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Icher leads ANA Inspiration as high winds stop play

  • Golf

Karine Icher has taken a one-shot lead after today’s weather affected opening round of the ANA Inspiration tournament at the Mission Hills Country Club in California.

Korean lies on one-under through eight holes.Action at the tournament, the first major event of the golf


Tonga 2019 admit preparations are "running late" but stress country will host Pacific Games

  • Samoa 2019

Tonga Sports Association and National Olympic Committee (TASANOC) secretary general Takitoa Taumoepeau has admitted preparations for the Pacific Games in 2019 are "running late" but stressed the event would go ahead as planned.

unlikely to meet their deadlines.He reportedly told Parliament that a piece of land to build an 18-hole golf

claimed to have a different preference.Takitoa Taumoepeau admitted disagreements remained over the Games' golf


USOC positive about Ryder Cup-style Olympics event, BOA chief says

  • Olympics

British Olympic Association (BOA) chief executive Bill Sweeney has claimed that the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is "very interested and very keen" on a Ryder Cup-style event between the two country's Olympic teams following discussions on the idea.

The Ryder Cup is a men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the US.The competition is contested


World Team Disc Golf Championships set for Colchester

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) has announced that the 2017 World Team Disc Golf Championships

have been sanctioned by the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA).

the University of Essex in Colchester in England.Colchester previously hosted the 2012 European Disc Golf

Africa and Asia, with a further five teams from Europe and South America still expected to register.Disc golf

is the flying disc variant of the game of golf, where players traverse a course making as few throws

WFDF is excited to see the expansion of the World Team Disc Golf Championships this year and we appreciate

fully develop true World Championship participation for the exciting and fast growing sport of disc golf


Decision on cricket's 2024 Olympic application expected by July says ICC chief

  • Non-Olympic Sports

International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has revealed that a decision on whether the world governing body will submit an application to be part of the sport programme for the 2024 Olympic Games is expected to be made by July.

The return of golf to the Olympic programme at Rio 2016, after a 112-year hiatus, was dampened by a number


Glasgow 2018 "inundated" with volunteer applications just 24 hours after launch

  • Berlin and Glasgow 2018

Organisers of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships have received 2,150 applications to be part of the volunteer team in the first 24 hours of the recruitment campaign.

Games.The inaugural European Championships will see existing continental competitions in aquatics, cycling, golf


Applications open for Glasgow 2018 volunteer programme

  • Berlin and Glasgow 2018

The search for 3,000 volunteers for the Glasgow 2018 European Championships is officially underway following the opening of the application process.

Games.The inaugural European Championships will see existing continental competitions in aquatics, cycling, golf



Coates welcomes Tokyo 2020 golf course's rule change to allow female members

  • Tokyo 2020

John Coates has welcomed the decision of the Kasumigaseki Country Club, which will be used to host golf

30 kilometres north of central Tokyo, to be switched to an alternative location such as the Wakasu Golf

2020 Organising Committee looks forward to working even closer with the club, the IGF (International Golf

Federation), the JGA (Japan Golf Association) and the JOC (Japanese Olympic Committee) to make thorough

preparations towards the golf competition at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020."

Lydia Ko of New Zealand had been among the top names to speak out against the rules at the Tokyo 2020 golf


Glasgow 2018 reveal details of cultural festival with 500 days to go

  • Berlin and Glasgow 2018

Glasgow 2018 has marked 500 days to go until next year's European Championships by revealing that a "vibrant cultural festival" is being developed to run alongside the new multi-sport event.

performances.The inaugural European Championships will see existing continental competitions in aquatics, cycling, golf


Tokyo 2020 golf venue changes rules to allow female members

  • Tokyo 2020

The club that will be used to host golf competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has changed its rules

calls for the venue in Saitama prefecture to be switched to an alternative location such as the Wakasu Golf

Lydia Ko of New Zealand had been among the top names to speak out against the rules at the Tokyo 2020 golf

change current regulations, but a Board meeting postponed a decision on the matter.Last week, Muirfield golf



Partners announced to manage German House at Pyeongchang 2018 and Tokyo 2020

  • EOC

PROPROJEKT project management consultants and AS + P Albert Speer architects have assumed responsibility for German Houses at the Pyeongchang 2018 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has been announced. 

in the South Korean county.The German House here in Pyeongchang will be situated at the Birch Hill Golf


Hull hopeful Olympics can influence Tokyo 2020 golf venue to admit female members

  • Golf

Britain’s Charley Hull is hopeful the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games can help influence the Kasumigaseki Country Club to admit women as full members.

The venue for the golf competition at the Games has come under increasing pressure in recent months,

“I heard that the golf course is against women members, but hopefully because golf is in the Olympics

“It will help make the golf course notice that if they want to have a place like that in the Olympics

barriers she faced as a woman in a male dominated sport.Controversy over female membership at major golf

silver medallist Lydia Ko has been among the top names to speak out against the rules at the Tokyo 2020 golf


Olympic stars unveiled as ambassadors for Bridgestone campaign

  • News

Daley Thompson was unveiled as one of three ambassadors for Olympic partner Bridgestone's launch of their "Chase Your Dream, No Matter What" campaign in the United Kingdom.

coming year, with Thompson's set to be an athletics based challenge.Mears and Hull will host diving and golf