According to a report titled “Global Golf Industry, Participation and Growth Forecast” which provides a comprehensive analysis on the golf industry in the US, Europe and Asia. Worldwide golf sport and equipments/supplies industry is highly fragmented with largest contribution coming from the US, Japan and some of the European countries. Golf industry has a large …

The report titled “Global Golf Industry, Participation and Growth Forecast” highlights the above mentioned fact along with the detailed analysis of the various aspects of the golf industry in the US, Europe and Asia, golf course revenues, equipment supplies, rounds played and number of golfers. Worldwide golf sport and equipments/supplies industry is highly fragmented with …

Hank Haney, one of the world’s most highly acclaimed golf instructors, has teamed up with Danish golf manufacturer, Garia. Garia, manufacturer of the first luxury golf car on the market, has entered into a relationship with Hank Haney who will integrate the Garia golf car into his professional and personal life. The Garia will be …

"Being one of the best golf clubs offering wide golf courses, Halfpenny Green now offers unique automated teeing system in golf driving range. We have the perfect golf courses providing fantastic views of Staffordshire hills. This course is a 9-hole par 34 Golf Course set over 2711 yards and open for players as well as …

September 14 marked the 90th day the temperature has reached 90 degrees in Atlanta this summer. Ralph Kepple, GCSAA certified golf course superintendent at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, is comfortable in that heat because the warm-season turfgrasses installed at East Lake in 2008 thrive in those conditions, providing a prime playing surface for …

Scott Pavalko, GCSAA member golf course superintendent at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club in Lemont, Ill., has piloted the No. 4 course, Dubsdread, through a challenging summer of sustained high humidity and temperatures, to produce quality course conditions for the BMW Championship, the third event of the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedExCup, Sept. …

For the first time since TPC Boston began hosting the PGA Tour’s Deutsche Bank Championship in 2003, there have been no changes made to the course this year. “As much as I enjoyed those projects it’s been nice to just focus on maintenance this year instead of grow-ins,” said Brodeur, who has been the GCSAA …

"Providing best golf courses and clubhouse golf, Halfpenny green is counted among the most preferred golf clubs in UK. This course is a 9-hole par 34 Golf Course set over 2711 yards and open for players as well as payers. Facilitating attractive sceneries, our newly built clubhouse golf offers spacious room and caters for up …

Travis Pauley, GCSAA Class A golf course superintendent at Plainfield Country Club in Edison, N.J., is hoping to catch a break from Mother Nature for The Barclays, the first event of the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedExCup, Aug. 25-28. "This year has been especially difficult in the Northeast,” said GCSAA Certified Golf Course Superintendent …

Golf Course Superintendents Association of America member Zach Reineking, the superintendent at Erin Hills Golf Course, is preparing a fast, firm test for the U.S. Amateur Championship Aug. 22-28 in Hartford, Wis. "We had a miserable stretch of weather the first two weeks of August with high heat and humidity," Reineking said. "Fine fescue hates …

A rainy spring followed by a very hot and humid July were not exactly what GCSAA Certified Golf Course Superintendent Joe Alonzi was hoping for when he re-grassed the mostly Poa annua greens with A1/A4 bentgrass at Westchester Country Club in October. "It's been challenging," said Alonzi, a 36-year GCSAA member who has been at …

Wyboston Lakes Golf Centre is holding free golf ‘taster’ sessions in August for people who have never tried golf but want to get the flavour of the game. Participants will receive expert tuition from Wyboston’s golf professional who will teach them how to hit long shots on the driving range and then move to the …

The weather in Atlanta is hot, and the turfgrass at Atlanta Athletic Club loves it. "It's just a pleasure having all warm-season grasses so that we don't have to worry about heat," said GCSAA Certified Golf Course Superintendent Ken Mangum, Atlanta Athletic Club director of golf courses and grounds. "All we have to worry about …

Multiple PGA TOUR winner and renowned golf course designer Peter Jacobsen has been selected to receive the 2012 Old Tom Morris Award by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA). The award will be presented during the 2012 GCSAA Education Conference at Celebrate GCSAA! presented by Syngenta, Feb. 28 in Las Vegas. "Peter has …

Steve Anderson, GCSAA certified golf course superintendent at the Inverness Club, has the golf course fast and firm for the U.S. Senior Open Championship July 28-31 in Toledo, Ohio.   “It was the second-driest June in recorded history and we’ve had record heat advance week,” said Anderson, a 17-year GCSAA member. “We’ve done a lot …

