Gold Coast, Australia: Golf Industry Central has launched a Grow The Game Central initiative that aims to create a worldwide community of like-minded people banding together to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to play golf or increase their participation. Golf Industry Central Director Mike Orloff said he created the website www.GrowTheGameCentral.com to tackle challenges […]
Karuizawa, Japan: Yu Chun-an fired a second successive 67 as Chinese Taipei stayed within striking distance of the leaders at the half-way stage of the 2014 World Amateur Team Championship. Heading into Friday’s third round, the Chinese Taipei team is in a share of 11th place on 274 – six shots off the blistering pace being […]
Cleveland, Ohio, United States; Minjee Lee, the number one ranked female amateur golfer in the world, has signed with IMG for worldwide management and marketing representation. Lee, 18, completed a successful amateur career at last week’s Women’s World Amateur Team Championship, where she shot 64-65 in the final two rounds to lead Australia to victory. […]
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club [KLGCC] will remain the venue for next year’s Maybank Malaysian Open Maybank will mark the milestone 10th anniversary event of its title sponsorship with an increase in the tournament purse to US$3 million. The increase from US$ 2.75 million in 2014 is the first part of […]
Karuizawa, Japan: Chinese Taipei’s Yu Chun-an fired a 67 and Malaysian Gavin Kyle Green, China’s Dou Zecheng, Indian Udayan Mane and Thai Suradit Yongcharoen-chai signed for 68s on the opening day of the 2014 World Amateur Team Championship. However, despite those impressive individual efforts, no Asian nation featured in the top-nine at Karuizawa 72 Golf East. While Canada, […]
Langkawi, Malaysia; Industry stalwart David Townend has been appointed to oversee The Els Club Malaysia company’s burgeoning golf resort position in his new role as Senior Vice President. With more than 30 years’ experience in the golf, leisure and hospitality industry, Townend has made the move from his role as Director for Troon Golf’s Australia, […]
Hanoi, Vietnam: Flagstick has restarted its golf course construction management services at BRG’s Legend Hill Golf Course project in Soc Son. Legend Hill, designed by Nicklaus Design, possesses a unique feature in which every hole has two green sites to enable the golf course to be played with varying strategy and length options. BRG, Flagstick […]
Manila, Philippines: Leading golf organisations have pledged to continue their backing of the Philippines’ growing band of course superintendents. In the wake of the outstanding response to last week’s Philippine Golf Course Management Conference, officials said they are committed to extending their support for the superintendents. Presented by the Asian Golf Industry Federation (AGIF) in […]
Miami, United States: Developmental golf programming company SNAG (Starting New At Golf) and the Miami-Dade Parks & Recreation Department are running one of the largest youth golf programmes in the United States with the hope of introducing the game to hundreds of thousands of kids who otherwise would never have the opportunity to learn the […]
Crans Montana, Switzerland: American David Lipsky became the first player from the Asian Tour to win the €2.3 million (about US$3 million) Omega European Masters when he pipped England’s Graeme Storm to the title at the first play-off hole. With his maiden Tour win in 2012 also coming through a play-off, the 26-year-old Korean-American was […]
New Delhi, India: The US$1.5 million Indian Open will be jointly sanctioned by the Asian Tour and European Tour in 2015. Taking place from February 19-22, the championship will be promoted by Nimbus Sport, which has extended its partnership with the Indian Golf Union (IGU) to manage and promote the Indian Open from 2015 to […]
Karuizawa, Japan: Australia, with a combined 131 from Minjee Lee and Su Oh, came from seven strokes behind Canada to win the 2014 Women’s World Amateur Team Championship (WWATC). “They never thought they were out of it but they were close to possibly being out of it,” said Australian captain Matt Cutler, whose team posted […]
Karuizawa, Japan: Brooke Henderson and Brittany Marchand combined for nine-under-par 135 as Canada held off defending champion Republic of Korea and maintained a two-stroke lead through 54 holes at the 2014 Women’s World Amateur Team Championship. “We had some super-solid play out there,” said Canadian captain Liz Hoffman. “But, we left a few shots out […]
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: World number one Stacy Lewis has confirmed her place in the starting line-up for next month’s fifth edition of the US$2 million Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia. American Lewis, who has recorded three wins and 14 top-10 finishes so far this year, will headline a star-studded field at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and […]
Palo Alto, California, United States: Honours for the golf architecture firm of Robert Trent Jones II are rolling in for five courses included on the biennial rankings of ‘Top 100 Courses You Can Play’ by GOLF Magazine. Chambers Bay Golf Course in Washington – host of the 2015 US Open – is ranked 17th among […]