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AN INSIGHT WITH TIM TRINKA
Singapore: Asian Golf Industry
Federation (AGIF) President Tim
Trinkahas expressed his belief
that golf’s readmittance to the
Olympic fold ‘will have a positive
impact on growing the game in
the region’.
In a wide-ranging interview on the HSBC Golf Business
Community website, titled An Insight with Tim Trinka, the
Seoul-based lawyer shares his thoughts on the state of
golf in Asia.
Team event and Thailand’s Danthai Boonma claiming the
bronze in the men’s individual stroke play. In the women’s
individual stroke play competition, Asia swept the board
with Lee So-young (Korea), Cheng Ssu-chia (Taiwan) and
Supamas Sangchan (Thailand) winning the gold, silver and
bronze respectively.
Trinka said: “Our hope is that those outstanding efforts
will prove to the doubters that Asian countries are
capable of producing players who can bring glory to their
countries by winning Olympic medals.
Asked specifically how the inclusion of golf in the
Olympics will affect attitudes to the sport in Asia,
Trinka said: “Many of us in Asia see this as an incredible
opportunity to introduce golf to a far wider audience than
we usually have access to.
“Once Governments see that then the prospect of them
getting behind the game will increase, both in terms
of funding to develop players and coaches and also to
allocating plots of land that are unsuitable for residential
or industrial use and turning them into low-maintenance
public courses.”
“Based on the performances of Asian players at last
month’s Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, there’s good
reason to expect to see greater support for the game
both from Governments and the corporate sector.”
In the interview, Trinka also discusses the opportunities
and challenges facing the AGIF and explains his vision as
to how golf can become a more appealing sport across
the region.
In all, Asia won five of the nine golfing medals on offer in
Nanjing with Korea taking the silver medal in the Mixed
To read the full interview with Trinka, please visit
www.golfbusinesscommunity.com
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