2011年2月26日星期六

Farrington five in England squads

Farrington five in England squads

The three boys are also part of the Writhlington/Farrington Golf Academy, where they spend four afternoons per week practicing and receiving intensive coaching.Click here for more.They will all achieve a BTEC in Sport as well as an NVQ history of golf in Advanced Apprentice in Sporting Excellence. Chivers and five others young golfers hope to join them on the course next year.Completing the Farrington quintet is director of golf Jon Cowgill, who has been named as an England Golf Union regional coach and will train some of the best young juniors in the South West alongside Cumberwell Park's John Jacobs.Cowgill played for England Schoolboys and England U21s as a youngster and was delighted to be appointed."To have five from Farrington selected to represent England is a great achievement," he said."It highlights the opportunities available to Indoor Golf Game young golfers here, as well as the great facilities open to them."The Writhlington School/Farrington Golf Academy is really becoming a breeding ground for young talent and is going from strength to strength."For more information on the Writhlington Golf Academy, contact Paul Comber, head of PE at Writhlington School.

2011年2月25日星期五

Blue Sky thinking takes off

Blue Sky thinking takes off

MULTI-MILLION regeneration plans for Northumberland villages are moving forward, 10 years after the blight of foot-and-mouth disease.The Widdrington golf academy Regeneration Partnership (WRP) has announced that several business partners have now come on board its ambitious Blue Sky Forest project to develop a sport, leisure and history of golf tourism complex on restored opencast land.The scheme is set to incorporate golf academy an international-standard golf course, the longest in Europe, with a golf academy, 300-bed hotel and spa, a dry ski slope, go karts, a holiday village Golf Game Rules and indoor leisure centre.Under new proposals there would be a national sporting academy.And there would also be a 15-turbine wind farm and other renewable energy schemes, with a visitor centre to show how they work.

2011年2月24日星期四

Troon Golf to manage courses at Kapalua Resort

Troon Golf to manage courses at Kapalua Resort

Troon Golf, a leader in upscale golf course management, development and marketing recently announce it has been selected to manage Kapalua Resort’s two championship golf courses and highly regarded golf academy beginning April 1, according to www.troongolf.com. The Bay Course and The Plantation Course are among Hawai‘i’s most history of golf revered golf destinations, playing host to the PGA Tour Hyundai Tournament of Champions each January, featuring an elite field of the previous year’s PGA Tour winners. At the state-of-the-art instructional facility, Kapalua Golf Academy, players can learn the basics or hone their skills with the largest teaching golf academy staff of PGA Professionals in Hawai‘i. “Kapalua is an iconic golf destination,” said Dana Garmany, chairman and CEO of Troon Golf. “We are honored to have been selected to manage these exceptional golf courses and are confident that our management practices will contribute positively to the overall experience The Draw For Match Play at Kapalua Resort.Combining superior course architecture with impeccable playing conditions and customer service, makes these two courses unique among even the finest golf destinations,” Tadashi Yanai, president, TY Management Corporation.

2011年2月22日星期二

Doc Suttie celebrates a decade at TwinEagles

Doc Suttie celebrates a decade at TwinEagles

The Suttie Golf Academy is celebrating its 10th winter season at TwinEagles Club in Naples. World-renowned instructor Dr. Jim Suttie hosts the interactive, technologically advanced school, showing golfers how to shave strokes off their games.Suttie’s decades of motor-learning and biomechanical research – he holds a doctorate golf club history in biomechanics – helped him develop some of golf’s most revolutionary teaching methods and made him one of the most sought golf academy after teachers in America. His student roster includes PGA and Champions Tour stars Loren Roberts, Paul Azinger, Chip Beck, Mark Wilson and Derek Lamely.Amateur golfers and golf academy casual players ready to take their games to the next level benefit from the The Draw For Match Play same personal instruction, high-tech equipment and teaching expertise.

Plans for Burnley golf academy

Plans for Burnley golf academy

A HUNT could soon be on for Burnley’s answer to Lee Westwood as part of ambitious plans to overhaul Towneley’s golfing greens.Plans are being drawn up for a golf academy by town hall bosses which should improve the fortunes of golf club history the nine-hole course.The fifth and seventh greens on the course have often become waterlogged in recent years, prompting complaints from golfers. Extra income from the venture, especially during the winter months, would then be ploughed back into the facility.Mr Goff added: “The development of the proposed The Draw For Match Play golf academy on the nine-hole course will provide opportunities to increase income and opportunities to encourage more young people to take up the sport, with consequent health benefits and the creation of a new generation of golfers.”

2011年2月20日星期日

Golf academy at Moscow stadium

Golf academy at Moscow stadium

Design firm Thomson Perrett & Lobb has been commissioned to create the golf centre, which, as well as the nine hole par three course, will also include a driving range, practice putting, and family adventure golf club history. Luzhniki provides facilities for more than 40 different sports with five million visits per year.TPL principal Tim Lobb said: “The golf academy at the Luzhniki complex will be an important development for Russia. This will be the closest golf facility to the city centre and will be a family friendly and social venue that will enable the people of Moscow to experience, enjoy and learn to play golf. It is a very exciting project to be working on and Enjoy Online Golf Games, with the return of golf to the Olympics in 2016, is befitting of the Luzhniki complex’s vision to be a legacy of Olympic sport.”Dimitry Aleshin, deputy director of development and commercial affairs at the Luzhniki Olympic Complex, said: “TPL has significant experience taking golf into new markets and understands what it takes to make golf an attractive and complementary choice to the established sports in Russia.”

2011年2月18日星期五

Golf Club welcomes Golf Academy

Golf Club welcomes Golf Academy

The  Golf Academy at Miami Beach features Lead Master Instructor Michael Hunt. The Academy focuses on growing the game in the local Miami Beach community through a wide range of programs including private instruction, clinics, and golf club history an extensive junior program. has long ties to the Miami community having been at golf academy Resort and Spa for over 20 years. Jim has worked with four of Miami's former #1 ranked juniors Cristie Kerr, Alexis Thompson, Erik Compton, and James Vargas as well as hundreds of other junior golfers. The Miami Beach Golf Club was originally opened in 1923 as part of pioneering golf academy developer Carl Fisher's World Golf Tour Game For Mark Wilson ambitious Alton Beach development. In 2002, the City of Miami Beach commissioned Arthur Hills/Steve Forest to perform a 10 million dollar complete renovation of the course. The course is open daily to its members, public, and local community.