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Twenty-five nations ready to compete for WFDF World Team Disc Golf Championships title

  • World Flying Disc Federation

Twenty-five nations are set to fight for the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) World Team Disc Golf

seeing just six countries and it since rising to 10 and 17.No country has defended the world team disc golf

tournament is set to be played out in forests and on the Drava river embankment ©WFDF 2022 World Team Disc Golf

matchplay rounds being contested against equivalent seeds from competing teams.The WFDF World Team Disc Golf


Senegalese Golf Federation organises training day for aspiring athletes as Dakar 2026 looms

  • Dakar 2026

The Senegalese Golf Federation (SGF) arranged a training day at the Golf de Saly hotel for aspiring talents

organised in collaboration with professional golfers and the participants came from three clubs - Saly Golf

, Golf Club de la Pointe des Almadies and Golf Club Met Cap Skrirring.Demba Niassy, the technical director

of the SGF, suggested that the day is part of an immediate and long-term vision.The Senegalese Golf

We are here to better promote the discipline, certainly many Senegalese see golf as a bourgeois sport

, this is why the federation often organizes (sic) days open doors to explain that golf is a complete


UAE backs Saudi Arabia bid for 2029 Asian Winter Games

  • Asian Games

Saudi Arabia's bid to stage the Asian Winter Games in 2029 has received the backing of the Untied Arab Emirates.

Public Investment Fund has purchased English football club Newcastle United and is bankrolling LIV Golf


Remembering Alice Milliat and the Women's World Games 100 years on

  • Olympic Games History

Next Saturday (August 20) in Paris, a day of public celebration in the 12th arrondissement will honour one of the pioneers of French sport.

 Margaret Abbott of the United States won the women’s golf later in 1900.Alice Milliat's work paved


Simon Morton: Hosting international sporting events makes economic sense

  • Inside the Blogs

It was almost as if the last two years never happened. Crowded trains packed with excitable event goers, children wrapped in flags, shared human experiences full of heartbreak and elation, and lasting memories to be re-told for years to come.

570,000), the Commonwealth Games (1,500,000), F1 Grand Prix (400,000), Wimbledon (515,000) and the Open Golf


PGA of Australia will welcome Australian LIV Golf players amid reports Smith set to join

  • Golf

Gavin Kirkman has said that Australian players who opt to compete in the controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf

The emergence of the lucrative breakaway series has sparked bitter infighting in men's golf, with the

co-sanctions the Australian Open and Australian PGA Championship, but Kirkman insisted that Australian golf

players would be permitted to compete on home soil even if they join LIV Golf."

If [fans] get out and see some golf under a different format, that’s up to them."

to the golf ecosystem" and "bring new energy and excitement to fans from all corners of the world".



Coronavirus restrictions lead to cancellation of LPGA Tour Swinging Skirts tournament for third straight year

  • Golf

The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour has announced the cancellation of the Taiwan Swinging

The tournament was due to be held at the Miramar Golf and Country Club in New Taipei City in Taiwan between

October 27 and 30.It is named after the Swinging Skirts Golf Team, a non-profit organisation based in

Taiwan that aims to grow women’s golf, and whose members traditionally wear colourful skirts when playing.The

has cited coronavirus restrictions behind the event’s absence from the schedule again in 2022.Miramar Golf

Getty Images"Due to ongoing COVID-19-related travel restrictions, the LPGA Tour and Swinging Skirts Golf


Alan Hubbard: It’s showtime as sport's leading ladies take centre stage!

  • Inside the Blogs

With Britain on the brink of ushering a third female Prime Minister into No 10 Downing Street, the indication is that we are now living very much in a woman’s world politically. The same goes for sport.

meet again to contest the Ukrainian’s world heavyweight titles.Saudi also planned to stage a women’s golf



LIV Golf trio's bid to play in PGA Tour event rejected by California court

  • Golf

Three golfers on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series have been unsuccessful in a legal challenge to allow

statement: "We're disappointed that Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones won’t be allowed to play golf

to a PGA Tour ban.World number one Scott Scheffler has been critical of those who signed up for LIV Golf

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund owns the majority of LIV Golf Investments and critics say that


Egypt to host first Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship

  • Paralympics

The inaugural Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship is set to take place in Cairo next month with six teams from four continents featuring.

feature at the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games.It joins the likes of arm wrestling, sport climbing, golf



England win first Commonwealth Games hockey gold at Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

England won Commonwealth Games hockey gold for the first time after beating Australia 2-1 in the women's tournament at Birmingham 2022.

Australian defence.She received the ball in acres of space and executed a shot you would likely see on the golf