St Andrews, Scotland: A dedicated campaign to raise awareness of the health benefits of golf for people of all ages and abilities is to tee off next month. The first Golf and Health Week will take place from April 15-19 and will aim to encourage golfers, non-golfers and lapsed golfers into taking part in the […]
Lăng Cô Town, Hue, Vietnam: Chinese Taipei’s Chen Ting-yu will take aim at another slice of golfing history when he headlines the field at this week’s 13th Faldo Series Asia Grand Final. Less than four months after posting a stunning victory in the Faldo Series Europe Grand Final, the 17-year-old left-hander finds himself in the spotlight at the […]
Melbourne, Australia: Chyloe Kurdas spent 15 years as an elite Australian Rules footballer. The daughter of a Turkish immigrant father, she grew up in a multi-cultural community in Australia where girls were typically not especially encouraged to play sport. Except for Kurdas, whose parents were committed to education and sport, and whose encouragement resulted in […]
Johor, Malaysia: Kazuki Higa claimed his second Asian Development Tour (ADT) title in fine style, closing with a superb seven-under-par 65 at the PGM UMW ADT Championship. A week after finishing tied-second at the Palm Resort Golf and Country Club, the 23-year-old Japanese swept to a six-shot victory at the same venue with a four-day total […]
Tokyo, Japan: Defending champion Atthaya Thitikul will lead a host of emerging stars from the region when the second edition of the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific (WAAP) is played at The Royal Golf Club in Ibaraki Prefecture. At number eight in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), Thailand’s Atthaya will also be the highest-ranked player in […]
Singapore: Golf course superintendents from around the region will once more be to the fore at the SMBC Singapore Open. To be staged over the award-winning Serapong Course at Sentosa Golf Club, the SMBC Singapore Open is co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and Japan Golf Tour Organisation. As well as featuring star players from both […]
California, United States: With Governor Jerry Brown’s recent announcement mandating a 25 per cent state-wide reduction in water use, California golf courses received a lot of attention as key targets for water-savings efforts. Yet many California courses are already great examples of water use efficiency and savings. Using the latest irrigation technology and innovation many […]
Singapore: Marina Bay Golf Course is offering another first this month when golfers have the opportunity to cruise the fairways in style using its newly acquired novelty golf carts. This will be the first time that novelty golf carts are used during golf games on the course in Singapore. “We are always looking at ways […]
Okayama, Japan: Taichi Teshima won the Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open, earning a place in the 144th Open at St Andrews along with fellow-Japanese Shinji Tomimura and Tadahiro Takayama and of Australian Scott Strange . A final round three-under-par 69 at JFE Setonaikai Golf Club took Teshima to 15-under-par for the championship and gave him […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh: The Bashundhara Group and Bangladesh Golf Federation hailed the successful staging of the Bashundhara Bangladesh Open, won by Singapore’s Mardan Mamat. Bashundhara Managing Director Safwan Sobhan said the new Asian Tour event was a great platform to promote their brand and the sport of golf in the country and across the region. “We […]
Washington, United States: The success of Titleist golf balls is underlined every week across worldwide professional Tours, but no record could underline this any more than continuing as the #1 golf ball of choice for the majority of the field at the US Open for 67 consecutive years and counting. It was in 1949 at […]
Phuket, Thailand: Asian Golf Industry Federation Golf Facility member Laguna Phuket Golf Club, which re-opened in January after an 18-month makeover by designer Paul Jansen, has joined Thailand’s Golf In A Kingdom collective. The par-71, 6,719-yard eco-friendly layout has been hailed as one of Asia’s leading resort courses since its revamp, with record numbers of […]