world urban golf day IX

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Urban Golf, Cross Golf, Street Golf. Whatever you choose to call it the sport is growing around the world with new organisations showing up almost daily. Locally a group known as Urban Golf Australia have been tirelessly promoting the sport for the last decade through events, urban challenges and the development of a full range […]

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Golf Australia team coaches Bonville’s best

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BONVILLE Golf Resort has spent one week hosting the Golf Australia high performance training camp. Visitors included current elite Australian representative players from the age of 13 years up, elite professionals including rookie squad members, PGA and LPGA tour members and elite coaches. The camp aims to provide additional resources and data collection via coaching, […]

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Local Junior Wins Thurgoona Open

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Stuart Fraser, Chief Executive Officer Golf NSW, was joined by Greg Aplin MP, Member for Albury, at Thurgoona Country Club & Resort to present the winner of the Murray District Golf Association Thurgoona Open with their invitation to play in the NSW Open. “The Peter Thomson and Mike Wolveridge designed course was at its challenging […]

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Pitch and putt virtually on the world’s best fairways

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The ‘swinging sixties’ saw a golfer in his twenties take the sport by storm. The secret to some of his success lay in his use of yardage guides; the accurate distances contained therein proving to be an advantage. His 312-metre hit in 1963 stayed a hit for over two decades as the longest drive, firmly […]

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MIT’s self-driving golf carts are tourist-friendly, Google’s are wary of people

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Google this week shared the accident record for its self driving car fleet — 16 minor crashes since 2009 — then revealed that many of the errors transpired because the robots found it hard to understand people. The robots followed traffic rules to the letter, but people were less predictable, inching forward at stop lights when waiting their […]

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The Thailand Golf Travel Mart has been a landmark golfing event

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The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) in cooperation with the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO) hosted golf tour operators and buyers from key markets worldwide to connect with suppliers from all of Thailand’s golf destinations. The Petchaburi and Prachuap Khirikhan Golf Course Association was another main participant to ensure that local golf courses […]

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Footgolf a new spin on golf

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It’s golf for the soccer fan, one soccer ball, nine holes, no golf club. Footgolf is a combination of  soccer and golf, played on a traditional golf course with basic golf rules. People kick a football rather than hit a golf ball into a large hole. The player who kicks the ball into the hole […]

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Mission-St Andrews Fundraising Championship Embraces China`s Golf Future

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Dongguan, China—: China’s golfing future came into sharp focus at the third edition of the Mission Hills–St Andrews: Home to Home Scholarship Fundraising Championship. Underlining Mission Hills’ commitment to grow the game, the event was inaugurated in 2013 when St Andrews University was celebrating its 600th anniversary. The aim of the annual gathering remains to […]

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Tasmania’s golf croquet team hatches national championships plan at Government House

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Tasmania’s state golf croquet team has taken to the green at Government House to practise ahead of the national championships being played in the state next month. It is the first time Tasmania has hosted the championships, and while the local team is accustomed to placing sixth out of six, they are eyeing off the […]

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Young Australian golfers set for bright futures in Europe thanks to new partnership

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VICTORIAN pro Ryan Lynch has boldly predicted that more aspiring Australian golfers will see their future in Europe rather than the US because of a shrewd new partnership. The first-time co-sanctioning of the Australian PGA with the European Tour has created a huge December springboard on the Gold Coast for young players chasing a break […]

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