New Zealand Golf is pleased to announce the winner of the LOVE Golf Member Get Member competition for the chance to play in the BMW New Zealand Pro-Am in Queenstown in March. Andrew Simpson, from the Nelson Golf Club, was chosen as the winner of the Ultimate BMW New Zealand Open Experience, a promotion run in conjunction with the […]
Several prominent figures behind golf’s eagerly-awaited return to the Olympic Games joined forces today with Major Champions, Graeme McDowell and Suzann Pettersen in Florida, in providing an upbeat assessment of the state of play with only 19 months left until the first tee shot in Rio de Janeiro. Peter Dawson and Ty Votaw, respectively the […]
SiriusXM announced today that Pete Bevacqua, the PGA of America’s Chief Executive Officer, will host a new show on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio (Sirius channel 208, XM channel 93). State of the Game will make its live debut on Wednesday, January 28, at 8 p.m. ET and air monthly throughout the year. Bevacqua and co-host […]
I don’t really need to elaborate on that headline, do I? This New York Times story about a Brooklyn man named Alfred Evans, who built a miniature golf course made out of trash in Brooklyn, is just the greatest. Evans uses anything he can get his hands on to build the holes and the layout, […]
Growing the game of golf has been an initiative of many for quite some time. To echo that idea, Rand Jerris of the USGA joins Lou Holder on The Turn to talk about diversifying the game. Click on picture to read full story and see video.
Some of the greatest cricketers in the history of the game will swap their bats for golf clubs at the BMW New Zealand Open when they line up in the inaugural ANZ Celebrity Challenge in Queenstown, from March 12-15. West Indians Sir Viv Richards and Brian Lara, Englishmen Sir Ian Botham and Graeme Swann, Australian […]
GOLF could appear dull to some people – but not if they witnessed the SNAG children’s clinic that took place at Margaret River Golf Club on Friday. Children of about five or six years squealed with delight as they ran about the golf course and threw tennis balls at a velcro target. The target happened […]
The LPGA Tour will open its season for the first time at the newly-created Coates Golf Championship in two weeks. It is also believed to be the first time a tribute course will host a major professional tour event.Eight of Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club’s 18 holes are copies of famous holes from around […]
I read a lot of information and news about golf. Blogs, magazines, newspaper articles and longform stories on the Internet, but nothing this week has intrigued me as much as what Jeff Mwangi told Golf Digest on Friday. Mwangi is also a reader of golf things living in Nairobi, Kenya, and here’s what he wrote […]
In a recent interview on the Golf Channel, Arnold Palmer presented the opinion that claims made by many sports analysts about golf being on the decline are greatly exaggerated. He agrees that the golf’s popularity was down for a couple of years but says all sports go through the same type of cycles. “Think of […]
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