Adidas to Cut TaylorMade Work Force by 14 Percent

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Adidas Group CEO Herbert Hainer announced this week that the equipment giant plans to lay off approximately 14 percent of the global work force at its TaylorMade golf division by the end of the year. The announcement comes amid a quarterly report that shows TaylorMade sales rose 6 percent during the third quarter. But the […]

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Qatar International Golf Club unveiled at Golf Business Forum

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    Revolutionary new golf and tourism project aims to grow the game of golf in Qatar and establish global best-practice Complete golfing journey offered to support beginners through to professionals including Olazabal designed championship courses  Visionary plans for a new world-class golfing destination in the heart of Qatar’s Education City, Doha, have been unveiled […]

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“Throwback” Golf Variations Gain Popularity

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Encouraged by adventurous golfers, creative greens chairmen are now scheduling their own takes on reverse or cross-country golf days at their properties, a practice that dates back to The Old Course at St Andrews. “It’s astounding how different the terrain looks when you are coming down the fairway from the other side,” said golfer Mike […]

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HSBC extends flagship WGC event in China

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Shanghai – The flagship World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions will stay in China for the next five years with an increased prize fund of $9.5 million, officials said on Tuesday, making it the richest tournament outside the US and major championships. In a slew of announcements at the HSBC Golf Business Forum in Shanghai, the bank […]

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Feherty calls for bigger golf balls to keep game popular

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Top-level professional golf is headed by an “extraordinary group of players,” but the game urgently needs a bigger ball to keep it relevant for the average amateur, former Ryder Cup player and television analyst David Feherty said. While world No. 1 Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and others have given fans plenty to savor, both on […]

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St. Kitts resort launches first fully organic, edible golf course

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Imagine a golf course with acres of an unproductive turfgrass monoculture traded for fertile farmlands yielding fruits and vegetables, a course that is fully organic, where hundreds of grazing sheep help the lawnmowers and where water recycled though wetlands is reused for irrigation. In December 2015, Belle Mont Farm on Kittitian Hill, a new sustainable […]

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Rio Reward for Mission Hills Golfathon Champion

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An Olympian feat is deserving of an Olympian award. No wonder, therefore, that 12 year-old young golfer Wen Haoran was celebrating after emerging triumphant in the 12th Mission Hills Golfathon Grand Final – one of the most gruelling tests of golf.As a reward for his success, young Wen can now begin thinking about packing his […]

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More Than HK$2 Million Raised at UBS Hong Kong Open Charity Cup

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Hong Kong: This week’s UBS Hong Kong Open Charity Cup will raise a minimum of HK$2.3 million [about US$300,000] for the three local groups chosen as beneficiaries by title sponsor UBS and the tournament’s Official Charity, Friends of Asia Hong Kong. Wednesday’s gathering will be the UBS Hong Kong Open’s inaugural fund-raising event, which is […]

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Jordan Speith mural made of 24k golf balls

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In case you missed it, Jordan Spieth just finished off a rather good season on the PGA Tour. He pocketed $12 million in earnings and another $10 million in bonus money for winning the FedEx Cup, ascended to World No. 1, and captured both the Masters and U.S. Open. Spieth is a household name across the country, but […]

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Industry First Driving Range Competition

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In an Australian golf industry first, three of the country’s top driving range facilities are going head to head in a state vs state driving range competition. Albert Park Driving Range (VIC), Moore Park Golf (NSW) and Wembley Golf (WA) will be competing with each other to see who can secure the most amount of […]

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