Golfer Minjee Lee on turning pro

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AS a little girl, Minjee Lee would leave motivational messages for herself. “Achieve your goals,” she urged on Post-it notes. “Do your best.” Her mother would find them sticky-taped to a desk in her daughter’s bedroom. “She’d have a little motto and write it down on the desk,” Clara Lee says. “She always had a […]

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NZ Disc Golf Championship goes professional

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B-Tier status means that the event will be the first Professional event in NZ to have a cash prize pool $5000 and prizes. It also means that New Zealand will be Round 3 of the Oceania Tour along with Chinese Taipei and Australia. The announcement has already attracted some of the top professional Disc Golf […]

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Australian golf loses wonderful champion and man

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Golf lost its oldest living major champion when the great Kel Nagle passed away today in Sydney aged 94. He was one of our greatest champions and one of only nine Australians to win one of the game’s four professional major championships. The playing of golf professionally was a much different thing in Nagle’s era. […]

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Jarryd Felton added to Golf Australia squad

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West Australian Jarryd Felton has been rewarded for his excellent form with elevation to the Golf Australia national squad. Felton, 19, of Gosnellls Golf Club in Perth’s southern suburbs, is expected to surge well inside the top 50 of the world amateur golf rankings when they’re updated on Thursday after his impressive showing in the […]

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Royal Troon may be ready to allow women members

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Royal Troon, one of three male-only clubs on the British Open rota along with Muirfield and Royal St George’s, may start allowing women members in time for the 2016 championship. “Royal Troon Golf Club announced today it will shortly undertake a comprehensive review to consider the most appropriate membership policy for the future,” it said in a […]

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Autistic Tampa boy swings to life thanks to golf

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Maverick Steiner has spent most of his five years in and out of the hospital. The Tampa boy was born with Congenital Bone Marrow Transplant Syndrome and needed surgery as a toddler. The bones in his left forearm are joined in an unusual place and he has short, curved pinky fingers. Yet, he wants to […]

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Hong Kong Golf Association Partners with US Kids Golf

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The Hong Kong Golf Association (HKGA) has unveiled US Kids Golf as its Official Supplier of junior golf equipment in a partnership that will focus on bringing new children into the sport in Hong Kong. Ning Li, President of the HKGA said:  “Following the recent launch of our Golf For Schools programme, which already has […]

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Key Says Golf Courses Can Lure Wealthy Tourists to New Zealand

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PrNew Zealand Prime Minister John Key said he’s using the nation’s golf courses to attract big-spending tourists and boost economic growth. “Golf is one thing we’re using” to grow tourism revenue, Key, who is also tourism minister, said in an interview in Davos on Jan. 23. “Because of the beauty and great quality of the […]

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For Olympic Hopefuls, Antidoping Rules Will Be an Adjustment

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After closing with a 62 at the Tournament of Champions this month, Chris Kirk showed up at the site of his next start and learned he had been randomly selected for out-of-competition testing as part of the PGA Tour’s antidoping program. The timing prompted Kirk, tongue in cheek, to post on Twitter: “Like clockwork, tie […]

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Inside China’s Mission Hills Golf Club, the largest golf resort in the world

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China has a complicated relationship with golf. The sport was banned under Mao in the 1940s through the ‘80s for being a millionaires’ hobby. It wasn’t until 1984 that the first golf course in China was even constructed, and then 20 years later in 2004, building new golf courses was banned. Of course, that hasn’t […]

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