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Posted on February 8, 2016
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PING today announced the launch of its Autumn/Winter 2016 men’s and ladies apparel collections, delivering the company’s most advanced technical  performance apparel range to date and reinforcing the long-standing commitment PING has to helping golfers play their best.  For the Autumn/Winter season, PING combines state-of-the-art performance led fabrics with luxury materials and craftsmanship to provide unrivalled quality and performance. Engineered to Play® through the Sensor Platform of performance fabric technologies, the collections deliver advancements in both thermal and lightweight apparel....

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Posted on February 8, 2016
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Burhill Golf and Leisure Ltd (BGL) are delighted to announce a significant £5,000,000 investment into the development of the newly branded Birchwood Park Golf and Country Club, currently Birchwood Park Golf Centre. Situated in Wilmington, Dartford, the venue will undergo a complete transformation of its health and fitness area to create the newly styled venue, set to launch at the beginning of 2017. Guy Riggott, Operations Director at BGL is positive about the development plans and what the revamped facility will be...

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Posted on February 5, 2016
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Leading golf footwear innovator ECCO Golf has announced the addition of Swedish European Tour player Peter Hanson to its already impressive list of ambassadors. Hanson has amassed 13 wins worldwide since turning pro in 1998 and been a part of two winning European Ryder Cup sides. He recorded five top-20 finishes on the European Tour in 2015, including a tie for seventh at the BMW International Open and a tie for 13th at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. “ECCO has an outstanding reputation...

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Posted on February 4, 2016
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Burhill Golf Club, the flagship venue for Burhill Golf and Leisure Ltd (BGL), is pleased to welcome their new Head Professional, Ben Rosser, who will join the club on 1st March, 2016. Ben has been working within the golf industry since 2003, and has spent 11 years with BGL at the neighbouring Hoebridge Golf Centre; one of the most extensive golf facilities in the South of England. “I have always wanted to make a career in golf, and I feel I’ve taken...

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Posted on February 3, 2016
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Softspikes®, the world’s leading cleat brand and number-one cleat across the globe, has revealed its new Tour Lock Insert System which was designed and developed on the company’s popular Fast Twist® thread and receptacle technology. The system, which will be used in FootJoy’s flagship D.N.A., FreeStyle and HydroLite shoes in 2016, utilises an ultra-low receptacle profile that has been engineered to measure only 4mm to bring golfers closer to the ground. The new technology also features Softspikes’® new patent pending Cross System...

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Posted on February 3, 2016
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Leading golf footwear innovator, ECCO Golf, has announced that Global Marketing Manager Jesper Thuen has been promoted to the position of Head of ECCO Golf, Asia. Thuen, a former touring professional, has worked for ECCO Golf as a marketer for over a decade, having started his relationship with the brand as a sales representative in 2002. As Head of ECCO Golf, Asia, Jesper will be responsible for stimulating the growth of the brand in some of the world’s up-and-coming golf markets including...

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Posted on January 28, 2016
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Eaton announced today that its Golf Pride Grips Division is introducing an all-new oversized putter series called TOUR SNSRTM. The new grips feature larger Tour-proven shapes that are engineered with innovative SNSR material that delivers unsurpassed Tour-level feel and feedback. The new TOUR SNSR Series features a soft-tuned rubber formulation that gives these grips an extraordinary feel, and encourages a lighter grip pressure that golfers seek in creating a smooth stroke. The new SNSR compound also enhances Tour-level feedback into the...

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Posted on January 25, 2016
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PING today introduced two new Anser putters that advance the legendary Anser design handcrafted decades earlier by founder Karsten Solheim. The new TR 1966 Anser and Anser 2 arrive as PING is celebrating the iconic Anser model’s 50th birthday.  In developing the new putters, PING engineers relied on 3D scans of the original Anser and Anser 2 to analyse the subtle contours and radius details that Karsten personally shaped into the designs using his mill and hand files. Each of...

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Posted on January 21, 2016
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Foremost professionals once again enjoyed record ball sales in the run up to Christmas thanks to the continued success of the popular annual Titleist Ball Personalisation promotion. With 2015 signifying the sixth year that Foremost has supported the promotion, a record number of 328 of Foremost’s Elite Marketing Programme (EMP) professionals took part in promoting the campaign to their customers. Since the inception of the promotion back in 2010 when 140 EMP professionals participated, ball sales across the group have grown by...

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Posted on January 20, 2016
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  Leading golf footwear innovator ECCO Golf has announced the signing of Australian LPGA Tour player Minjee Lee as a brand ambassador. Lee, who will compete in the new women’s ECCO BIOM Hybrid 2 model and showcase the company’s logo on her collar, claimed her first LPGA Tour victory at the 2015 Kingsmill Championship and currently sits 18th in the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings. Having turned professional in 2014 after a standout amateur career which included winning the 2012 U.S. Girls' Junior...

