Golf With Night Vision Goggles and Guide Latest Luxury Hotel Offering

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In what might be a first, one luxury hotel is offering guests the opportunity to not only golf at night, but, with the help of night vision goggles, observe the wildlife not seen in the light of day. Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo in Guanacaste limits the availability on its eco-friendly course […]

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Grow The Game Central launches first grant offering

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To show our support of the national program PlayGolf Week that is happening in Australia 17-23 November 2014, Grow The Game Central is offering an AU$500 grant to one initiative in Australia. (T/C apply) Grow the Game Central was launched in September 2014 with an aim to create a world-wide community of like-minded people banding together […]

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The Jack Newton Celebrity Classic

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Celebrity players set to descend on the Hunter Valley 15 – 17 December 2014 @ Cypress Lakes Resort by Oaks Hotels and Resorts Five weeks from today, over 200 golfers will arrive in the NSW Hunter Valley to take a coveted spot in an event they wait for all year, The Jack Newton Celebrity Classic. […]

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US GolfTEC coaching firm seeks $6m in Australia

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JOHN STENSHOLT A United States golf coaching company is trying to raise $6 million from ­Australian investors to fund 30 new indoor coaching and instruction centres around the country. Privately owned GolfTEC, which has 190 coaching centres in the US, Canada, Japan and Korea, is expanding into Australia via a joint venture with the locally-owned Golftec […]

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Setting a course for life: For Bob York, golf is all about the kids

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KINGSPORT — For Bob York, golf is all about the kids. The Colonial Heights Middle School golf team in particular. Eleven years ago, York noticed middle school golf scores in the newspaper, but never saw anything from Colonial Heights Middle School. “My grandson Nick was playing golf but Colonial Heights didn’t have a team,” York […]

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‘The Opportunity to Grow Golf, Youth Participation’

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A new video highlighting how golf clubs can successfully engage young people in golf received its first public viewing at the 2014 European Golf Business Conference in Barcelona this week. The video is the first in a series of short documentaries produced by Syngenta to support its ongoing market research into youth and female participation […]

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Crown Golf Scores FootGolf Hat-Trick

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The M3 corridor west of London now has its first FootGolf course, after the October opening of a new attraction at Sunbury Golf Centre. Sunbury, a 27-hole ‘pay-and-play’ golf centre located close to M3 Junction 1 between Sunbury-on-Thames and Shepperton, has created a permanent, full-length 18-hole FootGolf course around its existing 9-hole short course. At […]

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Phil Mickelson makes a recruiting call to a young golfer in Australia

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Ryan Ruffels was standing on the practice green in Australia on Wednesday when his phone rang. The 16-year-old high school junior pulled out his phone and answered it. “Hey,” the voice on the other end of the line said, “it’s Phil Mickelson.” Yes, it was Phil Mickelson – the Phil Mickelson, who called Ruffels to […]

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Golf is NOT dead

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I play a dying sport and don’t even know it? Hmmm. This is the sort of silliness one hears periodically. Truth is, golf is fine. What really happened is that the Tiger Woods boom era came to an end, as it inevitably would. The economic collapse did not help. There is no doubt that course […]

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Patrick Reed in hot water over foul-mouthed rant in China

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Golf can be a frustrating game — just ask Patrick Reed. The 24-year-old could be in trouble with golf’s authorities after a foul-mouthed reaction to a missed putt during the WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai. Reed, who starred for America during its recent Ryder Cup defeat to Europe, was caught on camera swearing and using […]

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