Danang, Vietnam: Golfasian has joined the push to promote Central Vietnam as one of the region’s foremost places for play. Among Asia’s most prominent golf tour companies, the Thailand and Vietnam-based operator has signed a strategic partnership with Vietnam Golf Coast, a destination marketing organisation that links six of the area’s best signature golf courses, […]
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States: History will be made this summer when Pinehurst Resort & Country Club hosts the 36-hole match play final of the 119th US Amateur Championship on two courses. When the 2019 championship begins on August 12, Pinehurst’s Course No. 2 and Course No. 4 will host the stroke play rounds, which […]
California, United States: Akshay Bhatia, the eighth rated player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and top ranked junior amateur player, has signed with Lagardère Sports for management and marketing representation. Bhatia, previously the number one ranked Rolex junior golfer in the world and the 2018 AJGA Rolex Boys Player of the Year, will remain […]
Phuket, Thailand: Argentina’s Miguel Carballo prevailed on the first play-off hole to win his second Asian Development Tour (ADT) title at the Singha Laguna Phuket Open. Carballo entered the final round four shots off the pace, but a birdie blitz saw him close with a six-under-par 64 and force a play-off with Korean Kim Joo-hyung […]
Qinhuangdao, China: American Luke Kwon overcame a double bogey on hole 16 then closed with back-to-back birdies to hold off Myles Creighton (69) and secure a one-stroke victory at the Qinhuangdao Championship. American Matthew Negri, playing in the final group with Canadian Creighton and Chinese Taipei’s Wang Wei-hsuan, carded a 70 to share third with […]
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States: Complimentary registration for the 2019 PGA Fashion & Demo Experience is open at PGALasVegas.com for PGA and LPGA Professionals, merchandise buyers and golf industry professionals. Exhibitor and media registration will open shortly. Returning to the upscale Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas and the flagship property of Topgolf Las Vegas, […]
Haikou, Hainan, China: The Hainan International Golf Alliance has been established to bring together government and golf tourism stakeholders from across Hainan Province and promote the tropical Chinese island as a global golf tourism destination. Officials from local government, including Hainan Government Party Secretary Ni Qiang, the Vice Mayor of Haikou Deng Haihua and the […]
Lăng Cô, Vietnam: Laguna Golf Lăng Cô, the award-winning golf component at the Laguna Lăng Cô integrated project in Central Vietnam, has become the first fully operational course in the world to be elevated into a new elite category by its designer Sir Nick Faldo. The British legend, a six-time Major winner and prolific course […]
New York, United States: Discovery Inc has bought golf media brand Golf Digest from Condé Nast for US$30 million. Golf Business News reported that the deal, in which Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav prevailed in a bidding war over the Comcast-owned NBC Sports Group, the owner of the Golf Channel, was announced on May 13. […]
Colorado, United States: GOLFTEC opened 2019 with the most successful first quarter in company history, providing more than 250,000 golf lessons and increasing year-over-year merchandise sales by over 20 per cent. During this period, GOLFTEC opened five new or remodelled Training Centres, including its first location in China. The company taught its nine millionth lesson […]
Lawrence, Kansas, United States: The 2019 Rounds 4 Research fund-raising programme to support turfgrass studies, administered by the Environmental Institute for Golf (EIFG), sold 1,465 rounds of golf and yielded nearly US$364,000 in its May online auction, making it the most successful in the programme’s history and an increase of US$51,000 over 2018. The EIFG […]
Amsterdam, Netherlands: A global leader in plant nutrition, ICL Specialty Fertilizers has joined the Asian Golf Industry Federation. With its mantra to ‘grow more and better with less’, the company leverages state-of-the-art precision nutrition and technologies to ensure maximum growth. “Everything we do is focused on one aim: making plants, crops and grass grow better,” […]
New York, United States: The largest ever single-day celebration of women’s golf will take place on June 4 with venues from every corner of the globe joining forces to promote the sport, including Hong Kong and Vietnam. A little over four years ago, Women’s Golf Day (WGD) was simply a pipe dream for founder Elisa […]
Cam Ranh, Vietnam: Award-winning KN Golf Links continues to push boundaries in Vietnam’s golfing market place with the introduction of StayPrime’s TeeWalker GPS system. Further enhancing its services and customer experience, the club has installed the latest generation of GPS technology from StayPrime, providing golfers with a user-friendly hand-held device that can go anywhere on […]
Dongguan, China: A fortnight after making international golfing headlines, teenager Kuang Yang will step into the limelight once more when he tops the bill at the 14th Faldo Series Shenzhen Championship. Already well known within Chinese golfing circles following a spectacular run of domestic success, the 14-year-old schoolboy’s remarkable exploits in the European Tour’s Volvo […]