Meet Naela El Attar, Egypt’s first professional golfer

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If there is one thing we can never get enough of, it is young, hard-working and inspirational Egyptians who make it big and put a proud smile on our faces. Meet Naela El Attar, Egypt’s first professional golfer, who is basically making a living participating in tournaments and playing on tours in different cities and […]

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Six-Year-Old Scores Hole-in-One at Laguna Phuket

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Phuket, Thailand: Many golfers spend a lifetime vainly trying to achieve a hole-in-one. Not so for Louise Landgraf. At the ripe old age of six years and eight months, she has become the youngest golfer to score an ‘ace’ at Laguna Phuket Golf Club. Louise achieved her remarkable feat from the red tee at the 108-yard, […]

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World Urban Golf Day IX

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Kicking off across the country as part of GOLFMONTH, Urban Golf Australia took on its greatest challenge yet holding events in 3 states to celebrate the growth of Urban Golfing around Australia and through the world. So far events have been held in Newcastle, Toowoomba and Perth where hundreds of golfers both new and old […]

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European Tour Survey: UK golf activity flourishing

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The European Tour today announced that golf participation in the UK is far from being in decline and is actually flourishing, especially amongst a younger demographic. The findings have emerged from the ‘Golf Actives Study’, a first-of-its-kind programme commissioned by The European Tour, which is published today and which aims to establish a complete picture […]

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Growing Footgolf Seeks Harmony with Golf

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Footgolfers don’t act all that different from golfers. They throw up a tuft of grass to check the wind, take practice swings and mark their ball. They have their own colorful regalia and curse errant shots as their ball sails into the trees. They form clubs and compete against one another, shake hands on the […]

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Martin Dempster: Juniors golfers must be welcomed

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TO build the game’s bright future under the new Scottish Golf banner, it’s important that we look back. Not only to include the good things going forward, but also to remember the bad aspects and how they must continue to be stamped out. On a day of celebration as the Scottish Golf Union and Scottish […]

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Kiwi golfers wanting to be ‘like Lydia’

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When Lydia Ko won the Evian Championship last weekend, she joined a very short list of New Zealanders to win a Golf Major. Only Sir Bob Charles and Michael Campbell had achieved the feat before. But Ko’s success is a game changer, with growing numbers of young players trying to be like Lydia. The real […]

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Golf Used as Key Activity for Battling Parkinson’s Disease

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A clinic at King’s Walk GC in Grand Forks, N. D. highlighted how the game can be used to help maintain balance, coordination and rotation and combat the affliction that impairs movement and is second only to Alzheimer’s as the most prevalent neurological disorder in the U.S. Golf is proving to be a key activity […]

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Australian PGA Member gives lessons to Nepali golfers

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Australian PGA Member gives lessons to Nepali golfers The one-week training camp for the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship-bound Nepali squad concluded at the Gokarna Golf Club. Australian PGA Instructor Kim Baldwin conducted the camp under the auspices of R&A and Gokarna Forest Resort. A total of three players – Nepal No 1 amateur player Arun Tamang, No 2 […]

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Fun was par for the course at first Goofy Golf bash

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Children swung at tennis balls with hockey sticks and lobbed them down the fairways with tennis rackets and lacrosse sticks during the first Goofy Golf Back-to-School Bash Saturday afternoon. Accompanied by family and friends, more than 80 children from kindergarten age and up played nine holes for fun at the event, sponsored by the First […]

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