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Waste Management Phoenix Open’s milestone third-year certification

POSTED ON January 31, 2020 @ 5:16 pm

The 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open (WMPO) has been awarded GEO Certified® Tournament status, becoming the first event to reach this achievement for three years in a row. The certification is an internationally recognized award for sustainability in golf, administered by Scotland-based GEO Foundation (GEO). …

Major milestone for golf in the Netherlands

POSTED ON January 30, 2020 @ 5:08 pm

At the Sportive Connect conference on Thursday 23 January in Amsterdam, the Dutch sports sector made an important step in its contribution to the climate agreement by signing the Sustainable Sports Roadmap. The conference also recognised a milestone in the field of sustainable sport – …

World’s Largest Golf Library to be Created in St Andrews

POSTED ON January 26, 2020 @ 10:15 am

Renowned golf book collector and IMG vice-chairman Alastair Johnston has gifted his extensive library to The R&A in St Andrews to establish the world’s largest, most comprehensive collection of golf books, which will be named the Alastair J Johnston Library. Johnston has amassed nearly 30,000 …

Greg Norman Partners with American Australian Association to Launch Bushfire Relief Fund

POSTED ON January 16, 2020 @ 11:18 am

Shark Shootout Charities and Presidents Cup International Team Pledge $500,000 West Palm Beach, Fla. (January 14, 2020) – Greg Norman announced a partnership with the American Australian Association to launch a Bushfire Relief Fund in response to the devastating wildfires across the country wherein 100% of the proceeds …

Two in five golfers play MORE golf after a hip operation

POSTED ON December 21, 2019 @ 3:48 pm

Two in five golfers play more golf after undergoing joint replacements and almost 90 per cent continue to play the same amount of golf after the operation, according to stunning new research. These are the findings of a survey carried out by Europe’s largest online …

How Women Can Multiply Junior Golf Membership

POSTED ON November 30, 2019 @ 8:46 am

Syngenta’s global golf market research has revealed that attracting more younger women to golf could also be the key to significantly growing the number of junior golfers. The research reveals a ‘female-junior multiplier effect’, meaning that for every 100 new players, new female golfers will …

Golf Saudi Summit: Major new golf business event announced

POSTED ON November 9, 2019 @ 9:58 am

Yesterday saw the announcement of an all-new global golf business event, the Golf Saudi Summit, that will bring together captains of industry and national leaders to debate hot topics and modern development tactics at the Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers from 2-4 February …

Australia among first to roll out world handicap system in 2020

POSTED ON November 5, 2019 @ 5:22 pm

The World Handicap System (WHS) is ready to be launched from January 2020 and will provide golfers with a unified and more inclusive handicapping system for the first time. Though many countries are planning to adopt the new system in January, the system will go …