Scottsdale, Arizona, United States: Troon has named Mike Ryan and Bruce Glasco as Co-Chief Operating Officers and Executive Vice Presidents. Both Ryan and Glasco will be charged with directing domestic and international operations for Troon and its 270-plus golf courses worldwide. Current Troon Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, John Easterbrook, has been appointed […]
Singapore: Reliable and consolidated data is one of the keys to safeguarding the future of golf clubs in Singapore and around Asia. That is the view of Eric Lynge, Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Golf Industry Federation (AGIF), the region’s umbrella golfing body. Speaking at a Club Management Mini Summit at Sentosa Golf Club, […]
Tasmania, Australia: The newly-built Cape Wickham golf course on Tasmania’s King Island has been put on the market by Knight Frank. Michael Hede, Director of Knight Frank, said it is a unique offering as it is very rare for a golf course ranked among the World’s Top 100 to be offered on the open market. […]
Bloomington, United States: Toro is entering the final development phase of a revolutionary turf maintenance machine and is asking turf professionals to help give it a name. “We know what it does, we just don’t know what to call it,” said Noah Wahl, Marketing Manager at Toro, an Executive Member of the Asian Golf Industry […]
Singapore: Prayad Marksaeng was not the only Thai with cause for major-style celebrations at the 2017 SMBC Singapore Open. The Asian Tour and Japan Tour veteran confounded the odds by upstaging Major champions Ernie Els and Adam Scott and European Ryder Cup strongman Sergio Garcia to emerge triumphant over the Serapong Course at Sentosa Golf […]
St Andrews, Scotland: The R&A and the USGA have published their annual review of driving distance, a research document that reports important findings on driving distance in golf. Introduced last year, the review examines driving distance data from seven of the major professional golf Tours, based on approximately 285,000 drives per year. Data from studies […]
Orlando, United States: Bill H. Maynard, the Director of Golf Course Maintenance Operations at the Country Club of St Albans, has been elected to a one-year term as President of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA). Maynard, a Certified Golf Course Superintendent (CGCS), served as Vice President of the association in 2016 and […]
Pebble Beach, United States: Titleist Brand Ambassador Jordan Spieth relied upon the New Pro V1x golf ball and a bag full of Titleist equipment to comfortably secure his first PGA Tour victory of the year at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Spieth closed with a two-under-par 70 en route to a 19-under 268 total and […]
Pattaya, Thailand: A new venue and a revised format have been confirmed for the Asian Golf Industry Federation’s (AGIF) 2017 Turfgrass Management Exposition. More than 250 course superintendents and club managers from 20 countries are expected to attend the fifth edition of the event that will showcase the very latest in golf course equipment and […]
London, England: One of Britain’s top universities, Imperial College London, has joined forces with the British and International Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA), the Club Managers Association of Europe (CMAE), England Golf and sustainability firm Environmental Solutions International to work together on a national project to survey the United Kingdom golf sector’s benefits to the environment. The […]
Singapore: The world’s top-10 ranked female golfers will head to Singapore to compete in the 10th edition of the US$1.5 million HSBC Women’s Champions. From March 2-5, the event is being held on the New Tanjong Course at Sentosa Golf Club, a Golf Course Facility Member of the Asian Golf Industry Federation. The field will […]
Jakarta, Indonesia: Highly-rated Jonathan Wijono will aim to deny Tirto Tamardi a successful title defence in this week’s 10th anniversary edition of the Faldo Series Indonesia Championship. Heading into the 21st and final leg of the record-breaking 2016-17 Faldo Series Asia season, Wijono will be brimming with confidence following an astonishing run of almost unbroken […]
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Paraguay’s Fabrizio Zanotti scored a fabulous come-from-behind victory at the US$3 million Maybank Championship, thanks to a glorious final-hole eagle for a closing round of nine-under-par 63. Starting the final day six shots behind pace-setting Danny Willett, the 33-year-old Zanotti won the co-sanctioned tournament by one shot ahead of 2014 Asian Tour […]
St Andrews, Scotland: St Andrews Links has received a top award for its commitment to developing sustainable practices across its world famous living landscape. The world’s largest sustainable certification programme of its kind, Green Tourism, whose mission is to encourage and enable people to make sustainable choices that reduce their impact on the planet, awarded […]
Bloomington, Minneapolis, United States: Toro has introduced The Internet of Turf, which consolidates five of Toro’s key technological products and services under one umbrella. By leveraging the power of the Internet, and today’s latest technological advancements, Toro is able to provide actionable data to turf professionals and the tools to get the job done more […]