The conversation of creating an educational networking forum for the Australian golf industry was started during a trip to San Antonio, Texas, and the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA) annual conference last year. The trajectory began in February 2015 when founders Guy Chapple and Andrew …
Iconic Australian businessman and owner of Hamilton Island and Hamilton Island Golf Course, Bob Oatley, passed away at his Sydney home on Sunday morning, aged 87. The self-made Australian billionaire and successful coffee grower, winemaker and sailor is survived by his wife and two children. After …
After only 18 months the golf tourism initiative has reaped high dividends! When the strategy paper was written in 2013, golf tourism’s benefit to the New Zealand economy was estimated at $210M annually. As of the end of September 2015, the number sits at a …
In 2009, contractors transformed abandoned stone quarries in southwest Beijing into the 54-hole Yintai Hongye Golf Club. The transition wasn’t an easy one. Situated on 165 hectares along the flood basin of the Yongding River, it had become a garbage dumping ground and was plagued …
Gaming tycoon Stanley Ho has emerged as the latest deep-pocketed investor to join the rising tide of investment throughout the Gold Coast, planning a $120 million luxury development at the Palm Meadows golf course. The Macau billionaire and business associate of the Packer family has …
Golf NSW is pleased to announce the following appointments for the 2016 Australian Boys and Girls Junior Championships and Interstate Series to be held in Tasmania during April, and the 2016 Men’s and Women’s Interstate Series to be held in Queensland during May. Three new …
Singapore: Less than a month after parting ways with its Chief Executive Officer, the Asian Tour has appointed four new Non-Player Board Members and announced that Kyi Hla Han will act as ‘interim Tour Commissioner’. The Board shake-up comes amid continuing debate about a proposed …
Australasia’s leading golf industry marketing company Golf Industry Central (GIC) and Golf Managers NZ have struck a partnership where GIC will assist in the ongoing promotion for the 2016 GMA NZ Conference and the Club Managers Association of America (CMAA) certified BMI educational courses being held in New …
The changes to the ways we interact, work and get around are well known – but this disruption to our daily lives has also accelerated the evolution in the way in which Australians participate in sport, recreation and leisure activities. Whilst golf is one of …
