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Kenya – golf, game and so much more

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VI-WHERE? VIPINGO … V I P I N G O Readers may be forgiven if they never heard about Vipingo Ridge, which was until now primarily a golfing resort built for local fans of the game and ready to own a residential property on the estate to give them a permanent base from where to […]

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Stars Show That Golf Can be Child’s Play

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A group of local youngsters were treated to an inspiring look at the game of golf by some of the Ladies European Tour’s leading professionals as they gathered on the sidelines of the US$600,000 World Ladies Championship. Mission Hills Academies professional Jason Wu coaches a youngster during the children’s clinic at the World Ladies Championship. […]

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5 tips for avoiding the blowups in golf (and business)

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The more I learn this game of golf, the more I realize it is just like business and life. In life, you ride the roller coaster of victories and defeats, and with golf you can do that from hole to hole. As I work to bring my handicap down, one of the problems I’m having […]

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Could Placemaking Become the New Golf? Repurposing Obsolete Courses 

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You wouldn’t necessarily notice, not unless you’ve had a particular reason to be paying attention, but the US has way more golf courses than the industry and its enthusiasts can support. Once-flourishing fairways, greens, and clubhouses are being decommissioned all over the place, leaving communities with empty land, sometimes contaminated from years of intensive chemical […]

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Chinese cash and American jobs

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The Chinese are coming! And they’re bringing their golf clubs. Chinese investment in America reached $12 billion last year, according to the Rhodium Group, an economic advisory firm. “Absent political headwinds,” predicts Rhodium, “outbound investment by Chinese firms will continue to boom in 2015 and the United States will remain a key market.” Traditionally, much […]

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Golf’s not just for adults, the elite: NY’s teen golfer in Gurgaon

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Neil Vyas, a teenage golfer from New York, was in Gurgaon to impart golfing tips to underprivileged kids here. Neil Vyas comes to India on an annual basis, but his recent trip was special. The 16-year-old budding golfer, born and brought up in New York, conducted a workshop in Gurgaon to introduce the game of […]

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Golf participation in Australia on the rise according to AGIC

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Golf participation across Australia is on the rise according to new data released by the Australian Golf Industry Council (AGIC). An increase of 7.2 per cent in competition rounds was recorded across Australia in 2014, with every month recording a steady increase compared to the corresponding month in 2013. Competition rounds are defined as single […]

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Golf remains a game of the elite in Iran

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The bumpy fairways and patchy putting surfaces — more burnt-out browns than grassy greens — are not much to look at. In Iran however, this is golf at its finest. Only 3,500 people, around 500 of them women, from a population of 78 million, pick up a club. The size of the sport is reflected […]

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Australians play more golf in 2014

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Golf participation across Australia is on the rise according to new data released by the Australian Golf Industry Council (AGIC). An increase of 7.2 per cent in competition rounds was recorded across Australia in 2014, with every month recording a steady increase compared to the corresponding month in 2013. Competition rounds are defined as single […]

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Golfers play Frostbite Open

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Wearing multiple layers of clothing, topped off by heavy coats, hats and gloves, 45 teams played nine holes of golf on frozen Presque Isle Bay on February 22, the Erie (Pa.) Times-News reported. The annual Joe Root’s Frostbite Open, a fundraiser put on by the Presque Isle Partnership, drew 160 golfers who hit balls over the snow-covered ice. “A […]

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