Golfing Magazine: Selects Tifosi Optics’ Podium frameless eyewear as its product of the week for June 18-24.
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University of Alabama Freshman Justin Thomas Wins 2012 Haskins Award
Golfweek: Announces University of Alabama freshman Justin Thomas as the winner of the 2012 Haskins Award, an honor given to the nation’s top collegiate golfer. The award is sponsored in part by the magazine.
Starting Time Announces Anniversary Of My Mini Golf Program
Starting Time: Announces the second anniversary of its My Mini Golf program in the United States and Canada. The game is a crossover between golf and miniature golf and can be played on a variety of surfaces.
Royal Troon (Troon, Scotland): Selected by the R&A to host the 145th Open Championship in 2016. It will be the ninth time that the championship has been contested on the links, most recently in 2004 when Todd Hamilton defeated Ernie Els in a playoff.
LPGA Player Na Yeon Choi Signs With Srixon®
Srixon: Signs Na Yeon Choi to an endorsement contract. Choi won a Korean Ladies Professional Golf Tour event in 2004 as an amateur and joined the LPGA in 2008. She won the LPGA money title in 2010.
FitGolf Performance Centers, The Golf Fitness Experts offered a Stretch Tent Service at Bala Golf Club's Member/Guest.
FitGolf Performance Centers: Reports on its stretch tent service at Bala Golf Club.
Federal Circuit Affirms Judgment that TaylorMade Golf's r7 and R9 Golf Clubs Do Not Infringe Dogleg Right's Patents
TaylorMade Golf: Reports that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment that the company’s r7 and R9 clubs do not infringe Dogleg Right patents.
International Golfers Compete for LPGA Card at Michigan's Sweetgrass Golf Club
Sweetgrass Golf Club (Harris, Mich.): To host the Symetra Tour’s second Island Resort Championship, June 29-July 1. The 54-hole stroke-play event has drawn players from 25 different countries and six continents to vie for a $110,000 purse.
China's Mission Hills Announces All-Star Line-up for October's World Celebrity Pro-Am at Mission Hills Haikou
Mission Hills Group: Announces a list of international superstars from the worlds of sport, golf and entertainment who will play in the World Celebrity Pro-Am, Oct. 18-21 at Mission Hills in Haikou, China. The list includes former NBA star Yao Ming, Brazilian soccer player Ronaldo, Chinese gymnast and international businessman Li Ning, and past Masters champion Ian Woosnam.
American Golfer Raves About TEF TEE™ in Performance Tee Review
Tef Tee: Reports on the performance of its tee, which features a Teflon-coated head.
SKLZ Introduces SimSTIX™ True-Feel Golf Club for Sony Move
SKLZ: Introduces the SKLZ SimStix true-feel golf club for the Sony PlayStation Move to provide a more realistic golf gaming experience.
Tifosi Optics Podium Frameless Eyewear named Golfing Magazine's "Product of the Week" for week of June 18th
Golfing Magazine: Selects Tifosi Optics’ Podium frameless eyewear as its product of the week for June 18-24.
Inspiring Performance
Titleist: Pro V1x ball and full complement of equipment played by Webb Simpson en route to winning the U.S. Open. Simpson played the 909D3 driver, 910F fairway metals, 910H hybrid, 680 MB irons and Vokey Design TVD sand and lob wedges.
FitGolf Performance Centers, The Golf Fitness Experts offered a Stretch Tent Service at Green Valley Country Club for a third time this year.
FitGolf Performance Centers: Reports on its pre-round stretch tent service.
Ritson-Sole Golf School Opens A New South Carolina Location At Grande Dunes Resort, Joining Long-Established Home At Pawleys Plantation
Ritson-Sole Golf School: Opens a new location at the Grande Dunes Resort Club in central Myrtle Beach, S.C. The original Ritson-Sole school opened in 1991 at Pawleys Plantation Golf and Country Club.
The Saint Andrew’s Golf Club to Support The First Tee of Metropolitan New York Through 125th Anniversary Gala Celebration
Saint Andrew’s Golf Club (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.): To commemorate 125 years of golf in America with a gala evening on June 8, 2013 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. All net proceeds from the event will benefit The First Tee of Metropolitan New York. The club is the oldest in the country, dating back to 1888, and one of the five founding member clubs of the United States Golf Association.
CourseTrends chosen by 3 new clients to provide their website, email marketing and e-commerce solutions…
CourseTrends: To design and host the websites for Twin Lakes Village Golf Club in Rathdrum, Idaho, Devil’s Thumb Golf Club in Delta, Colo., and Braintree Municipal Golf Course in Braintree, Mass.
GBN’s Instructor Division Becomes Proponent Group
Golf Business Network: Reaches an agreement with Lorin Anderson, executive director of GBN’s Instructor Division, allowing for Anderson’s purchase of assets within GBN’s interest in the company’s Instructor Division Class. Effective immediately, the former Instructor Division will be known as Proponent Group and relocated to new headquarters in Heathrow, Fla.
Time For Asia To Invest In Growing The Game Of Golf!
Asia Pacific Golf Summit: To offer a panel discussion, “Invest in the Future of Golf,” which will focus on growing the game and feature speakers Terrence Anton, co-founder and president of SNAG Golf; Tony Meechai, president of Tony Meechai Golf Academy; and Brian Mogg, president, Brian Mogg Performance Centre.
Golf Heavyweights Join Forces To Promote Golf!
Asia Pacific Golf Group: Announces its support of Golf in a Kingdom, a destination marketing initiative started in 2009 to promote and raise the awareness of golf in Thailand.
