Is golf stuck in the rough, or is it just a bad lie? That’s the quandary executives in the $70 billion golf industry must address this week as they gather at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla. seeking to get the much-maligned game back into growth mode. 2014’s gloomy golf headlines focused on fewer […]
Orlando, United States: Women in the Golf Industry (WIGI), a leading business networking group for women in golf, will unveil the formation of the WIGI Speakers Bureau during this week’s PGA Merchandise Show. The first of its kind in the golf industry, the WIGI Speakers Bureau offers corporations and allied golf organisations a convenient way […]
The annual PGA Merchandise Show is a golf paradise: 1 million square feet of products designed to help hit the ball farther, straighter and less often. And it’s in Orlando, Florida, where January temperatures reach a balmy 75 degrees. There’s new clubs, new balls and booths and booths of clothes, from traditional golf duds to […]
Given that we’re eight-plus years away from the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics, one would think there would be no rush to introduce all the specifics of a possible – and we emphasize that the word possible should be drenched in caution – Boston staging without at first confirming accuracy. After all, there seems […]
Bad news for golf fans – our sport is teetering. Those in the golf industry will have suspected for some time now that the sport is in decline, but numbers released from a survey into the US golf market are worrying. They show that not only are fewer people taking up the game, but even […]
Golf was once regarded as a bourgeois pastime and it was banned for many years in China. But in recent years the game has seen a soar in popularity, as China’s new elite are gradually taking up the game in record numbers. Statistics indicate that China’s golf lovers have reached over one million. While behind […]
While Tiger Woods’ missing tooth has been dominating the headlines, the 14-time major winner has quietly gotten back to business, inking a multi-year deal with Full Swing Golf, a San Diego-based company that makes golf simulators. Woods says he’s used the simulators for years at The Champions Grill at Isleworth, and plans on installing them at his new course, […]
There might not have been many flying the flag, but the Aussie girls did it proudly to begin the Australian Amateur Championship matchplay today. While only 11 of the 32 qualifiers were Australian, six advanced to the top 16 with Perth’s Hannah Green the standout performer. Green, 18, didn’t play her […]
This feels like a transcendent player fading gently into the twilight of his career. History says that’s what happens when PGA Tour pros — even the best golfers ever — reach their mid-40s, and Phil Mickelson turns 45 in June. So does this week’s Humana Challenge outside Palm Springs unofficially launch Mickelson’s farewell tour? via […]
Rio 2016 are not expecting to need to postpone the golf test event scheduled for the Olympic course in November despite the grass having only recently been laid, officials have insisted here today, although they are still working to accommodate the concerns of environmentalists. The course at Reserva de Marapendi in the main Olympic Cluster of Barra […]
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