Niblick Golf Design finishes a five-year renovation project at Stavanger Golf Club in Norway. Key aspects of renovating the 53-year-old course included rebuilding 16 greens, remodeling three fairways and completing extensive re-bunkering throughout. … UgMO reports that Matt Shaffer, superintendent at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa., site of the Walker Cup, Sept. 12-13, is using the company’s wireless underground sensor technology to help keep the course prepared for upcoming biennial matches. … IMG Golf Course Management extends its agreement to provide golf course consulting services to Topwin Golf and Country Club, a private facility that features an Ian Woosnam-designed course and is located north of Beijing, China. The new agreement is a continuation of IMG’s involvement following follows 18 months of pre-opening consulting. The course will open for limited play in September. … Australian Michael Sim earns an immediate promotion to the PGA Tour by winning his third Nationwide Tour event of 2009, the Christmas In October Classic on Sunday. With his promotion, Sim is conditionally exempt on the PGA Tour for the rest of 2009 and fully exempt in 2010.

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