This week the Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro played host to it’s first test event, The Aquece Rio Golf Challenge, and whilst the main PGA Tour players could not be persuaded to attend the one day event, Brazil’s top nine golfers were there to christen the course. Here's the verdict!
After more than a decade of year-on-year steep falls, golf participation and club membership in England has risen in the last year. Has golf turned a corner?
Now we at GolfPunk are not averse to admiring the fairer sex both on and off the golf course but even our eyebrows were raised when we were given the heads up about an event called ‘The Sink the Pink – Big Boy And Bigger Golf Day!
When Donald Trump bought a golf club on Lowes Island for $13 million in 2009, he spent millions more in reconfiguring its two courses. Trump then decided that the course’s history needed a bit of an upgrade as well.
As we feared the 'Covidiots' have spoiled it for the responsible vast majority in the UK and we are not only in lockdown but golf is also out of bounds! England Golf, Scotland Golf, Wales Golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland all confirmed that courses must now shut until further notice.
A Surrey golf club has closed down its golf course and is instead focussing entirely on FootGolf, and it is thought that this is the first time that this has happened in the UK.
This is an ingenious solution to playing golf in the rain!
Golf is entering a new frontier in its history following the merger between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour. The breakaway LIV series stunned the world as several leading players were lured away by the riches of the competition. Although there was resistance between the two organizations, the PGA Tour has now combined with LIV to reunite the sport.
Heritage Golf Club in Mauritius has been named ‘Indian Ocean’s Best Golf Course’ for the second year in a row at the annual World Golf Awards. World Golf Awards serves to celebrate and reward excellence in golf tourism through their annual awards programme, and is part of the World Travel Awards.
A golf club that will be effectively annihilated by the £43 billion high-speed HS2 route is to be given a new state-of-the-art course.
Whether you are cashing in $2 skins for Nassau team junk, two down presses or any other expensive or complicated golf game, playing golf is always a bit more interesting when there’s cash involved.
As the UEFA Champions League continues to build to its climax, golfers across Europe have the opportunity to combine a three-night golf break next month with watching the top quarter-final clash between Benfica and Bayern Munich.
