Arcis Golf is one of the country’s leading golf course management companies, operating best-in class public, resort and private golf courses and clubs across the United States. The diversity of product and geography, coupled with the size and scope of this portfolio, differentiates Arcis Golf from its competitors. This fast growing, dynamic start-up was founded in early 2013; and, since then, a robust portfolio of more than 60 clubs in 13 states, with 6,000 employees, has been created through strategic acquisitions that build and strengthen the company’s leadership position as an owner and manager of upscale golf and club experiences. In this short time span, Arcis Golf has rapidly grown to be the second largest owner and operator of golf courses in the U.S. Additionally, during the past three years, Arcis has invested more than $60,000,000 to maximize the growth and success of its unique lifestyle brand. Arcis Golf is an innovator, a radical designer of the club experience. Sublime golf is merely table stakes: Arcis is building no less than a lifestyle company, tailoring it to today’s consumer. This means investing in unrivaled amenities and talent, locally sourced fare, family-friendly activities and signature experiences, next-generation technology and more, all while generating dynamic digital content. Those are the marks of Arcis club life. Arcis’s meteoric rise earned the No. 2 ranking on the annual Dallas 100™ list for 2016 by the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship at the SMU Cox School of Business, as well as the No. 2 ranking in the Travel & Hospitality category, and No. 171 overall, on the 2017 Inc. 5000 list recognizing the fastest growing private companies in America. Arcis appeared again on the Inc. 5000 list in August 2018, a signature feat in that only one in three companies warrant sufficient growth to merit back-to-back annual honors. The golf industry has taken notice, too. In January 2020 and 2018, Arcis Golf was named to the National Golf Foundation’s biennial list of the “Top 100 Businesses in Golf,” one of the industry’s most important recording of successful companies, organizations, and associations of fundamental importance to golfers and the golf business at large. In the November/December 2019 issue of Golf Inc. Magazine, Blake Walker, Founder and CEO of Arcis Golf, was ranked #15 among the “Most Powerful People In Golf”. Others – outside the industry – have taken notice as well. In September 2017, D CEO Magazine featured Blake and Arcis Golf. The magazine cover read “Game Plan: How One Local Company Is Reinventing Golf”, which set up the story like an approach shot, while the feature article, “A New Course in Dallas Golf”, found the cup. In June 2018, Blake was named by Ernst & Young as the Entrepreneur of The Year® 2018 award winner in the hospitality category for the Southwest region. Since then, Blake has served as a national judge for the prestigious EY award.