Entries by Live4Golf

world urban golf day IX

Urban Golf, Cross Golf, Street Golf. Whatever you choose to call it the sport is growing around the world with new organisations showing up almost daily. Locally a group known as Urban Golf Australia have been tirelessly promoting the sport for the last decade through events, urban challenges and the development of a full range […]

Golf Australia team coaches Bonville’s best

BONVILLE Golf Resort has spent one week hosting the Golf Australia high performance training camp. Visitors included current elite Australian representative players from the age of 13 years up, elite professionals including rookie squad members, PGA and LPGA tour members and elite coaches. The camp aims to provide additional resources and data collection via coaching, […]

Local Junior Wins Thurgoona Open

Stuart Fraser, Chief Executive Officer Golf NSW, was joined by Greg Aplin MP, Member for Albury, at Thurgoona Country Club & Resort to present the winner of the Murray District Golf Association Thurgoona Open with their invitation to play in the NSW Open. “The Peter Thomson and Mike Wolveridge designed course was at its challenging […]

MIT’s self-driving golf carts are tourist-friendly, Google’s are wary of people

Google this week shared the accident record for its self driving car fleet — 16 minor crashes since 2009 — then revealed that many of the errors transpired because the robots found it hard to understand people. The robots followed traffic rules to the letter, but people were less predictable, inching forward at stop lights when waiting their […]

The Thailand Golf Travel Mart has been a landmark golfing event

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) in cooperation with the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO) hosted golf tour operators and buyers from key markets worldwide to connect with suppliers from all of Thailand’s golf destinations. The Petchaburi and Prachuap Khirikhan Golf Course Association was another main participant to ensure that local golf courses […]

Free entrance for first round of SMBC Singapore Open as tickets go on sale on the new official site

Tickets for next year’s SMBC Singapore Open went on sale today organisers said and can be purchased through the event’s official new website http://smbcsingaporeopen.com/ and ticketing partner APACTix. Last staged in 2012, the SMBC Singapore Open is set to thrill local golf fans and global audiences alike when it roars back to life from January […]

Footgolf a new spin on golf

It’s golf for the soccer fan, one soccer ball, nine holes, no golf club. Footgolf is a combination of  soccer and golf, played on a traditional golf course with basic golf rules. People kick a football rather than hit a golf ball into a large hole. The player who kicks the ball into the hole […]