CNN’s Living Golf program posted a series of stories about golf in China earlier this month. For the most part, they did a fine job and offer the viewer a decent overview of what’s going on here — or as much of an overview as …
Read MoreNicklaus, Palmer, Player, Norman … Chu?
David Chu, patriarch of the Mission Hills family, will receive KPMG’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Golf Business Forum next April in Dubai. The award has been around since 2006 and is “dedicated the ambassadors of the game and business of golf.” Chu joins …
Read More“The China Syndrome”: My latest piece for Golf World
A visit to a construction site reveals a country where golf course building is both banned and booming — and where hope competes with fear every day.
Read MoreDarius Oliver: “The sad reality for China is … most of the golf is very disappointing”
I recently received an illuminating email from renowned golf course critic Darius Oliver — author of Planet Golf and Planet Golf USA — that I thought readers of this blog would find quite interesting. I am publishing a portion of that email here, with permission …
Read More“You can’t have that many Mission Hills and have it make sense”
Golf Course Architecture magazine recently published a 2,600-word quote-packed story by Adam Lawrence that gives a nice overview of the whys and hows of China’s current boom in golf course development. Of course, no one seems to agree on what it all means or where …
Read MoreWhere’s the other Pebble Beach golf club? China, of course
You’d think it’s just another in a long line of Chinese golf courses choosing to “borrow” the name of a well known course in the United States (see Pine Valley, Mission Hills, et al.), but according to the most recent issue of China International Business, …
Read MoreHainan leaders “not really clear” about world’s largest golf complex?
Sorry for the silence of late — various assignments and deadlines demanded my attention. I’ve got a break in the action at the moment and wanted to pass along something that, although a couple months old now, I think is still worth a post. Less …
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal on golf in China
The Wall Street Journal interviewed me for their story “Beijing Pulls Out Its Driver.”
Read More