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Buydomains Customer Since: 2007
Domain Name: www.GolfPartners.com

GolfPartners.com — This Domain was a Hole in One!

As a young retiree, Scott Merlo was excited that he finally had enough time to work on his golf game. His only problem was a lack of golf partners — players who matched his skill level who were able to play more than once a week.

As an entrepreneur for over 20 years, Scott applied his business sense to the problem. Why not create a website that would allow golfers to find and contact other golfers to play with based on age, handicap, gender, occupation and location?

GolfPartners.com does just that. It is a service that allows travelling businesspeople, vacationers, and retirees like Scott the ability to search for golf partners.

GolfPartners.com users can contact other members and save hundreds of dollars by paying guests rates rather than tourist rates when travelling. The site also allows members to play at private courses to which they might not otherwise have access!

GolfPartners.com also offers a free golf handicap program to calculate your handicap and includes the web's most comprehensive golf course listing with over 16,000 golf courses included.

"A proper domain name is everything in online marketing. You can have a great business idea but without that perfect domain name...you have an uphill battle trying to get your site well known." — Scott Merlo, Founder

"When I came up with the idea, I typed in the name and saw that BuyDomains owned it but it was for sale. I called and spoke with a professional domain expert who helped me secure my domain quickly and painlessly. Thanks BuyDomains, we couldn't have done it without you!"

Scott owns over 500 domains, including anything with "golfpartners" in it, such as: USAGolfPartners.com and CaliforniaGolfPartners.com. These domains all point to his main site GolfPartners.com driving traffic and increasing membership across the country.

So what's next for this busy "retiree"? He plans to revamp the GolfPartners.com site with some exciting new offerings such as enhancing the free handicap program to allow users to rate themselves against other members, expanding the golf course listings to include international venues, and more!