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ASIAN GOLF PROFILES, the industry’s first ever research undertaking focused on the Southeast Asian market, is published

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The region’s first and most comprehensive market research is now available. The survey covers a wide-range of data fields (62 data-fields) and for the first time,golf clubs, equipment manufacturers and suppliers and the trade can have access to a body of reliable market intelligence to help them understand trends in the market. Just consider these […]

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Golf club and NRL team set new trend

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If there ever was a perfect marketing marriage, Parkwood International Golf and Function Complex and the National Rugby League’s Gold Coast Titans, have found it – Club Parkwood – home of the Aquis Gold Coast Titans. The two sports giants have signed a unique ten-year partnership agreement that will see the rugby league team relocate to […]

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There are 3,297 golf clubs in the British Isles

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An unprecedented report into the global golf industry that took 25,000 hours to compile has found that there are 3,297 golf clubs in the British Isles. The R&A’s Golf around the world 2015 is the first ever official count into all the golf courses in the world, concluding that there 34,011 golf facilities in 206 […]

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Royal Troon may be ready to allow women members

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Royal Troon, one of three male-only clubs on the British Open rota along with Muirfield and Royal St George’s, may start allowing women members in time for the 2016 championship. “Royal Troon Golf Club announced today it will shortly undertake a comprehensive review to consider the most appropriate membership policy for the future,” it said in a […]

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Famous cricketers switch to golf clubs

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Some of the greatest cricketers in the history of the game will swap their bats for golf clubs at the BMW New Zealand Open when they line up in the inaugural ANZ Celebrity Challenge in Queenstown, from March 12-15. West Indians Sir Viv Richards and Brian Lara, Englishmen Sir Ian Botham and Graeme Swann, Australian […]

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The 12 major golf clubs sold to foreign buyers in 2014

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Wentworth Club, one of the UK’s most famous golfing venues, amazingly became one of just 12 major British golf clubs to be sold to a foreign buyer in 2014. The home of the PGA European Tour, host of the BMW PGA Championship and location for the first ever Ryder Cup was bought by Chinese company […]

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Most golf clubs in Australia are in financial trouble

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Worrying new research on the state of the golf industry in Australia has found that the majority of golf clubs in the country are now in financial trouble. Golf clubs in traditional markets, especially the UK and USA, have struggled through the last few years, although the Republic of Ireland had appeared to post the […]

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