Singapore – IMG Golf Course Management has been appointed to provide Pre-Opening Technical Services and Operational Consulting to Lan Hai Golf Club, a new 36 hole project currently under construction, on Chongming Island, Shanghai, China. The golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus will be the centerpiece of a world class golf development that will also […]
(AP) Brian Gay was in a faraway land, knowing only where he wanted to go without any assurances he would get there. It was approaching midnight in India, and the shuttle bus to the hotel was already full. Gay hopped into a cab with his bride of two weeks and two other men he had […]
The Asian Amateur Championship, a new golfing competition supported in part by the Masters Tournament in Augusta, begins this week. The Masters Tournament in Augusta and the Royal and Ancient Club at St. Andrews in Scotland, is preparing for the Asian Amateur Championship. (Photo by Mary Ellen Cheatham)The Masters, along with the Royal and Ancient […]
Visually impaired golfers from Hong Kong turned up in full force for the National Council for the Blind Malaysia (NCBM) blind golf tournament at the Bukit Jalil Golf and Country Resort recently. The visitors came with a strong contingent of 13 participants and three officials for the inaugural meet held in conjunction with International White […]
World number four Paul Casey and the man one place below him in the rankings, Lee Westwood, have been confirmed for next month’s UBS Hong Kong Open. Casey and Westwood will be joined in the $2.5-million-dollar showpiece, to be played at the Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling, by Ian Poulter and Ireland’s Darren Clarke. […]
Hong Kong golf insiders reveal their favourite local destinations. JON WALL, travel editor of Prestige Hong Kong magazine, has been resident for 22 years and has lived for the past 12 on Lantau, Hong Kong’s biggest island and certainly one of its greenest and least populated areas. Setting a pattern for many of the insiders […]
Full Swing Golf Asia is pleased to confirm that the Hong Kong Country Club has installed the latest specification Full Swing Golf simulator at their country club near to Ocean Park on the edge of the beautiful Deep Water Bay area. This exclusive private club of around 10,000 members is situated next door to the […]
Hong Kong – A golf course worker was killed when a buggy overturned in Hong Kong, police said Tuesday. The 62-year-old worker died when the low-speed buggy rolled over after a colleague lost control of it going down down a slope and rolled over on Hong Kong’s Kau Sai Chau public golf course Monday. Two […]
UBS HONG KONG OPEN BECKONS ONCE MORE Hong Kong, August 25, 2009 – Sports PR specialists Two Up Front have been appointed to provide international media and public relations services for the UBS Hong Kong Open golf championship for the sixth year in a row. The Hong Kong-based company will again be heavily involved when […]
Yogi Berra’s quip, “It ain’t over till it’s over,” would have fit nicely into the context of what was stretched out before me. With a wide inlet from the South China Sea looming large to my left and a breeze blowing from the ocean across the cavernous gully in front of me, the task at […]