As the first of the 2008 “Summer of Golf” events drew to a close last week, it is just the beginning for Welsh golf enthusiasts up and down the country who are looking forward to another exciting season of world-class international golf.
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Steve Parry produced another impressive display to clinch the Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Welsh Open Young PGA Professional Championship at Bull Bay, Anglesey (Friday 25 April).
Ryder Cup Wales 2010 launched their sizzling summer of golf at Anglesey's Bull Bay Golf Club this week with a few potential golf stars of the future.
Bull Bay - Wales' most northerly golf club - are bullish at raising Anglesey's reputation as a golfing destination on the back of staging the Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Welsh Open Young PGA Professional Championship.
Two-time champion Adam Constable moves out of his comfort zone for the defence of his Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Welsh Open Young PGA Professional Championship title next week.
North Wales' Matthew Tottey has defending champion Adam Constable firmly in his sights when the Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Welsh Open Young PGA Professional Championship is held later this month.
Ian Woosnam has joined the race for one of the biggest prize funds in European Seniors golf after announcing today that he will compete in the Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open.
Former Open and Masters champion, Sandy Lyle, has confirmed that he will compete in this year’s Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open in North Wales.
A cancer charity is set for a major boost thanks to an ambitious plan to fly the Ryder Cup to every golf club in Wales.
Young golfers in Neath Port Talbot are set to benefit from Wales hosting the Ryder Cup, in Newport, in 2010 and have received a windfall of £150K.
Tredegar Park Golf Club has warmly welcomed the decision from Ryder Cup Wales to award funding of £82,128 to develop public golf facilities at the club.
Ryder Cup Wales, in partnership with the Sports Council for Wales’ Élite Cymru programme, has today named the professional golfers who have been awarded invitations to play in the 2008 Challenge Tour.
Ryder Cup Wales has released the dates and venues for the 2008 ‘Summer of Golf’ events programme.
One thousand days to go and with more than 100 countries set to receive television coverage the countdown has truly started for the greatest show in Welsh sporting history – The 2010 Ryder Cup at The Celtic Manor Resort in Newport.
Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Ltd is pleased to announce the venues for the Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open for the next three years.
Carmarthenshire junior golfers were today (Friday, 2nd November) joined by Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Heritage, Rhodri Glyn Thomas, to mark the official opening of the recently upgraded pitch and putt golf facility at Pembrey, near Llanelli.
Ryder Cup Wales hosted their annual gala dinner and awards at The Vale Hotel, Golf and Spa Resort last night (Thursday, 25th October) where The Towergate Welsh Golf Awards 2007, presented by the Golf Union of Wales, were announced.
A Blackwood entrepreneur is using one of the largest TV shopping channels in the USA to market a new golfing product - thanks to links with the Welsh Assembly Government, Ryder Cup Wales and Ryder Cup legend Ian Woosnam.
With the Ryder Cup coming to Wales in less than 3 years, many businesses and communities throughout Wales are already feeling the impact and reaping the benefits that the world’s third largest sporting event will bring.
Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Ltd is teaming up with Sports Council Wales to help propel the nation’s future champions to the top.
Four golf businesses in Wales have made the cut to the short list for the Tourism Oscars - the National Tourism Awards. The winner will be revealed at a ceremony, taking place at Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire on October 4, 2007.
Our 2007 ‘Summer of Golf’ programme is drawing to a close following a successful S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe event at Machynys Peninsula Golf & Country Club, near Llanelli.
Welsh Open winner, Stephen Dodd, has confirmed that he will play in this year’s Ryder Cup Wales Welsh National Championship at Cardiff Golf Club from the 4th – 6th September.
Rhodri Glyn Thomas, Welsh Assembly Government Heritage Minister, was in attendance on Sunday, 19th August - the final day of the 2007 S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe.
Some of the top names from the world of women’s golf will return to West Wales next week to compete for the S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe 2007 title.
The hosting of the 2007 S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe is just the culmination of one Welsh golf club’s commitment to developing the sport amongst women golfers.
As it prepares to host the prestigious S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe later this month and welcome an impressive field of international golfing stars
Ian Woosnam’s 2006 Ryder Cup vice-captain, Peter Baker, has today announced that he will play in this year’s FIRSTPLUS Wales Challenge event which tees off later this week (Thursday, 26th July – Sunday, 29th July) at the Vale Hotel, Golf & Spa Resort.
Local energy supplier, SWALEC, have announced their sponsorship of what is often one of the most exciting, and surprising, Welsh golf tournaments - The FIRSTPLUS Wales Challenge.
With just over three years to go until The 2010 Ryder Cup comes to The Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, businesses throughout Wales are already benefiting in the lead up to 2010, following the successful bid to bring the Ryder Cup to Wales.
Welsh shipping company, W E Dowds Ltd., say that the 2010 Ryder Cup cannot come soon enough for them, now that they and their key customers have secured their tickets
Welsh golfer Bradley Dredge today (Monday, 2nd July) handed over a cheque of £10,000 to donate to Tenovus, the official charity to Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Ltd.
Tenovus, the official charity to Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Ltd, have today announced fundraising donations totalling an outstanding £2,333 during their presence at the Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open.
More than 100 volunteers will get the chance to rub shoulders with some of Europe’s best women golfers when the S4C Wales Championship of Europe returns in August, for the third year running, to Machynys Peninsular Golf and Country Club.
