Adidas Group CEO Herbert Hainer announced this week that the equipment giant plans to lay off approximately 14 percent of the global work force at its TaylorMade golf division by the end of the year. The announcement comes amid a quarterly report that shows TaylorMade sales rose 6 percent during the third quarter. But the […]
Revolutionary new golf and tourism project aims to grow the game of golf in Qatar and establish global best-practice Complete golfing journey offered to support beginners through to professionals including Olazabal designed championship courses Visionary plans for a new world-class golfing destination in the heart of Qatar’s Education City, Doha, have been unveiled […]
Golf professional Toni Batey is full of energy and enthusiasm for teaching both golf and swimming and hopes to pass on this enthusiasm to as many people as possible. She has been a golf professional for 25 years, travelling to South Island golf clubs teaching to all ages. In that time she also spent 11 […]
Encouraged by adventurous golfers, creative greens chairmen are now scheduling their own takes on reverse or cross-country golf days at their properties, a practice that dates back to The Old Course at St Andrews. “It’s astounding how different the terrain looks when you are coming down the fairway from the other side,” said golfer Mike […]
Shanghai – The flagship World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions will stay in China for the next five years with an increased prize fund of $9.5 million, officials said on Tuesday, making it the richest tournament outside the US and major championships. In a slew of announcements at the HSBC Golf Business Forum in Shanghai, the bank […]
Top-level professional golf is headed by an “extraordinary group of players,” but the game urgently needs a bigger ball to keep it relevant for the average amateur, former Ryder Cup player and television analyst David Feherty said. While world No. 1 Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and others have given fans plenty to savor, both on […]
Imagine a golf course with acres of an unproductive turfgrass monoculture traded for fertile farmlands yielding fruits and vegetables, a course that is fully organic, where hundreds of grazing sheep help the lawnmowers and where water recycled though wetlands is reused for irrigation. In December 2015, Belle Mont Farm on Kittitian Hill, a new sustainable […]
An Olympian feat is deserving of an Olympian award. No wonder, therefore, that 12 year-old young golfer Wen Haoran was celebrating after emerging triumphant in the 12th Mission Hills Golfathon Grand Final – one of the most gruelling tests of golf.As a reward for his success, young Wen can now begin thinking about packing his […]
Foshan, China: Global Golf Advisors, formerly known as KPMG Golf Industry Practice and a leading authority on successful management practices for golf and private clubs, has published the first findings from its Institute for Best Practice (IBP). The report, which is the culmination of 12 months of research and contributions from over 100 of the […]
Hong Kong: This week’s UBS Hong Kong Open Charity Cup will raise a minimum of HK$2.3 million [about US$300,000] for the three local groups chosen as beneficiaries by title sponsor UBS and the tournament’s Official Charity, Friends of Asia Hong Kong. Wednesday’s gathering will be the UBS Hong Kong Open’s inaugural fund-raising event, which is […]
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