Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: The European Senior Tour made history last week with the Sharjah Senior Golf Masters presented by Shurooq becoming the first European Tour, European Challenge Tour or Senior Tour event to be played on a nine-hole golf course. Held at Sharjah Golf & Shooting Club, Senior Tour competitors negotiated the nine-hole Peter […]
Women’s golf has received a boost with The R&A agreeing to increase its funding for the Ladies European Tour (LET) and its development circuit, the LET Access Series, for 2017. The R&A, which completed its merger with the Ladies’ Golf Union (LGU) at the start of the year, has supported the LET for more than […]
PGA Junior League Golf, the PGA of America’s signature youth golf programme, will expand to Asia, starting with China this summer. The popular team approach to golf for boys and girls aged 13 and under will debut in Asia for the first time through a new joint licensing agreement with NLN, LLC. The announcement was […]
By Mathilda Andersson If you follow golf, you’ve heard of him. Lending his name to professional golf tournaments around the world through his ISPS group, Dr Haruhisa Handa has endorsed the global golf industry for almost three decades now – simply out of love for the game. A Japanese businessman and philanthropist, artist and tenor […]
The Open has teamed up with Manchester City Football Club ahead of the 146th staging of the Championship at Royal Birkdale this July. The agreement will see The Open and the Club deliver exclusive content to both golf and football fans in the build-up to the much-anticipated Championship. To mark the occasion, Spanish golfer and […]
Click here to watch video It didn’t take long for Shanshan Feng’s bronze medal win to make an impact in China. In August, golf made its return to the Olympic games for the first time in more than 100 years. Golf’s involvement was touted as an opportunity to grow the game around the world, but […]
Topgolf is fully embracing its opportunity to attract the next generation of golfers. The massively-popular entertainment centers are the driving ranges of a new era, a unique combination of technology, fun and social interaction that bring together players of all ages and abilities — even non-golfers — for friendly competition. And now Topgolf is offering […]
Golfing legend, the late Arnold Palmer, described this win as the greatest achievement of his golfing career – and the little dance he performed on the 18th green at Augusta, Georgia, underlined that. In April 1964 Palmer became the first man to become a four-times winner of the famed Masters when he spectacularly lifted himself […]
The market is heating up for high-tech, non-traditional golfing experiences. Topgolf centers, which combine sprawling driving ranges along with swanky lounges with drinks and games, are popping up all over the country and proving to be very popular. Now a Las Vegas casino is getting in on the action. Late last year, the MGM Grand […]
PGA Junior League Golf, the PGA of America’s signature youth golf program, will expand to Asia, starting with China this summer. The popular team approach to golf for boys and girls ages 13 and under will debut in Asia for the first time ever, through a new joint licensing agreement with NLN, LLC. The announcement […]
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