10th Faldo Series Asia Season Primed for Taipei Tee-Off

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Sunrise Golf and Country Club will take centre stage when the 10th anniversary season of the Faldo Series Asia tees-off this week. Less than a month after crowning the champions from the 2014-15 campaign, Sir Nick Faldo is eagerly anticipating the commencement of what promises to be a notable milestone in the history of the […]

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Masters winner plans trip back to Australia

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Newly-crowned Masters champion Jordan Spieth says he intends to defend his Australian Open crown in Sydney later this year. Wearing his new green jacket after tying the Masters’ scoring record and winning by four shots, 21-year-old Spieth credited his stunning Australian Open win in November as a major catalyst towards his Augusta National triumph, teaching […]

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The MyGolf program is still continuing to grow.

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There are currently 334 registered MyGolf centres across the country delivering 291 active MyGolf programs to juniors, including 46 school holiday programs and 98 term 2, 2015 programs. Royal Melbourne Golf Club (VIC) has had an astonishing 174 juniors registered into its MyGolf programs since term 1, 2015. They are followed by Sandhurst Golf Club […]

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Tiger Woods’ Kids Make the Cutest Golf Caddies

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The Par 3 event is an annual tradition where pro golfers’ loved ones — family members, friends, significant others — act as their caddies, toting the players’ clubs around for nine holes. Woods, 39, has not participated since 2004, before his kids were born, but they asked to take part in this year’s festivities. Click […]

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10th Anniversary Milestone for Faldo Series Asia‏‏‎

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While former Faldo Series champion Rory McIlroy’s attention is firmly focused on Augusta National, the Far East’s elite amateur golfers are bracing themselves for the launch of the milestone 10th anniversary of the Faldo Series Asia. As McIlroy bids to become just the sixth player in history to complete the Grand Slam of all four […]

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Winner of Fantasy Masters Gets $1 Million Check, No Green Jacket

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The golfer who slips on the champion’s green jacket after the final round of the Masters Tournament won’t be the only person celebrating a $1 million haul. The season’s opening major championship is the first golf event to be the subject of a daily fantasy sports game with a top prize of $1 million. The […]

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Anirban Lahiri Sees Augusta Masters as a Great Chance for Himself and Indian Golf

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Anirban Lahiri has aroused the interest and curiosity of almost the entire golfing world. Hailing from the world’s second most populous nation and coming with a record of four wins in 12 months, two of them in co-sanctioned events, his rise to World No. 34, had led to questions about golf in India, his own […]

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China shutters golf courses, probes officials who play

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Ping-pong diplomacy thawed relations between the United States and China in the 1970s, but don’t expect golf to smooth still tricky ties between the world’s top two economies. Though President Obama enjoys golfing with fellow leaders, his Chinese counterpart will probably steer clear of U.S. fairways during his state visit this September. The ruling Communist […]

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Golf around the globe

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The R&A (Royal and Ancient), recently, released a report titled ‘Golf around the world 2015’. Interesting elements of this report are reproduced and discussed in this column. The preface states, “This unprecedented report reveals the truly global nature of the sport of golf and explores its potential for growth. In addition to establishing the first […]

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One year after a debilitating injury, 14-year-old Abbey Daniel will tee off at Augusta National

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Abbey Daniel will be standing on the 18th green at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday realizing a dream that most golfers never will. Daniel, 14 and an eighth grader at Hannan High, will be competing in the Drive, Chip and Putt championship at Augusta after qualifying through three regional rounds last summer. As an avid golfer, Daniel […]

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