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Posted on January 20, 2016
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Nippon Shaft for the first time will bring to market two new types of steel shafts that tour pros already have used to win a combined 14 events on the PGA TOUR and the Japan Golf Tour. Nippon Shaft has announced the release of the N.S. PRO MODUS³ Tour 105 and N.S. PRO MODUS³ Tour 125 for sale to the public. The release of the two shafts is the outcome of four years of Nippon Shaft’s work with Tour professionals, who...

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Posted on January 20, 2016
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European Tour stars Lee Westwood, Andy Sullivan and Brandon Stone have all signed multi-year agreements to continue playing PING golf equipment. Having amassed 42 worldwide professional victories since turning pro in 1993, long-time PING staff player and former World number one Lee Westwood’s most recent win came at the Indonesian Masters in April last year. As one of Europe’s most decorated golfers of all time, Lee has garnered a reputation as an exceptional ball striker, with his consistent play earning him a...

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Posted on January 19, 2016
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Redbourn Golf Club, a BGL (Burhill Golf and Leisure) club set in the picturesque outskirts of Harpenden, Hertfordshire, is proud to announce that two of its junior members have been named county Captains for 2016. Harry Bigham, aged 15 and member of Redbourn for the last nine years, has been named 2016 Hertfordshire Under 16 Boys’ Captain. The Captaincy follows a successful year for the +1 handicapper, having won both the Men’s Club Championship, and the prestigious Under 14s Amateur Stroke Play...

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Posted on January 12, 2016
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Golf Marketing Services Ltd (GMS), Europe’s leading Golf PR and Marketing agency, has announced the launch of a Player Management Division, with an initial three player stable of former standout English amateur Tomasz Anderson, European Tour winner Daniel Brooks and established professional Thomas Shadbolt. With its unrivalled golf PR and marketing expertise, GMS will offer a bespoke range of services to its portfolio of professional golfers, with an emphasis on media communications, brand building and sponsorship acquisition. Anderson, who only turned professional...

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Posted on January 11, 2016
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With a focus on providing maximum forgiveness with as much speed as possible, PING today introduced the new G series – the company’s latest game-changing innovations that will provide measurable performance gains without sacrificing any important attributes. The new G range includes three driver options -- standard, SF Tec (Straight Flight Technology) and LS Tec (Low-Spin Technology) -- along with three fairway woods (standard, SF Tec and Stretch), hybrids and irons.  PING has also announced the introduction of G Crossover, a...

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Posted on January 11, 2016
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Burhill Golf Club, Walton-on-Thames, is delighted to announce that two of its current members, both of whom are past Junior Organisers, were honoured with prestigious awards at the recent England Golf coaching conference. Terry Casey, who has recently retired as the manager of the England men’s team, was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Coaching award, while Steve Parrish, the England Golf South Region Manager, was named as the Volunteer Manager of the year. Held at St. George’s Park, the English Football...

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Posted on January 11, 2016
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In his 27th event on the European Tour Brandon Stone, aged 22, claims victory on the European Tour in a roller coaster final round! This is Brandon’s first full year on Tour after securing a card through the Challenge Tour last year. He had his first professional win on the Sunshine tour in Cape Town at the end of 2015. In play this week:   G30  10.5 (small minus)                Graphite Design AD BB7x tip 1"                  45.25 cut              ID8 White 1/2 Cord +1 D4                                                                                                                                                                             ...

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Posted on January 7, 2016
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Foremost Golf has been named as a Best Trading Partner by financial analysis experts Plimsoll in their latest examination of the UK’s Golf Equipment Industry. With both their turnover and profit having increased consistently over the last five years, Foremost featured as one of the best performing companies in nine categories and were awarded a financial rating of ‘Strong’ which is the highest accolade awarded by Plimsoll, meaning the company is in excellent financial health. Plimsoll are widely regarded as industry leaders...

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Posted on January 7, 2016
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The popularity of Nippon Shaft on the world's major golf tours continued to explode in 2015, with 106 players on the PGA TOUR and European Tour combined utilising steel shafts built by the Japan-based golf shaft manufacturer. That equates to a 66 percent increase over the previous year when 70 major Tour pros relied on Nippon Shaft, which signifies an impressive 220 percent increase over 2013 when 48 players used Nippon Shaft products. "Nippon Shaft is proud and gratified that its product...

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Posted on December 17, 2015
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Burhill Golf Club, Walton-on-Thames, is delighted to announce that its New Course has been chosen to host Regional Qualifying for golf’s most famous event, The Open Championship, starting in 2016. Playing 6,957 yards to a par of 72, Burhill’s New Course joins a plethora of five-star venues including Frilford Heath, Little Aston, Panmure and Fairhaven as one of 13 Regional Qualifying venues around the United Kingdom and will play host until 2020. Since opening in 2001, the New Course’s undulating, fast greens,...

