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Terrace Downs resort for sale after owner dies from Covid-19

POSTED ON August 17, 2020 @ 7:28 pm

The luxury Terrace Downs golf resort in Canterbury is for sale after its owner died from Covid-19. Japanese investor Hiroshi Hasegawa bought the resort, near Mt Hutt in Mid-Canterbury, in 2012 after gaining Overseas Investment Office approval. Hasegawa died in Japan on April 22 from …

500 staff to lose their jobs as Bintan Lagoon Resort closes

POSTED ON August 10, 2020 @ 7:04 pm

Riau Island Resort closure Southeast Asia is poised to lose two more golf courses with Bintan Lagoon Resort (BLR) shutting its doors. According to a report in TTG Asia, the 36-hole golfing venue, which is a 75-minute ferry ride from Singapore, has decided to cease …

NZ: Billionaire’s golf tourism vision for Mangawhai region

POSTED ON August 1, 2020 @ 5:21 pm

Build it and they will come. A US billionaire’s plan to build more golf courses in Mangawhai to attract tourists rolls on despite border closures.  A town north of Auckland which is home to around 10,000 residents is set to have four golf courses. Two …

Ravenshoe Millstream CC turned tourist park (QLD)

POSTED ON August 1, 2020 @ 6:49 am

Visiting tourists with an itch for golf will be able to get that and more after the Ravenshoe Millstream Country Club applied for a Material Change of Use at last week’s ordinary Tablelands Regional Council meeting. The motion for the Material Change of Use was …

COUNCIL COMES TO THE AID OF THE MOSSMAN GOLF CLUB

POSTED ON July 28, 2020 @ 5:12 pm

The Douglas Shire Council has come to the aid of the Mossman Golf Course at today’s Ordinary Council Meeting, resolving to purchase the land and lease the operations to the Mossman Bowls Club. The future of the club had been uncertain with current operators, the …

Pacific Coast Design Implement New Ways of Working

POSTED ON July 15, 2020 @ 4:18 pm

Singapore: Months of being prevented from traveling and making site visits has not harmed the business of Pacific Coast Design (PCD), one of the Asia-Pacific’s best-known and most active golf course architectural firms. With industry veterans Phil Ryan and Paul Reeves at the helm, PCD has turned a potential negative …

ASIA: The Gongs Ring True At Laguna Lang Co

POSTED ON June 16, 2020 @ 1:25 pm

New putting layout takes its cues from St Andrews’ legendary Himalayas LANG CO, Vietnam (16 June, 2020) — LAGUNA Golf Lang Co is transporting Scottish golf tradition to Central Vietnam in the shape of The Gongs – its epic new putting course. In St Andrews, …

Australian Golf Centre project cements Victoria as nation‘s golf state

POSTED ON June 11, 2020 @ 3:50 pm

The Victorian Government is getting the ball rolling on creating the new home of golf in Australia, with the demolition of the old clubhouse at the Sandringham Golf Course now underway. The Australian Golf Centre project has been made possible thanks to a $15.3 million …

Muree Golf Club looks to diversify property

POSTED ON June 4, 2020 @ 5:27 pm

A recent Golf Australia report found that slightly more than 50 per cent of Australian golf clubs are under financial stress, with many clubs increasingly facing a raft of financial challenges. Not surprisingly, there was a tendency for the smaller clubs to be the hardest …