Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Matsuyama will go head to head in a globally televised skins game, the first in a series of annual competitions staged by GOLFTV. "The Challenge: Japan Skins" will take place on the 21st October ahead of the PGA Tour's Zozo Championship at Accordia Golf Narashino C.C. in Chiba, Japan, and we will not be watching.
Golf’s love affair in Japan seems to be over, as golf courses there are closing at the rate of one a week. Efforts by the industry to deflect the “2015 problem” — the recognition by Japan’s baby boomers that golf is too expensive and time-consuming to play regularly — have failed.
Jason Day gets in private jet, hot foots it from CJ Cup in China where he was 31st and then beats Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and home favourite Hideki Matsuyama to the spoils taking home $210,000 of the $350,000 pot. Happy Days then (do you see what we did there?)! Well perhaps for Jason but not really for golf as the inaugural 'The Challenge: Japan Skins' lived up to our pretty low expectations.
Donald Trump, the President Elect, has met Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and it was golfing gifts all round.
The Kasumigaseki Country Club, host golf club for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, has failed to reach a decision about ending a ban on women as full members, with the head of its board of directors calling the situation "a nuisance."
Players on different sides of the planet used Nippon Shaft steel shafts in their irons and wedges on Sunday to win on the PGA Tour and on the Japan Golf Tour.
Colin Montgomerie is back in the winner’s circle as he clinches the Japan Airlines Championship.
Japanase ultra–premium golf brand Miura has been sold to a new investor, who plans to grow the brand globally and produce clubs for the average golfer.
Meet Yoshiro Mori, Japan’s very own Francis Drake…
There’s more Olympic golf controversy as a Japanese non–profit group has demanded the golf tournament of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics be moved from the Kasumigaseki Country Club, which does not accept women as full members.
Golf in Japan is very different. Monorails, electric toilets, and Kobe burgers. Add to it delivery drones.
XXIO. You may have seen the name before, but you may not know how to pronounce it correctly. For future reference it's zek-si-oh. And their clubs are seriously good.
