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 […]
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States: Troon has acquired Green Golf Partners, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based golf course management firm. Green Golf Partners currently manages 18 public and private golf courses located across five States – Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin. Green Golf Partners was founded in 2011 and has more than 100 years of combined experience […]
Hong Kong: China’s Liu Yan overturned a seven-shot overnight deficit to secure her maiden Tour win in the EFG Hong Kong Ladies Open with a famous one-stroke victory at Hong Kong Golf Club. The 21-year-old held her nerve on the Old Course to card a closing four-under-par 68 and a seven-under tournament total. In a […]
Beijing, China: Canada’s Richard Jung made light of wet conditions, recording just one bogey en route to a four-under 68 and a two-shot victory over American Ryann Ree (69) at the Beijing Championship to secure his second career PGA Tour Series-China title. Jung, 26, took the final-round lead by himself when he birdied the fourth […]
Chiba Prefecture, Japan: Yosuke Asaji capped an unforgettable week when he held his nerve to win the Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup by one shot on Mother’s Day at the Sobu Country Club. With his mother and wife following him throughout the final round, Asaji, who earned his spot by topping the Monday Qualifiers, kept his composure […]
Lawrence, Kansas, United States: Employers of golf course superintendents continue to reinforce the value they place in golf course facility leaders as the average annual salary for the profession climbed to more than US$93,000 in 2019. The average salary and additional data come from the latest biennial Compensation and Benefits Report from the Golf Course […]
Edinburgh, Scotland: Carryway, an Official Supplier to The 2019 Solheim Cup, has unveiled the Captains’ Cars, the golf buggies which will be driven by the Team Captains at Gleneagles in September. Catriona Matthew and Juli Inkster, who will lead the European and American teams respectively, will be cruising around the PGA Centenary Course in style […]
Jakarta, Indonesia: Inspired by the support of his father, Park Seung became the first Korean to win on the Asian Development Tour (ADT) after prevailing on the second play-off hole to claim his maiden professional title at the OB Golf Invitational. Starting the day four shots off the pace, Park traded five birdies against a […]