Travel News
The Island Golf Club,
Dublin, Ireland
Extra tee times are now
available for visitors to
The Island in advance of
The Open Championship
in July 2019. Members of the Club have kindly
volunteered some of their competition times to allow
visitors enjoy the course and experience a true links
less than 15 minutes from Dublin International Airport
and 30 minutes from Dublin City Centre
Le Golf National, the host
venue for The 2018 Ryder
Cup and 2024 Summer
Olympics, has retained
GEO certification, once
again highlighting its
commitment to sustainable business management.
Golfers close in on Race’s
Portuguese finish line
More than 3,000 European club
golfers have signed up for Clubs
to Hire’s Race to Quinta do
Lago as they look to cut their
handicap and win a place in the
grand final in Portugal.
And all they have to do to be in with a chance of
making the trip in November is to reduce their
handicap by 10 per cent before the end of September.
Pioneering golf associations
collaborate on international
sustainability solutions
World Environment Day
Announcement - Sport & Sustainability
As a significant milestone in the advancement of
sustainability in and through the sport of golf, the
associations of Sweden, Portugal, Switzerland, South
Africa, Netherlands, Flanders, Scotland, England, Italy,
Iceland and South Africa have stepped forward to set
new leadership targets, and provide further support to
grass roots clubs.
Golf Tourism Survey
Results 1st Quarter 2018
IAGTO began its Quarterly
Golf Tourism Survey in
2015 collecting and analysing data from 750+ golf
tour operators, golf resorts, golf courses and hotels
every three months and more than 1000 companies
once a year. Golf tour operator sales in the 1st
quarter of 2018 were up on average 7.8% year on year.
Only 15.4% of tour operators reported a drop in sales.
European operators led the way with increases of
9.1%, followed by North American operators on 8.0%
and Asia Pacific operators on 7.0%.
Ollie to honor Seve with
steps alongside Cancer
campaigner Nick Edmund
In 2020, Nick Edmund, the
man whose Global-Golf4-
Cancer campaign is gathering
momentum, will walk part
of the pilgrims’ Camino
de Santiago in Spain with José María Olazábal, the
two-time Masters champion. Where Edmund has
twice diced with neck and head cancer, Olazábal has
known health problems of his own, most notably the
species of rheumatoid arthritis which struck in the
mid-1990s and threatened to have him spending the
rest of his life in a wheelchair.
Collective leadership will advance golf’s role in fostering
nature, supporting communities and conserving
resources, with specific view to help ‘Beat Plastic
Pollution’
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