Turf Management XI: Seminar at Indonesia August 2 to 4
We did not simply talk about wanting to bring education to the local level. We got on down to doing it!
In support of the Asosiasi Superintendent Padang Golf Indonesia, the AGIF was proud to present the Turf Management XI: Seminar at Indonesia from 2 to 4 August at the Emeralda Golf Club.
Grow-the-Game Let's Go Golf: Grant to popularise golf in Vietnam goes to Montgomerie Links
For Immediate Release: AGIF congratulates Montgomerie Links for winning the USD$10,000 grant to promote participation in the game of golf across all socioeconomic strata in the Central Coast region of Vietnam. An initiative led by Committee Chairman Mark Adams and endorsed by the Vietnam Golf Association, golf courses and driving ranges in Vietnam were invited to submit their bids earlier in the year for AGIF's consideration.
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Registration is now open for the March 8 to 10 Sustainable Turfgrass Management In Asia 2010 conference./This educational event is supported by The R&A and is organized by ATC and the Thai GCSA on behalf of the Thailand Golf Association.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (January 4): Schmidt-Curley Design -- one of the world's busiest and most innovative golf course design firms -- announces Dragon Valley, its second golf course design on China's Hainan Island, is open for play.
MAUMEE, OHIO (December 22): Express Golf, a state-of-the-art indoor golf facility that recently opened in Hong Kong, has chosen the PGA TOUR Simulator by aboutGolf, a Maumee, Ohio-based company, as its exclusive game-improvement golf simulator technology.
Singapore (December 4): The World Golf Foundation recently re-launched its web site, and is asking golfers around the world to help in identifying key statistics local to every country in the world. The focus of the re-launch is on adding golf information from around the world, which the WGF says will be an ongoing process.
BEIJING (December 2): Hundreds of illegal golf courses have been built in China since a moratorium imposed to save farmland, and authorities are vowing harsh punishment for those responsible, state media said Tuesday.
Golf courses have mushroomed across China as the sport has boomed and a notice Tuesday from the land ministry said authorities had launched a survey as they seek to determine how many were built since the 2004 moratorium.
Singapore (November 17): After months of planning and working out all of the technical hurdles in delivering large-scale video streaming, Asian Golf TV has been successfully launched globally!
This revolutionary television broadcast service via the Internet is a trail-blazing undertaking designed to bring news from all fronts of golf in the Asia Pacific to a worldwide audience.
Shanghai, (November 13): One is a winner of nine Major championships, nine Champions Tour Majors and one of only five men to win the career Grand Slam; the other an actor, action choreographer, filmmaker, comedian and producer. Gary Player and Jackie Chan are both internationally celebrated; tenacious competitors with never-say-die attitudes and never shy to express their opinions on any number subjects.
Dallas (November 11):For most golfers, pin placement decisions might seem like a random process that golf and green industry professionals pull out of thin air. But, for these industry professionals, pin placement is a science that can save courses thousands of dollars in labor expenses in regards to green maintenance and repair.
Kuala Lumpur (October 30): Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player produced rousing peformances to bring down the curtain on the third edition of the Asia Pacific Golf Summit (APGS).
Delivering keynote addresses at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre, Nicklaus and Player, two of the game's most legendary figures, wowed the audience, comprised of more than 500 movers and shakers from the global golfing industry.
Singapore (October 19): With just one week to go before the staging of the 2009 Asia Pacific Golf Summit, the organisers of the event report record delegate attendance.
"We had originally planned for some 300 international delegates but we have already gone screaming past the 500 attendance mark," declared Mike Sebastian, managing director of the Asia Pacific Golf Development Conferences Pte Ltd, the owner and producer of the Summit.
