No, not the Volkswagen Golf 2.0 Turbo I used to have, and was one of my favorite cars . . .

What is Golf 2.0? It’s similar to Web 2.0, but applied to golf. Note that Web 2.0 is not a technology (except AJAX), but it’s more a new way of using the internet or a new application of the web. Based on the O’Reilly write-up on Web 2.0 and Wikipedia’s Web 2.0 definition some of the characteristics are:

• User-generated-content
• Sharing
• Sense of communities
• Crowd-sourcing
• Blogging
• Tagging
• RSS
• Wiki
• Mashups

So how can we bring these ideas to golf to make Golf 2.0? Here are some ideas:

There are already some people that have already gotten this started:

• www.dateagolfer.com -Match.com of golf?
• www.golflink.com - Facebook of golf?

I’ll try to keep maintain this list as I think of more ideas.