Golf Digest Online

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with 550 employees, Golf Digest Online (GDO), Inc. is Japan's largest golf business and publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. GDO is unaffiliated with Conde Nast and its Golf Digest Companies. Its retail operation comprises 10 GOLFTEC instruction centers, five brick-and-mortar golf stores in Japan, and e-commerce focused on trade-ins and sales of new and pre-owned golf clubs. Moreover, for more than 2,000 golf courses in Japan, it provides tee-time management software and is Japan's largest online tee-time booking agent. GDO's media division operates multiple golf-centric, advertiser-supported websites and also provides multiple online services as well as numerous real-time events.