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Australian Championship Designated as Key Step Toward 2032 Paralympic Golf Inclusion
Golf Australia and the International Golf Federation (IGF) have announced a major milestone for para-golf, designating the 2026 Australian All Abilities Championship as the first IGF Counting Event to operate under the IGF’s new Classification Rules and Sport Classes.
This decision is seen as a direct and significant step toward achieving Paralympic Games inclusion for golf at Brisbane 2032.
IGF Chairman Guy Kinnings confirmed the strategic importance of the designation, stating, "Golf Australia…
PGA CEO to host monthly show on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio
/0 Comments/in Featured /by Live4GolfSiriusXM announced today that Pete Bevacqua, the PGA of America’s Chief Executive Officer, will host a new show on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio (Sirius channel 208, XM channel 93). State of the Game will make its live debut on Wednesday, January 28, at 8 p.m. ET and air monthly throughout the year. Bevacqua and co-host […]
Brooklyn man known as ‘Tiger Hoods’ built mini-golf course out of trash
/0 Comments/in Best Practice, golf industry /by Live4GolfI don’t really need to elaborate on that headline, do I? This New York Times story about a Brooklyn man named Alfred Evans, who built a miniature golf course made out of trash in Brooklyn, is just the greatest. Evans uses anything he can get his hands on to build the holes and the layout, […]
Growing The Game With The USGA
/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Live4GolfGrowing the game of golf has been an initiative of many for quite some time. To echo that idea, Rand Jerris of the USGA joins Lou Holder on The Turn to talk about diversifying the game. Click on picture to read full story and see video.
Famous cricketers switch to golf clubs
/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Live4GolfSome of the greatest cricketers in the history of the game will swap their bats for golf clubs at the BMW New Zealand Open when they line up in the inaugural ANZ Celebrity Challenge in Queenstown, from March 12-15. West Indians Sir Viv Richards and Brian Lara, Englishmen Sir Ian Botham and Graeme Swann, Australian […]
Young golfers snag fun afternoon in Margaret River
/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Live4GolfGOLF could appear dull to some people – but not if they witnessed the SNAG children’s clinic that took place at Margaret River Golf Club on Friday. Children of about five or six years squealed with delight as they ran about the golf course and threw tennis balls at a velcro target. The target happened […]
Is the LPGA Tour going to get to play “Amen Corner”? Yes. Sort of
/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Live4GolfThe LPGA Tour will open its season for the first time at the newly-created Coates Golf Championship in two weeks. It is also believed to be the first time a tribute course will host a major professional tour event.Eight of Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club’s 18 holes are copies of famous holes from around […]
Kenyan golfers think golf is ‘easy’ because of Tiger Woods
/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Live4GolfI read a lot of information and news about golf. Blogs, magazines, newspaper articles and longform stories on the Internet, but nothing this week has intrigued me as much as what Jeff Mwangi told Golf Digest on Friday. Mwangi is also a reader of golf things living in Nairobi, Kenya, and here’s what he wrote […]
King says golf on upswing
/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Live4GolfIn a recent interview on the Golf Channel, Arnold Palmer presented the opinion that claims made by many sports analysts about golf being on the decline are greatly exaggerated. He agrees that the golf’s popularity was down for a couple of years but says all sports go through the same type of cycles. “Think of […]
Golf Channel celebrates 20 years
/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Live4GolfTwenty years ago on Saturday, Arnold Palmer flipped a ceremonial switch to launch a risky venture that cynics saw as an easy punch line. The Golf Channel? Tennis magazine mocked the idea as ”24 hours of chubby guys in bad clothes speaking in jargon that only they understand.” Rick Reilly, in his column for Sports […]
$130k boost for young golfers
/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Live4GolfIN JUST over a year, 16-year-old Leverett Chua has slashed his golf handicap from a respectable 21 to a resounding 0.8. Even better, he was mentored by Singapore’s top professional golfer Mardan Mamat – and he did not have to fork out thousands of dollars in green fees and graphite drivers. The St Gabriel’s Secondary […]