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New Zealand Open Challenge Week: 101 clubs signed up

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New Zealand Open Challenge Week: 101 clubs signed up A total of 101 golf clubs from all over the country have signed up for the inaugural BMW ISPS Handa New Zealand Open Challenge Week. The challenge week starts today Monday November 30 and runs until Monday December 6 at golf clubs as part of their […]

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Pro-golf help now on hand

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Golf professional Toni Batey is full of energy and enthusiasm for teaching both golf and swimming and hopes to pass on this enthusiasm to as many people as possible. She has been a golf professional for 25 years, travelling to South Island golf clubs teaching to all ages. In that time she also spent 11 […]

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‘Little Lydia’ keen to follow Ko

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Child golfing sensation Bohyun Park has been identified as an “emerging talent” and a potential New Zealand representative by New Zealand Golf’s national selection panel. In February, the 12-year-old became the youngest player to have ever played in the New Zealand Women’s Golf Open. NZ Golf has invited the Korean-born Wentworth College student to a […]

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Golf expanding tourism market

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A rapidly growing international golf tourism market should bring benefits to Otago, with courses in Central Otago and Dunedin being given a push by Tourism New Zealand. The man behind selling New Zealand golf courses to overseas tourists says while ”marquee courses” like Jacks Point, The Hills and Millbrook are important stops for visitors, it […]

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Māori golfers display skills at National tournament

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Taupō displayed some of their best weather this week. These Maori golfers also displayed some of the best golf at this weeks NZ Maori tournament. Golfers from the age of 9 to over 80 year old golfers were on the green today, some were here to support the kaupapa, while others were here for business. Teina […]

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Warne leads the field as cricket’s greats swap the bat for golf clubs

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Former Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting took his plus 1 handicap across the ditch this week to compete in the Celebrity Challenge section of the New Zealand golf Open in Queenstown. With the rest of the cricket world in World Cup mode, Ponting is the best golfer of the 10 international cricketers in the Challenge, […]

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IOC ‘surprise’ at Rio mayor golf course criticism Yahoo New Zealand Sport

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International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach voiced dismay on Wednesday at criticism of the golf course for the 2016 Rio Games by the city’s mayor. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes told O Globo newspaper Tuesday he would have preferred the course never to have been built. “I hate to have to done this course, if it […]

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Twelve-year-old qualifies for the New Zealand Open

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It’s hard not to draw comparisons between Auckland golfer Bohyun Park and world No 1 Lydia Ko. Both will play in this week’s New Zealand Open after Park qualified in Christchurch yesterday. At the ripe old age of 12, Park is an up-and-coming superstar golfer and she’s coached by Ko’s former mentor Guy Wilson. To […]

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NZ Disc Golf Championship goes professional

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B-Tier status means that the event will be the first Professional event in NZ to have a cash prize pool $5000 and prizes. It also means that New Zealand will be Round 3 of the Oceania Tour along with Chinese Taipei and Australia. The announcement has already attracted some of the top professional Disc Golf […]

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Key Says Golf Courses Can Lure Wealthy Tourists to New Zealand

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PrNew Zealand Prime Minister John Key said he’s using the nation’s golf courses to attract big-spending tourists and boost economic growth. “Golf is one thing we’re using” to grow tourism revenue, Key, who is also tourism minister, said in an interview in Davos on Jan. 23. “Because of the beauty and great quality of the […]

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