Case Study: PGA of America achieves double server capacity and uninterrupted real-time scoring with Flexential

Doubled Server Capacity Keeps the Game On for World’s Largest Sports Organization

The PGA of America, the world’s largest working sports organization, faced a dual challenge: protect critical applications from regional outages after Hurricane Ike and handle extreme, event-driven spikes in web traffic that threatened real-time scoring and ticketing systems when those services shared servers. Needing geo-diverse redundancy and rapid scalability for major tournaments, the PGA sought a partner to ensure uninterrupted operations and low-latency delivery to fans and broadcasters.

Flexential delivered colocated and cloud infrastructure, mobilizing teams to reconfigure the PGA’s architecture overnight to route traffic through additional cloud web servers and double capacity—tested before going live. The result was uninterrupted real-time scoring during the PGA Championship, avoided service disruption for fans and media, and a longer-term shift to additional cloud capacity and managed services that freed PGA’s IT staff to focus on revenue-generating applications.

PGA of America

Lou Manz

Director of Information Technologies