Golf in Australia Riding New Wave of Popularity
March 31, 2021
Melbourne, Australia: Australian golf is riding a new wave of popularity with huge participation rises recorded over the summer.
ASIAN GOLF INDUSTRY FEDERATION
Melbourne, Australia: Australian golf is riding a new wave of popularity with huge participation rises recorded over the summer.
London, England: A global increase in demand for green spaces, wellness and the opportunity to work from home is driving new interest in golf properties in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Singapore: Choo Tze Huang marked a new era for professional golf in Singapore with a morale-boosting victory at Sentosa Golf Club.
New Jersey, United States: The USGA, at the invitation of Crooked Stick Golf Club members Joe and Marcia Luigs, along with the club’s Director of Golf, has acquired a selection of artifacts from the estate of Pete and Alice Dye.
London, England: A survey of golf course architects has discovered significant optimism for the next few years, with many design businesses expecting their turnover to return to, and in some cases exceed, pre-pandemic levels.
Ontario, Canada: GGA Partners and Nextgengolf, a subsidiary of the PGA of America, have released the fifth annual Millennial Golf Industry study entitled ‘Life in Flux: The Evolving Priorities of Millennial Golfers’.
Singapore: Sentosa Golf Club and Tanah Merah Country Club will be the venues for a new series of local professional golf events in Singapore.
Cairo, Egypt: Club Car has supplied a fleet of cars to Madinaty Golf Club, a new luxury golf destination in the suburbs of Cairo.
Florida, United States: The golf markets in Japan and South Korea feature prominently in the World Golf Report 2021, the industry’s only global golf retail study.
Arizona, United States: Troon has entered a strategic partnership with Manifest, the lifestyle and travel club that provides custom-crafted getaways to unique destinations within the US, paired with private air service.
Seoul, Korea: Oh Sang-jun, Senior Advisor to the Asian Golf Industry Federation in Korea, has launched the Asia Golf Humanities Institute.
Palm Beach Gardens, United States: Maulana Dotch has become the first African-American woman PGA Member to serve as a General Manager of a golf facility.