Cape Town – Ian Poulter can be spotted well before his competitors on the golf course thanks to his distinct style and dreams. Back in 2003, Ian started sketching designs onto hotel and airline coasters before turning these rough sketches into IJP Design in July 2007. And for the first time, IJP Design are now …

Cape Town – Ian Poulter may not have had the most successful Open 2011 but his golf clothing label, IJP Design(Ian James Poulter ) is now available in South Africa through Labeled British, exclusive importers of the IJP brand. Ian’s distinct and eye catching clothing is entirely focused on creating clothing which is highly functional …

GCSAA Certified Golf Course Superintendent Fred Dickman, director of golf course maintenance at The Broadmoor Resort, has the East Course fast and firm for the U.S. Women’s Open Championship July 7-10 in Colorado Springs, Colo. “It’s been very hot and dry,” said Dickman, a 25-year GCSAA member. “It has been 10 to 15 degrees above …

June 17, 2011 Contact: Shannon Rose, Eclectic Media Productions (347) 92-STARS or (347) 927-8277, Email: info@mediaproductions.tv Darryl Strawberry Tees Off Against Autism (East Meadow, NY) – Baseball Legend Darryl Strawberry, already a devoted warrior in the fight against autism, announces another exciting chapter in his fund-raising crusade. The world-famous \\\”Straw\\\” is gearing up for the …

Despite record rainfall in April and May, GCSAA Class A Golf Course Superintendent Rick Slattery has Locust Hill Country Club playing as fast and firm as it ever has for the LPGA Championship presented by Wegmans June 23-26 in the Rochester, N.Y., suburb of Pittsford. “We received 6 inches above normal rainfall in April and …

Osbaston, England (Your-Story.org) June 13, 2011 – The 2011 US Open is the second golf major tournament of the year and the 2011 tournament takes place at the Congressional Country Club The 2011 US Open dates are 16 June – 19 June and will feature the world’s best players, although Tiger Woods will be absent …

Tuesday 14th June – Punters might be keen to back the world’s three top-ranked golfers – Luke Donald, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer – all to finish in the top ten as they prepare to tee off in the same group together at the US Open, offered at 14/1 with Boylesports. The firm also go 7/2 …

Michael Giuffre, Golf Course Superintendents Association of America Class A director of golf course maintenance at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., has the Blue Course fast and firm for the U.S. Open June 16-19. “It’s been a little warmer than our cool-season grasses would prefer the last few days,” said Giuffre, who is hand …

The 62nd Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) National Championship and Golf Classic presented in partnership with The Toro Co., will be conducted Feb. 24-26, 2012, in Palm Springs, Calif. It will take place at five courses among PGA West, LaQuinta Resort, and Desert Willow Golf Resort. An expected 400 GCSAA members will gather …

Roger Meier, GCSAA Class A golf course superintendent at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., has the golf course in great shape for the PGA of America’s Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid, May 26-29. “We finally got the rain moved out of here after being inundated early this spring,” said Meier, who is in …

GCSAA certified golf course superintendent Tom Vlach, director of golf course operations at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., has The Players Stadium Course primed for the PGA Tour’s Players Championship, May 12-15. “We closed The Player’s Stadium Course to regular play April 18 for final preparations leading into the three weeks prior to …

Jim Simmons has removed 3,000 trees over the last 18 months in a campaign to improve growing conditions at Shoal Creek Golf Club. The turfgrass was competing for sunlight, air movement, water and nutrients. So losing another 25 trees in a storm last week won’t change the way the course plays this week for the …

Fairway Charity Golf Open confirms FremantleMedia Enterprises and CalvinAyre.com as strategic sponsors. London, UK, April 30, 2011 — The Fairway Charity Golf Open ( http://www.fairwaycasino.com/press-releases ) has today confirmed that FremantleMedia Enterprises, ( http://www.fremantlemedia.com/enterprises.aspx ) the brand extension arm of FremantleMedia, will play a major role as a lead sponsor in the charity golf open, …

Golf Fee Card International®, for 18 years the tailor made service and savings card for travelling golfers, is the new partner of the German golfer Caroline Masson. Caroline Masson has started into her second season as tour professional with the Ladies European Tour (LET). As one of the best German golfers she will be playing …

Snow, ice and freezing temperatures in early February wreaked havoc on Super Bowl festivities in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, but chances are the lingering effects will affect the golf industry this spring and summer. “Bermudagrass in the metroplex and North Texas region is susceptible to damage from the unusual weather we had the first week …