An average golf tourists’ knowledge about golf in Indonesia typically confines to the likes of Jakarta and at best Bali. Southern Peninsula Malaysians (Singaporean golfers included) may favour the Batam & Bintan islands due to geographical reasons as well as connectivity. Here lies the opportunity of introducing the iconic city in the East Java; Surabaya.
Surabaya is the 2nd largest city in Indonesia with over 3.4 million population in the city while the metropolitan area has a population of 8 million. Historically, Surabaya was once the Dutch colonies’ largest city and a trade competitor to Shanghai & Hong Kong.
Just some months ago, Malaysia Airlines begun its daily flight operations to Surabaya while AirAsia has been operating up to 6 daily flights for many years. With flight time approximately 2hrs 40 minutes from Kuala Lumpur, this will be a great opportunity for more outbound golf getaways from the capital of Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur, 1 March 2018: MST Golf was established in 1990 with golf retail as their core business. Being one of the few golf retailers around at that time, founders, Ng Yap and KP Low began to seek new opportunities and slowly built a diverse portfolio in the industry.
In 2005, Golf Tech Shop (GTS) was born as a dedicated technical improvement centre for custom fitting, repair and club adjustment. GTS was something set up as a supplement to the retail business and it was not taken seriously.
“5 years ago, we realised that Malaysian golf market was maturing and there was a need to offer better club fitting services to meet consumer demands” Today, we are witnessing the fruits of our labour as we are the largest club fitting and repair service provider with the most complete range of brands in the country.”quoted Ng Yap, MST Golf’s CEO.
The continued pursuit of breakthrough technology and performance by Titleist golf ball engineers has resulted in the all-new Titleist Tour Soft golf balls, now available in golf shops worldwide.
For golfers demanding better feel, the invention of Titleist Tour Soft – the softest-feeling golf ball in its category – delivers a better performance experience. Tour Soft’s innovative design combines the largest core ever engineered into a Titleist golf ball with breakthrough ultra-thin cover technology to provide responsive feel, very fast speed for commanding distance and excellent short game performance.
Kuala Lumpur, 4 February 2018: A red-hot Shubhankar Sharma of India fired 10 birdies for a remarkable 10-under-par 62 to claim a stunning two-shot victory at the US$3 million Maybank Championship on Sunday.
At the age of 21, the talented Indian overcame a four-shot deficit with a dominant display to clinch his second Asian Tour and European Tour title with a winning total of 21-under-par 267 in windy conditions at the Saujana Golf and Country Club.
In his fourth start since winning the Joburg Open in South Africa in December, Sharma produced a sensational final round where he made five birdies in each half which included clutch birdie putts on 17 and 18.
He defeated co-overnight leader Jorge Campillo of Spain, who eagled the opening hole before returning with a 68 to settle for second place, while Pablo Larrazabal and Ryan Fox of New Zealand finished in third place after posting identical 66s.
Master Craftsman Bob Vokey and his pioneering R&D team continue to shape the future of wedge design with the introduction of the new Titleist Vokey Design Spin Milled 7 wedges. Available in golf shops worldwide beginning March 9, new Vokey SM7 wedges provide all golfers the opportunity for a better, more confident short game through unmatched craftsmanship, technology and performance.
Vokey’s prior generation SM6 models ushered in a new era of wedge innovation and performance with their groundbreaking Progressive Center of Gravity (CG) design. The advancements made with SM7 – already the most played wedge model on the PGA Tour, with four SM7’s in the bag of Jordan Spieth – further widen the performance gap between a Vokey and all other wedges.
Shah Alam, 14 January 2018: Team Europe, captained by Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn, dominated the Singles matches to earn a hard-fought win over Team Asia with a 14-10 victory to retain the EurAsia Cup presented by DRB-HICOM on Sunday.
After trailing Team Asia over the last two days, Europe surmounted a gallant fightback to win eight out of 12 matches in the Singles format at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club.
“It was a great performance today from every single one of them, they came off the golf course yesterday and there was a determination and a will of wanting to win this,” said Bjorn.
Lumut, 3 December 2017: The Damai Laut Golf Series 2017 held on December 3 ended in a grand finale with staff of Swiss-Garden Beach Resort Damai Laut and Damai Laut Golf & Country Club cheering the participants off with colourful flags before taking to the fairways. The tournament proved to be yet another successful event with a full field of 104 golfers playing at the pristine Damai Laut Golf & Country Club (DLGCC), with three women participants, a 17-year old junior golfer and the participation of Orang Besar Jajahan Manjung YDH Toh Seri Bijaya Lt. Kol (B) Dato’ Shaharudin bin Haji Nazari made it even more exciting.
A return air ticket to Muscat courtesy of Oman Air, 1 set Kamui Pro TP-301 golf set and two BMW 118i M Sport for 2 Hole In One were the main attractions and had the golfers playing their best in the Ronald Fream designed 18-hole award winning golf course.
Callaway Golf Malaysia through Leonian Singapore has just recently launch the most awaited final two pieces to the complete line up of the EPIC series. The dream iron - “EPIC STAR Iron” and “EPIC PRO Iron” was released to all Callaway authorized dealers in the country earlier this month.
Staying true to its name “EPIC”, the “EPIC STAR Iron” and “EPIC PRO Iron” were developed without constraints of time, material and development cost, a model that deserved to be called a dream iron. These irons came to birth from the unique request of Callaway’s CEO Chip Brewer a few years back to Head of R&D of Callaway Dr. Alan Hocknell, that if he could design the very best iron that he would play, with maximum performance and without any limits to the cost or engineering process, what would that be?
Singapore, 11 December 2017: Gavin Green made history by becoming the first Malaysian to win the Asian Tour Order of Merit after an intense 12-month battle with several of the region’s best golfers.
Green’s accomplishment is a watershed moment in Malaysia’s golfing history as no player from the country has ever come close to laying claim to the honour of being Asia’s number one golfer.
With his latest win, the 23-year-old is now the second youngest golfer to win the accolade since 2004, when the Asian Tour was established. Korea’s Seungyul Noh was 19 years old when he won the merit title in 2010.
TaylorMade Golf, the industry leader in iron technology and innovation, announced the expansion of its globally successful P700-series iron lineup with the addition of the P790 irons, a forged players distance iron engineered with new SpeedFoam Technology for golfers seeking the forged look and feel of a players iron with increased distance, forgiveness and playability.
With P790, TaylorMade’s engineers have answered the challenge of creating a forged iron that delivers remarkable distance and playability combined with remarkable feel in a medium-compact head design with a thinner topline and reduced offset preferred by discerning players. This was accomplished by incorporating technologies that improve on feel, sound and consistency while delivering significant distance. The P790 features a soft, 8620 carbon steel body combined with a high-strength forged 4140 carbon steel WrapFace in a hollow body design.
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