Singapore: Ryo Ishikawa, Japan’s ‘Bashful Prince’, will be one of the headline acts at this week’s SMBC Singapore Open. Shugo Imahira, winner of last year’s Japan Golf Tour Organisation (JGTO) Money List, has also confirmed his appearance in the US$1 million event. In fact, the top-five players from that Money List will compete. South African Shaun […]
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States: The PGA of America has promoted Sandy Cross to serve as the first Chief People Officer in the association’s history and Arjun Chowdri as the PGA’s first Chief Innovation Officer. They will both report to PGA of America Chief Operating Officer Darrell Crall. As the new Chief People Officer, […]
Cairo, Egypt: Egypt’s most anticipated new golf course, NEWGIZA, as well as luxury hotel, Marriott Mena House, both located within sight of the Giza Pyramids, have invested in new fleets from Club Car, the Official Supplier to The Ryder Cup. The world-leading manufacturer of small-wheel, zero-emissions electric vehicles has enjoyed a 100% share of the […]
Kathmandu, Nepal: Subash Tamang’s stock continued to rise with a wire-to-wire victory in the seventh edition of the CMS Faldo Series Nepal Championship. Widely regarded as the South Asian country’s brightest male teenage golfing prospect, Subash barely played a false stroke in the 13th leg of the 2018-19 Faldo Series Asia season at Gokarna Forest […]
Bloomington, Minnesota, United States: Toro has announced the launch of the all-new Greensmaster 1000 Series fixed-head walk greens mowers. This revolutionary new series of fixed-head greensmowers, with several patent-pending features, was designed to eliminate variability in the walk mowing process by integrating operators of all sizes and skill levels to work in harmony with the machine. Ultimately, […]
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, United States: The PGA Tour has announced a renewed and expanded agreement with Twitter to distribute, on a free basis, nearly 140 hours of live competition from PGA Tour Live across 28 tournaments during the 2018-19 PGA Tour season. The multi-year agreement will stream on Twitter the first 60 to 90 […]
Hong Kong: Destroying any part of the Hong Kong Golf Club’s Fanling landscape ‘would be an act of extreme vandalism’. That’s the view of Alexander ‘Sandy’ Duggie, Managing Director, Urbis Limited. A registered landscape architect practising in Hong Kong since 1985, Duggie was co-author of a 2005 government study (Landscape Value Mapping of Hong Kong) […]
Orlando, Florida, United States: Inventors of new golf training and teaching aids, accessories and equipment will be able to gauge the interest of more than 40,000 attending PGA Professionals, golf industry leaders and media from around the world at the Inventors Spotlight, during this month’s PGA Merchandise Show. Organised in partnership with the United Inventors […]
Scottsdale, United States: Golf Advisor, NBC Sports’ digital destination for the travelling golfer, has announced a new partnership with Troon, making Golf Advisor the official licensee of Troon Golf Vacations. Golf Advisor will assume responsibilities for marketing and fulfilment for hundreds of properties within the Troon Golf Vacations destination portfolio. Troon Golf Vacations destinations include […]
Delhi, India: Bahamas-bound Pranavi S. Urs will be seeking to maintain her recent rich vein of form in this week’s Faldo Series India Championship. On the back of a series of outstanding performances in the final quarter of 2018, the Mysore teenager, who has been offered a golf scholarship to the Albany Academy in the […]
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, United States: For 19 years, every Monday through Friday, Sets Tasaka, 80, has taken the bus from his home in Wailuku, Maui, to Hale Makua’s Adult Day Health Centre. Hale Makua – which improves the well-being of those in its care through compassionate, personalised health services and is a primary beneficiary […]
Singapore: Paul Casey, one of golf’s in-form players last year, will make the SMBC Singapore Open one of his opening events this year. The Englishman, a star of the European team that claimed the Ryder Cup in September, has announced that after competing in Hawaii on the PGA Tour he will head to the SMBC […]
Orlando, Florida, United States: The fourth annual Performance Textile Fair, co-located with the 2019 PGA Merchandise Show, will be held at Orlando’s Orange County Convention Centre from January 23-25. The Fair will provide a unique marketplace for apparel product development executives to uncover the latest trends, as well as source performance and technical fabrics by […]
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States: GOLFTEC – the world leader in golf lessons and premium club fittings – has announced the opening of a state-of-the-art performance centre in North Scottsdale, its fourth in the metro area. The North Pima Road facility is 2,400 square feet and has four teaching/practice bays staffed by highly-trained coaches. These individuals […]
Singapore: Singapore’s development as a desirable golfing destination will be the theme of the Asian Golf Industry Federation’s (AGIF) first Club Management Mini Summit in 2019. Featuring a quartet of high-powered speakers, the Summit will be held at Sentosa Golf Club on January 18, coinciding with the second round of the SMBC Singapore Open. Eric […]