The Open launches memorabilia website to support the Grassroots game

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Golf fans around the world will have the chance to secure their own piece of championship history and support the development of the sport for future generations thanks to a new memorabilia website being launched for The Open. For the first time, an official Open Memorabilia site is now live TheOpen.com/auction featuring unique Open assets […]

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Australian Rapid Golf Championship, 20th July 2018, Links Hope Island

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Hope Island, Gold Coast, Queensland (10am, 11 July 2018): Rapid Golf: Welcoming a fitness-conscious youth to Golf courses everywhere. Pre-Event Press Conference Details: Wednesday, 18 July 2018 @ 10am Attendees: Karen Lunn, Tracey-Lea Tiley, Matt Burgess. Links Hope Island Main Event: “Australian Rapid Golf Championships” Friday, 20 July 2018 @ 3pm followed by Afterparty @ […]

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Club goers to experience once-in-a-life-time opportunity on the eve of the 14th Open

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Forty-two club golfers will experience a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play Carnoustie on the eve of The 147th Open when they tee it up in the second staging of The R&A’s 9 Hole Championship Final on Saturday 14 July. The R&A 9 Hole Championship Final will be played over the first four and last five holes […]

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MyGolf celebrates it 15,000th participant!

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MyGolf par-teed in style today as it celebrated an important milestone, with 15,000 participants introduced to golf through Australia’s national junior program over the last twelve months. Josie Laurie, an eight-year-old golfer from the Sandhurst Club in Melbourne’s south-east, was the 15,000th MyGolf participant in 2017-18 and, to celebrate, she invited her fellow Sandhurst Club […]

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Will Topgolf actually help the golf industry grow player numbers?

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By Mathilda Andersson Not many would contest the view that golf has been fighting a losing battle over the past few years, with flattish-to-down participation numbers indicating a sport too stuck in tradition to gain and retain a new generation of players. But a new era has arrived which might just revolutionise the game as […]

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100 Short Courses programme has initiated and created over 30,000 new golfers

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With three months to go until the start of The 2018 Ryder Cup Keith Pelley, Chief Executive of the European Tour, says: “The support we have had from everyone in France; the Government, the French Golf Federation and the fans has been superb. “We have tremendous plans to make The 2018 Ryder Cup the best […]

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The PGAs of Europe and love.golf unite to grow female participation across Europe

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A new partnership between the PGAs of Europe and love.golf – the pioneering group coaching programme for women supported by Syngenta – is set to develop coach education and make a positive impact to female golf participation. Now recognised as a PGAs of Europe Golf Development Partner, love.golf will be one of the Association’s preferred […]

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Hundreds of Golf Courses Tee-Up to Help Monarch Butterflies

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Golf course managers across North America have begun planting milkweed and wildflower habitat to attract butterflies, bees and … golfers. Audubon International and Environmental Defence Fund (EDF) recently partnered to launch Monarchs in the Rough, a programme to assist golf courses in the United States, Canada and Mexico in creating habitat for monarch butterflies and […]

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Royal Opportunity for Junior Presidents Cup Participants

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Royal Melbourne Golf Club has been confirmed as the venue for next year’s Junior Presidents Cup. To be held on December 8-9, the Junior Presidents Cup will precede the 2019 Presidents Cup, which will also be contested at Royal Melbourne Golf Club later that week. The 24 best junior boys from the US and around […]

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National Golf Final Shows Why Golf Can Be Brilliant For Girls And Boys

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Sportsmanship, respect, resilience and other ‘Skills for Life’ were to the fore as young people from all over England and North Wales contested the Golf Foundation’s grass roots National StreetGolf Final at The 3 Hammers Golf Complex; on the course designed by Sir Henry Cotton, founder member of the Golf Foundation. Some 40% of the […]

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