Nanjing, China: Lee So-young played a near perfect final round to strike gold in the Women’s Individual Stroke Play competition at the Youth Olympic Games and lead an Asian sweep of the medals. With no bogeys and seven birdies the 17-year-old Korean fired a closing 65 to finish on 14-under-par at Zhongshan International Golf Club. […]
Nanjing, China: Dou Zecheng will carry the hopes of the host nation as he becomes the first Chinese athlete to compete in an Olympic golf competition at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games. The 17-year-old will bid to win an Olympic gold medal on home soil this week in the first ever golf event to be […]
New York, United States: Holding her nerve down the stretch, Park In-bee underlined her status as one of golf’s finest female players with a nail-biting title defence at the Wegmans LPGA Championship. It was the fifth time the Korean has tasted Major glory and the 11th LPGA Tour title of her glittering career. Trailing pace-setting […]
Hong Kong (July 28): Kitty Tam Yik-ching and Lucas Lam will be aiming to continue their rich vein of form when they vie for glory in this week’s Faldo Series Hong Kong Championship. The Hong Kong teenagers have been in dominant mood this year, capturing a succession of titles. On the back of those triumphs, […]
The Asia Golf Show / PGA Merchandise Show – Asia will be held in some three weeks’ time, from Sunday 1 December to Tuesday 3 December at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center. This event, organised by Reed Guanghe Exhibitions, is the sister show to the China Golf Show. Located in Shenzhen, the Asia […]
The Vietnam Turf Seminar will be held on 18th to 19th August. AGIF members speaking at this turf seminar include Greg Turner of Foley United, John Holmes of Atlas Turf, Dr Shoumo Mitra of Syngenta and Tim Kennedy of Simplot. The topics that will be discussed at the seminar range from importance of quality of cut to discussion of various types of turf and turf […]
Tim Trinka, President of the Asian Golf Industry Federation, was in Scotland in early June as one of the panellists of the Golf Business Forum. The 3-day forum, organised by KPMG, saw the coming together of industry personalities across continents to discuss imminent topics affecting the golf industry. Tim alongside AGIF Member Bruce Glasco from Troon Golf, were also interviewed […]
The Asian Golf Industry Federation had a busy yet fruitful weekend at the China Golf Show!The AGIF exhibition booth saw both members and visitors dropping in from time to time to catch up with the executives. The booth was constantly in a flurry of activities with non-stop meetings and discussions. President of the AGIF, Timothy […]
A total of 13 AGIF members participated in the inaugural exposition held at Siam Country Club on 12 March 2013.Said Dr Micah Woods of Asian Turfgrass Center,”I was pleased to see so many AGIF member companies participating…I saw many of the demonstrations and spoke with many company representatives and I was pleased at the quality […]
From Pattaya, Thailand – 200 participants gathered in Pattaya from 12th till 14th March for the 4th Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia Conference, organized by the Thai GCSA and Asian Turfgrass Center on behalf of the Thailand Golf Association. Other than R&A, the Asian Golf Industry Federation was proud to support this year’s event too. […]
The AGIF supported the Green Keepers Seminar organized by the Indian Golf Union (IGU), an event supported by the R&A, this past November. Technical staff from AGIF Members, namely Bernhard, Jacobsen and Toro, participated in a series of week-long courses in Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. They conducted training sessions on golf course equipment […]