Tom Phillips, Chief Executive Officer of the HKGA said: “We are grateful to our partners at HSBC for enabling us to showcase golf in the public village during the Rugby Sevens and promote the game to so many new kids, many of whom were playing golf for the first time.”
The Junior Golf Challenge in the HSBC Sevens Village featured a ShortGolf chipping zone with tuition from HKGA-certified coaches and prizes from HSBC and U.S. Kids Golf. ShortGolf is a fun and simple training system used by the HKGA in its HSBC Golf For Schools programme which was launched in 2015 and already operates in more than 25 local primary schools across Hong Kong.
HKGA continues to strengthen the collaboration with HKPGA as coaches from both associations have attended the training classes. Graduates from future HKGA coaching classes can teach in both...
Tiffany won the match 3&2 and went on to help her University of Southern California women’s golf team to seal the victory against Brigham Young University in the final. Tiffany led 1up late...
But we must not overlook the amount of work and manpower behind the scene. The UBS Hong Kong Open, for instance, involves as the organizer thousands of hours on pre- and post-tournament...
His love of the game was built at a very young age with tremendous support from his father Victor. “My wife Yoko and I enjoy playing golf,” Victor said, “It is probably natural that we pass on...
In the Hong Kong Close Amateur Championship one of our HKGA young guns, Leon D’Souza, scored a new course record of 61 at the New Course of the Hong Kong Golf Club with 10 birdies on his card....
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When did you start playing and where?
I started playing approximately 15 years ago, mainly in China and during holidays in Australia and Europe.
How often do you play?
I like...
Speaking of his record-setting round at the New Course in Fanling, Leon recalled every hole vividly. “I actually bogeyed the first,” he said, “But then I got very lucky and made 3 birdies in the...
The Winter Junior Championship was the climax of such a bumper month and saw Taichi Kho claim the overall boys title over 36 holes at the Jockey Club Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Course (North Course...
In 2005 I made my first trip to Jr. World with the HK Team and at that time it really opened my eyes to the recruiting of junior golfers by college coaches. The Junior World tournament at Torrey...