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 […]
Hong Kong: Golfers have been ‘shocked and enraged’ by the recommendation of a Task Force on Land Supply to take 32 of the Hong Kong Golf Club’s (HKGC) 172-hectare Fanling site for development. As well as a casting doubt on the future of the US$2 million Hong Kong Open, the move would ‘kill any room for […]
Kathmandu, Nepal: Sukra Bahadur Rai will resolve to complete a Faldo Series Nepal Championship hat-trick when he tees-off his New Year schedule in the seventh edition of the event. A former caddie who has emerged as one of his country’s finest golfers, Rai will set out as favourite in the 13th leg of the 2018-19 […]
Beijing, China: Architect Paul Jansen’s revamped Laguna Phuket Golf Club course will make history in 2019 when it stages the PGA Tour Series-China’s first Global Qualifying event outside of Greater China. To be held from March 5-8, the tournament will be open to players from outside mainland China. Aside from mainland China, Hong Kong and […]
Liberty Corner, New Jersey, United States: The United States Golf Association (USGA) has named Tom Dudley as the recipient of its 2019 Joe Dey Award. The USGA has presented the Joe Dey Award annually since 1996 in recognition of an individual’s meritorious service to the game as a volunteer. It is named for Joseph C. […]
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 […]