With the Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open event underway at the wonderful Conwy Golf course in Caernarfon we are now beginning another excellent Ryder Cup Wales’ “Summer of Golf”. 2007 will see world-class golf at clubs and courses all over Wales
A dramatic final day at the Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open saw England’s Carl Mason capture his 15th title in four years on the European Seniors Tour in front of huge galleries at the event in Conwy on Sunday.
Caernarfon school children were joined today (Thursday, 14th June) by America’s Ray Carrasco, 2004 Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open Champion, and former Welsh coach, Craig Defoy
European Ryder Cup player Costantino Rocca has joined the race for one of the biggest prize funds in European Seniors golf in the Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open which takes place next week at Conwy Golf Club from 15th to 17th June.
World-class golf is set to descend on Conwy Golf Club this summer when the Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open is staged from 15 – 17 June.
Golf clubs throughout Wales have recently played host to the biggest trophy in golf.
Acting as a spring board for economic development in Wales, preparations for The 2010 Ryder Cup are having some surprising spin-offs – not least in the area of new research being undertaken by research scientists in Wales.
It may not be as much as a mile, in golfing terms however 20 yards is all important and represents a new course development at The Vale Hotel, Golf & Spa Resort.
Girls in Wales are taking to the fairways in record numbers, according to figures released today by Golf Development Wales.
Adam Constable returns to Aberdovey Golf Club later this month confident of defending his Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Welsh Open Young PGA Professional Championship title - but not that confident to want a repeat performance of his close victory a year ago.
Suppliers of Welsh food and drink will have an unrivalled opportunity to supply one of the biggest sporting events in the world when The 2010 Ryder Cup takes place at The Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, South Wales.
Visit Wales and Ryder Cup Wales, in conjunction with Ryder Cup Europe, will be staging a unique two day golf conference intended to update attendees of the latest developments in relation to Golf Tourism in Wales and The 2010 Ryder Cup.
New road signs highlighting Ryder Cup 2010 have been erected along the major routes into Newport.
The 2010 Ryder Cup between Europe and the United States will take place at The Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, South Wales, in the week of September 27-October 3.
Golf facilities in Wales are set to benefit from another bumper injection of cash, following the latest agreement of the Ryder Cup Wales Board to provide support, in principle, to the tune of over £600,000, to a variety of golf clubs throughout Wales.
Schoolchildren in Cardiff today joined Sports Minister Alun Pugh and Cardiff Council to celebrate a windfall of almost £60K from the Ryder Cup Wales Legacy Fund.
Ryder Cup Wales Chairman John Jermine outlines some of the latest news and developments discussed at the Ryder Cup Wales November Board meeting
Development work to improve Newport’s transport infrastructure, ahead of the Ryder Cup, will begin in May 2007.
Visit Wales has estimated that Wales could build its annual revenues from golf tourism from some £27m in 2005 to about £100m by 2011.
Golf clubs across North Wales are playing a key role in an international drive to attract golfing tourists to the region.
Message from Ryder Cup Wales Chairman John Jermine
Mark Pilkington and Kyron Sullivan from Barry – who nailed down his place on The European Tour thanks to very respectful no.7 finish on the Challenge rankings – are now urging young golfers to follow suit.
The Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open returns to North Wales in 2007 for the sixth time in seven years.
Sports Minister Alun Pugh has today been overseeing the final touches to a grassroots golf project in Gwynedd.
The official ambassador for Welsh golf and victorious Ryder Cup European captain, Ian Woosnam, flew into Cardiff International Airport today (16 October 2006), bringing The Ryder Cup to Wales – the next European host nation.
US and Canadian journalists, tour operators and visitors will get an opportunity this week to familiarise themselves with Wales – the next European destination for the Ryder Cup – before attending the K Club, Ireland for the 2006 Ryder Cup.
Chepstow Racecourse, keen to gallop ahead and make the most of The Ryder Cup when it comes to Wales in four years’ time, is looking to learn lessons from the Irish next week.
Team Wales is set to exploit this year’s Ryder Cup in Ireland to ensure Wales gets maximum benefit from the world class event in 2010.
It was today announced that golf in Wales is set to drive forward even further with the news that the men’s and women’s golfing unions of Wales are to become a united force.
The Wales Ladies Championship of Europe gained another success at Machynys Peninsula Golf and Country Club when 11,000 golf fans braved the rain to witness a tournament that produced a thrilling finale.
Laura Davies’s battle to win the Ladies’ European Tour’s New Star Money List reaches its most crucial point in Wales next week when the Welsh Ladies Championship of Europe is staged at Machynys Peninsula Golf & Country Club (August 17-20).
A dramatic final day at Nefyn and District Golf Club saw Welshman Sion Bebb complete the perfect week.
Ryder Cup Wales Chairman John Jermine reports on everything that’s been happening this Summer as well as a few items we can all look forward to…
A dramatic final day at The Vale Hotel, Golf & Spa Resort saw former Ryder Cup player Jose Rivero birdie the last hole to take the FIRSTPLUS Wales Seniors Open trophy and a career-best cheque.
Ian Woosnam and Andy Ingram will be aiming to pull off an historic golfing double
Two of Wales’ most promising golfers were today busy picking up tips from Ryder Cup heroes at the Firstplus Wales Seniors Open 2006 which tees off tomorrow (16-18 June 2006).
The Welshman at the helm of the European Ryder Cup 2006 effort today took time out of his preparations for the looming Celtic Manor Wales Open (1st-4th June 2006)