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Posted on December 17, 2015
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Hoebridge Golf Centre, Woking, is supporting the UK’s road to the Footgolf World Cup by offering team member Mark Scotchford free access to its renowned Footgolf course. Scotchford will be able to utilise the premium 9-hole facility until he jets off to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for kick-off on January 5th, 2016. The ex-footballer took up the sport when he became a fireman and couldn’t afford to get injured playing ‘proper football’. He is now a fully-fledged member of the UK’s 16-man...

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Posted on December 14, 2015
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Bristol-based Thornbury Golf Centre, one of ten U.K. BGL Golf venues, announces the appointment of Tim Good as its new General Manager. Tim joins Thornbury with a wealth of experience in golf, including time spent in senior roles at a variety of highly-regarded establishments across the country, including a top-100 resort. The addition of such an experienced figure signals the centre’s continued commitment to providing the very best golfing experience for members and visitors alike. “I’m absolutely thrilled to be taking over the...

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Posted on December 10, 2015
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Abbey Hill Golf Centre, Two Mile Ash, Milton Keynes, is set to host its inaugural Mr. Mulligan’s Pirate Golf Family Tournament this weekend (12-13 December). The Centre is welcoming families from local school Giffard Park Primary, whose students will take part in the event. Following the weekend, the tournament will be rolled out to other local schools in the community. The Centre, which is accustomed to working closely with local schools thanks to its thriving junior programme, will donate 25% of the...

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Posted on December 9, 2015
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Close House, the luxury Northumberland-based stay-and-play golf destination, is celebrating its most successful year to date off the back of substantial off- and on-course investment. Boasting the world’s first and only Lee Westwood golf courses, Close House successfully hosted this year’s PGA Seniors Championship, as well as the EuroPro Tour’s Tree Of Life Championship in August. There has never been a better time to experience golf at Close House, with recent investment in both the Filly and Colt courses at Close House...

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Posted on November 26, 2015
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  Foremost Golf has announced it is to expand its already sophisticated portfolio of digital marketing services to include a lite version of the increasingly popular Elite Marketing Programme (EMP). Available immediately, EMP Lite will be free of charge and provide a simple, easy to use service that supports the hugely successful Elite Marketing Programme, of which there are currently 340 members. As part of every member’s Foremost membership, the integrated digital retail service will provide personalised e-newsletters and websites utilising content produced...

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Posted on November 24, 2015
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Golf Marketing Services Ltd (GMS) has announced that Nippon Shaft, the globally renowned manufacturer of premium steel and graphite shafts, has appointed the agency to manage its PR in Europe. Nippon Shaft is one of several new additions to the GMS client roster since the start of 2015, a year that has seen the agency experience its most successful year to date since it began trading in 2001. “Nippon Shaft is the premier shaft brand worldwide. Their quality control and performance is...

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Posted on November 23, 2015
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Burhill Golf Club, Walton-on-Thames, is delighted to report that its Junior Development Programme (JDP) team have qualified to represent England at the Home Nations Inter-Club Championship in Spain next year by virtue of a runner-up finish in the English National Finals. With over 1,200 clubs from across England taking part throughout 2015, the Burhill side of Malcolm Scott Watson (16), Jeong Sim (17), Ronnie Casey (16), Ethan Job (16), Calin Rosu (13), Elliot MacGregor (12), along with reserves Lorenzo Horwitz and...

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Posted on November 17, 2015
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Voice Caddie has announced the addition of an Automatic Round Mapping feature to the T2 Hybrid GPS Watch, enabling users to view shot tracking, scorecard and game history upon the completion of play. Available in the UK to both new and existing T2 watch owners, the new feature is accessed online though Voice Caddie’s innovative Course Manager web portal, available on both Windows and Mac operating systems. A succession to the hugely popular T1 GPS Watch, the T2 model encompasses all the...

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Posted on November 16, 2015
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Today PING launched a new app that includes the Golf Workout, an Apple Watch feature engineered to capture and track fitness data, swing tempo and on-course statistics. The PING app also houses updates to iPING, a putting-improvement tool that attaches to a putter shaft using an iPING Cradle, and works in conjunction with iPhone. In addition, there’s a new PING trivia game created to share the brand’s rich heritage and its focus on innovations that help golfers play their best. The iPING app is a free download from the App Store. The...

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Posted on November 9, 2015
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Marriott Breadsall Priory has announced the appointment of PGA Professional Natalie Clarke as lead teaching professional, the latest in a string of initiatives designed to develop women’s golf in the local area. Clarke, who is the only female PGA qualified teaching professional in Derbyshire, joins Breadsall Priory with considerable playing and teaching experience having competed on the Ladies European Tour and worked alongside world-renowned instructor, Pete Cowen. Commenting on the appointment of Clarke, Director of Golf at Breadsall Priory, Steve Turner...

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