID Media), the leading advertisement and publishing entity connected to Club Systems International and owned by the same shareholders. The business operates HowDidlDo.com, Europe’s largest golfing network, which caters for over half a million golfers who have recorded seven million rounds of golf on the platform, as well as a number of golf media outlets including The Golf Business and GreenKeeping magazines. Club Systems’ managing director, Richard Peabody, and its chairman, Glyn Roberts, will continue to lead the company.
ClearCourse was founded to support the growth of UK businesses that provide software and payment processing services to a variety of membership organisations including non-profits, trade associations, trade unions, sporting bodies and charities. It acquires innovative businesses with strong management teams and complementary offerings, facilitating operational and commercial synergies. The Group has undergone remarkable growth since its foundation, expanding from a standing start to now having over 800 employees and serving upwards of 20,000 customers with more than 30 solutions.
Gerry Gualtieri, CEO of ClearCourse, commented: “Sports and leisure is an exciting sector which continues to be invigorated by great software designed with clubs, organisers and members in mind. Club Systems has seized this opportunity by creating clever, purpose-built sports club solutions, amassing a vast and diverse customer base as a result. We are delighted to welcome Glyn, Richard and the wider team to ClearCourse.”
Richard Peabody said: “This is a very exciting time for sports’ clubs as life begins to look more like the normal we experienced before the pandemic and clubs are able to operate at full capacity once again. Joining ClearCourse and having access to its pool of talent, knowledge and software expertise will help us to ensure that Club Systems can remain at the forefront of the sports club management sector.”
Prostate Cancer UK
Prostate Cancer UK – HowDidiDo - How Do We Beat It
It may not have been difficult to notice over the last few years, the amount of exposure HowDidiDo has been giving to a particular men’s health charity. Well, we are not ashamed to admit that our impassioned support has turned into somewhat of an obsession.
So far, since the launch of our Prostate Cancer UK competition, ‘How Do We Beat It’, our HowDidiDo users, your members, and ones like them all over GB&I have raised an incredible £200,000. That is enough funding for a clinical research nurse for 10,000 hours (or 5 nurses for a year), to test new ways of preventing, treating, and diagnosing prostate cancer. We think that is simply amazing, and one of my reasons for writing to you, is to thank you for helping us to reach that milestone.
However, we want to do so much more. If just 7 members from each club signed up for our virtual eclectic competition, we could double last year’s total of £30,000. If we could encourage a dozen to enter, that would be beyond our wildest dreams.
All we ask, is you help us to publicise the competition. Display posters on noticeboards, send emails or notifications, or simply discuss the competition amongst friends and members.
It’s easy to sign up and for a donation of only £5, not only could you or your member help this worthy cause but win a place in our grand final at possibly one of the best courses in the UK.
https://www.howdidido.com/ProstateCancerUK
Some clubs have instigated their own mini leagues and encouraged members that way, others have simply posted on social media to help beat a cancer that is now amongst one of the biggest killers of men over 50.
The competition is open to all ages, male and female and a fun league table of supporting clubs has now been set up, the enormously proud leader of which is Seacroft Golf Club in Lincolnshire.
We know that golf clubs do a huge amount for charities of all types but please, if you can, support the cause and help us, to help Prostate Cancer UK, Beat It!
Please download our poster here HDWBI poster.pdf
