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China targets golf, ‘sport for millionaires’

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HONG KONG President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on vice and corruption in China has gone after drugs, gambling, prostitution, ill-gotten wealth and overflowing banquet tables. Now it has turned to a less obvious target: golf. In a flurry of recent reports, state-run news outlets have depicted the sport as yet another temptation that has led Communist […]

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Stars Show That Golf Can be Child’s Play

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A group of local youngsters were treated to an inspiring look at the game of golf by some of the Ladies European Tour’s leading professionals as they gathered on the sidelines of the US$600,000 World Ladies Championship. Mission Hills Academies professional Jason Wu coaches a youngster during the children’s clinic at the World Ladies Championship. […]

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Boost for golf tourism

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WHILE organisers of Fiji’s biggest professional golf tournament are gearing up for this year’s event in October, stakeholders in the tourism industry say the tournament continues to attract a large number of tourists. Rosie Holidays general manager Eroni Puamau said they had seen increased bookings from Chinese golfers following the broadcast of the Fiji International […]

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A Chinese Tiger Woods?

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Chinaʼs golfing prodigies have burst on to the world golfing scene, showing just how far the sport has come. In 2013, while most Chinese teenagers would have been busy studying for the countryʼs seemingly endless conveyor belt of exams, the then 14-year-old Guan Tianlang was working towards something a bit different—his debut appearance at the […]

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Asian Countries Rising, Says World Golf Report

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Orlando, United States: Japan and South Korea are the world’s second and third largest golf markets while China (including Hong Kong and Macau) is the sixth largest golf equipment market. Those are among the findings in the World Golf Report 2015, produced by two of the industry’s leading independent research and data firms, Golf Datatech, […]

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Inside China’s Mission Hills Golf Club, the largest golf resort in the world

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China has a complicated relationship with golf. The sport was banned under Mao in the 1940s through the ‘80s for being a millionaires’ hobby. It wasn’t until 1984 that the first golf course in China was even constructed, and then 20 years later in 2004, building new golf courses was banned. Of course, that hasn’t […]

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Golf in China can reportedly cost up to a month’s wages – CBSSports.com

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I’m just like you — I loathe paying a big chunk of money for four hours worth of golf that I’m likely not going to enjoy regardless of my score. Oh, I’ll delight in the company of my friends, but not in regards to hitting the little white pill. But it could be worse. That’s […]

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The Boom and Bust of Golf in China

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Golf was once regarded as a bourgeois pastime and it was banned for many years in China. But in recent years the game has seen a soar in popularity, as China’s new elite are gradually taking up the game in record numbers. Statistics indicate that China’s golf lovers have reached over one million. While behind […]

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Golf in China gets stronger, with a reservoir of talent and a new tour pushing the game along

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SHANGHAI –  The graceful movement was enough to get the full attention of Adam Scott, who knows a good golf swing when he sees one. Scott only remembers her name as Tina. She was one of several Chinese juniors afforded a chance to play with the pros for one hole on the eve of the […]

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