October 5th, 2009
Forbes magazine has announced that Tiger Woods is the first athlete to surpass $1 billion in earnings and endorsement money.
The magazine estimates that golf’s top-ranked player crested the plateau when he earned $10 million for winning the FedEx Cup on Sunday.
Woods has been the world’s highest-paid athlete since 2002 when he surpassed Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher.
September 29th, 2009
Restaurant manager Jason Hargett of the Ruby River Steakhouse in Provo, Utah had a life changing day on the golf course on Tuesday.
He was in attendance at the Mark Eaton Classic charity golf event benefiting the Utah Diabetes Center at Red Ledges in Heber City.
He made a last minute decision to participate and soon discovered they were holding a contest: Get a hole-in-one, win $1 million.
September 23rd, 2009
September 2009 sees the official premiere of the Garia Golf Car – “the world’s most exclusive” leisure vehicle of this kind.
The Garia golf car is meant to be “powerful yet elegant” and to attract rich golf players who appreciate a stylish golf car.
These vehicles are of Danish design and manufactured at Valmet in Finland, the very factory that produces several models of Porsche.
May 25th, 2009
The InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa on Natadola Beach, one of the world’s best beaches, is to open on 1 June 2009.
Spread across 35 acres of tropical gardens, InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa is the sole destination resort on Natadola Beach – the only stretch of natural, white sand beach on the main island of Fiji, Viti Levu.
Protected by a reef to create an aqua-blue ocean facing lagoon, Natadola Beach was voted by Forbes Magazine in 2008 as one of the 25 best beaches in the world.
May 5th, 2009
La Reunión Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala’s first golf resort, opened last month.
Built on what used to be a coffee plantation outside the colonial town of Antigua (a Unesco World Heritage site), the property is lodged between four volcanoes, at 3,700 feet above sea level, with the Pacific Ocean about 30 minutes away.
Twenty-six golf casitas, each with personal infinity pools and indoor/outdoor showers, have been built, and there are plans for a boutique hotel and a spa.
April 22nd, 2009
The 19th hole at the Legend Golf and Safari Resort at Entabeni in the Limpopo province in South Africa might be considered one of the most, if not the most difficult hole in the world.
One must tee off from the top of a mountain over a lush forest and onto the green which is located 400 meters below.
The Extreme 19th costs 3,500 rand (about $385) to play–but it comes with the promise, however remote, of a $1-million prize for a hole-in-one.
