China Golf, 中国高尔夫

Nearly two years without a win, Colin Montgomerie admitted that he has to stop making mental mistakes because he has wasted dozens of shots this week in his 500th European Tour event. Now he is down at 137th in the world. But the next tournament is the Volvo China Open in three weeks.

He doesn’t want to miss this change like the failure of qualifying for The Masters.”I need to focus to get back into winning swing,” admits Colin Montgomerie. Hoping he can avoid the mental errors, Colin Montgomerie  is looking for a win, or at less a top-10 finish. Let’s wait and see in the Volvo China Open.

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photo credit: mandj98Tiger Woods is going to join the HSBC Champions in China in order to fill more events into his international schedule. After that, he will turn to Melbourne to play the Australian Masters. Woods has rarely played in any international tours since the arrival of his first child in 2007. And the knee surgery forces him to give up the entire 2008. Now the HSBC Golf Champions is going to become a World Golf Championship but Woods has not won yet. This time, he will prepare well and grab the champion. For more information, please Click Here.
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The third event on the China Tour will be the Luxehills Golf Championship. The event which will be held in Chengdu will have a record purse of 1 million RMB ($146,000 USD) Matching  the purse of the Dell Championship held last week and won by WU Weihuang. Luxehills International Golf Club where the Championship will be held was voted by the players of the China tour as their Favorite. The inaugural Luxehills Golf Championship marked the first time the Omega China Tour had visited Chengdu. The event was postponed from its original June schedule following the Sichuan Earthquake on May 12, although the course and facilities were unaffected。

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新浪網 – 體育.

Volvo China Open Golf

European Tour wants the Volvo China Open golf which is launched in the next month to retain the status quo, but not to become a co-sanctioned event with the new OneAsia Tour.

 European Tour, Asian Tour and China Golf Association have managed the lucrative tournament together since 2004. However, China Open joins the OneAsia tournament. It causes the Asian Tour to severed all the ties with the new series.

“When a new Tour, OneAsia, is formed and another Tour, the Asian Tour, is removed at short notice from tournaments they have sanctioned for several years there are going to be issues that require some discussion and clarification.

“This takes time,” said Keith Waters, the European Tour’s director of international policy. For more information, please Click Here.

China Open will launch the OneAsia Tour in April. The relationship with the Asian Tour is ended. The director of the China Golf Association told the press that the event would now be co-sanctioned by the OneAsia and European Tours. The CGA wants to have all the events of OneAsia Tour in China because OneAsia offers more opportunities and quotas to Chinese players and more tournaments than Asian Tour. Volve, as the primary sponsor, also stays on the same side with China Open in order to enjoy the strong influence while keeping good relationship with the European and the Asian Tour. For more information, please Click Here.
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In the second round of the Dell Championship in Xiamen Friday, Wu Weihuang is at the top of the leader-board with four-stroke golf lead.

He is on 133 after firing a a five-under-par 67 after the second round with four strokes ahead of Alex Wu Ashun who is on 137 after 36 holes at the opening event of the Omega China Tour.

Taiwan’s Lin Kengchi, South Korean Eom Jae-Woong ,who is only 18 year old, and Kong Weihai from China are sharing the third place.

For more information about the China Tour in Xiamen, please Click Here to see the full list of the Leading second-round scores.

A record field of a 132 players will compete for a record tying $146,000.00 USD. The China tour has gotten bigger every year and the fields are stronger than ever. Li Chao is going for his third win in this event, but the Beijing born 28 year old says it will be harder than ever to win. With the fields growing in depth and talent winning will take four solid rounds of golf to win this event.

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China Tour draws record field.

China Open

Australian golf officials are planning a new OneAsia Super Series. It is likely that this new tour will expand to 20 tournaments by 2011. In order to attract more famous golfers, the prize money of each tournament could be at least  $1.5 million.

By 2011, the OneAsia would become the third largest golf tour in the world by taking in tournaments from the Australasian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese tours.

But this new tour is opposed by the Asian Tour which sanctions golf in the area while the Japanese tour planing to join the OneAsia next year.

There are already 6 tournaments announced for 2009 including the $2.9 million China Open. For more information, please Click Here.
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 It is impossible for the China Tour to expand to 10 events as expected because of the economic recesion. But the organizers  manage to keep 8 tournaments this year. In such hard time, it can be considered a success.Although Omega has cut the investment slightly, it still holds the title sponsorship deal.

“No part of society is insulated (from the economic downturn) and that includes sport,” said Mould who is the World Sport Group’s East Asia president.

However, China has produced high level golfers like Liang Wenchong ,a winner on the Asian and European Tours, and  Wu Ashun, who finished fourth at the Asia Tour’s Thai Open this month.

“We’ve said all along, ‘Guys, if we think we’re going to succeed tomorrow, we’re fooling ourselves,’” he said.

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Clearwater Bay Golf Course in Hainan

At the end of March, a new golf club, Clearwater Bay Golf Club, will open. The new club locates in Lingshui, Hainan, China. And it is the first golf course completed by Schmidt-Curley. Hainan Island is one of the best places for tourists to enjoy excellent beaches and beautiful sunshine while taking a good nap with tropical vegetation. Clearwater Bay is located on the southeast famous coast of Hainan, offering all the golfers the soft breeze coming from the South China Sea. Now Hainan, as one of the best tourist destinations for golfers, brings everyone another Neverland.

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