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GOLF Link is the only system that will see every golf club member’s handicap stored and calculated nationally. Access to the system will be gained via the Internet using the golfer’s personal GOLF Link number.
Imagine a system that links all 600,000 Australian golf club members instantly. You can turn up at the club of your choice, verify your handicap and/or membership of another club, play your round and have your handicap updated automatically. |
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Golf Australia formed in 2006 and is the governing body overseeing the future of golf in Australia.
Our goal is to raise the level of interest and participation in the game from grassroots golfers through to the elite levels, spectators, volunteers and associated industry bodies. Key responsibilities incorporate managing national tournaments and championships including the Australian Opens as well as rules and handicapping. Working in a commercial and inclusive manner with government, business and community, Golf Australia ensures the value of golf is understood and supported in all policy and business decisions. |
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The NSW Golf Association exists because groups of individual golf clubs found the need for a central forum in order that matters such as golf rules, course rating, handicapping, competition conditions, inter-club, district and interstate events and a host of legal, financial, industrial and administrative issues could be coordinated.
The Association works with the key objective of promoting and encouraging the playing and enjoyment of the sport of golf in a matter, which embodies fair play, good fellowship, and the general well-being of the game. The Association’s role is to co-ordinate, communicate and advise rather than to control the activities of affiliated clubs and District Associations. It monitors the full range of social, political and economic forces and issues, which exist in our community in order to ensure that a favourable climate for golfers and golf clubs is maintained. |
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As the governing body for women’s amateur golf in NSW, our primary objectives are to promote, encourage and foster participation by women of all ages in the sport and maintain a high profile for women’s golf throughout NSW through the development of the State’s elite amateur golfers.
WGNSW conducts a comprehensive program of tournaments throughout the year, ranging from events at club level to four major State Championship Events. We are responsible for ascertaining the Australian Women’s Course Rating (AWCR) for NSW courses and provide comprehensive advice and guidance on the Australian Women’s System of Handicapping, WGA Rules and Regulations and the Rules of Golf to our member clubs. |
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The PGA’s core aim is to help more Australians enjoy golf more often. In doing so, the PGA aims to deliver more business opportunities to its members who are club professionals, accredited golf coaches and tournament professionals. Each year the PGA of Australia stages over 430 tournaments from the Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship to the state based Pro-Am circuits which take professional golf to the masses. |
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The PGA TOUR is the sanctioning organisation for tournament golf in Australasia. The PGA TOUR encompasses tournament golf in Australia, New Zealand and into Asia.
As one of the leading golf Tours in the world, the PGA TOUR is a founding member of the International Federation of PGA TOURS. The International Federation has taken on the responsibility of generating funds for the worldwide development and expansion of the game and the creation of a series of elite international golf tournaments, the World Golf Championships. |
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The R&A takes its name from The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, which has continuous records dating back to its foundation in 1754, and although the Club continues its long history with 2,400 members throughout the world, The R&A has become a separate entity to focus on its governance role.
The R&A is golf’s world rules and development body and organiser of The Open Championship. It operates with the consent of more than 125 national and international, amateur and professional organisations, from over 110 countries and on behalf of an estimated 28 million golfers in Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific and The Americas (outside the USA and Mexico). The United States Golf Association (USGA) is the game’s governing body in the United States and Mexico. |
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The Claret Jug, or to use its proper name, The Golf Champion Trophy, is presented to each year’s winner of The Open Championship. Yet it is not the original prize. When the Championship began at Prestwick in 1860, the winner was presented with the Challenge Belt, made of rich morocco leather, embellished with a silver buckle and emblems....
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The United States Golf Association (USGA) has served as the national governing body of golf for the U.S., its territories and Mexico since its formation in 1894. It’s a non-profit organization run by golfers for the benefit of golfers. The Association sponsors a variety of programs that benefit everyone who plays the game, from conducting 13 national championships each year, to writing and interpreting the Rules of Golf, to funding turf grass and course maintenance practices, to supporting grassroots programs through its “For the Good of the Game” initiative.... |
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The PGA TOUR is a tax-exempt membership organization of professional golfers. In 2006, the PGA TOUR has 48 official events offering more than $250 million in prize money. The mission of the PGA TOUR is to expand domestically and internationally to substantially increase player financial benefits while maintaining its commitment to the integrity of the game. In addition to providing competitive opportunities for its membership, PGA TOUR events also generate revenue for charitable causes in their communities. |
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The continuing progress of The European Tour is today recognised and respected throughout both the golf and business worlds as an outstanding achievement in the always difficult, often delicate challenge of combining professional sport with vital sponsorship and corporate interests.
The growth and development of The European Tour is well documented. In 2006 The European Tour International Schedule consisted of 49 tournaments in 26 countries with total prize money of €122,117,096 (£81,806,797) compared to a total prize fund of £250,000 when the Tour was born in 1972.... |
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Looking to provide a service to golf by hosting a tournament, Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts decided to hold an annual event beginning in 1934. The final decision was made at a meeting in New York at the office of member W. Alton Jones. Roberts proposed the event be called the Masters Tournament, but Bobby Jones objected thinking it too presumptuous. The name Augusta National Invitation Tournament was adopted and the title was used for five years until 1939 when Jones relented and the name was officially changed. An early decision was whether Jones would play or serve as an official. Jones preferred not to compete but was persuaded by the Club’s members to join the field. In the 12 Tournaments that Jones played, his best finish was 13th in 1934. |
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On Oct. 4, 1895, the first U.S. Open Championship was conducted by the United States Golf Association on the nine-hole course of Newport (R.I.) Golf and Country Club. The first U.S. Open was considered something of a sideshow to the first U.S. Amateur, which was played on the same course and during the same week. Both championships had been scheduled for September but were postponed because of a conflict with a more established Newport sports spectacle, the America’s Cup yacht races. Ten professionals and one amateur started in the 36-hole competition, which was four trips around the Newport course in one day. The surprise winner was Horace Rawlins, 21, an English professional who was the assistant at the host course. Rawlins scored 91-82—173 with the gutta-percha ball........... |
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