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Special Olympics at IOG
The IOG Team has completed another Special Olympics session. The FMS component skills trainings are seeing the athletes advance from strength to strength. The Institute of Golf has been involved with the Special Olympics over the past 7 years and holds training sessions weekly. We are always looking for support in this area and volunteers ...
IOG Amateurs & Pros Prepare for CT Muriwai
The IOG team will be heavily represented next week at the first Charles Tour event of the year, Muriwai. The 4 round event is the first of 5 this year and enables the amateurs to fight it out with the pros in a strokeplay event. The event will start next Thursday the 12th and run ...
Ko Becomes World Number One at 13
It’s all change at the top of the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking with New Zealand’s Lydia Ko taking over top spot from Japan’s Mitsuki Katahira. Ko becomes world number one following victory in the New Zealand Women’s Stroke Play Championship. The 13-year-old was a run-away winner by nine shots over compatriot and world number ...
Manning solid showing at ASU
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Congratulations to Institute of Golf player, Freshman Courtney Manning and sophomore Anna Carling led ASU, finishing ninth and tied for 21st place, respectively. Manning collected the best finish of her young career, while Carling recorded her fourth top-25 finish of the season. Manning shot a career-low 70 on the tournament’s opening day and followed that ...
Clarke breaks course record at Omaha
Institute of Golf professional Dale Clarke set the Omaha Beach Golf Club alight by breaking the course record at the Hawkins Construction Omaha Pro-Am. Clarke shot a stunning second round of 62 on Sunday to lead the event until the final group of golfers finished their rounds. Hastings’s Leighton James consolidated his first round leading ...
Lydia Comes So Close in NSW
Thirteen-year-old golfer Lydia Ko who trains at the Institute of Golf was a centimetre away from the chance to create history at the New South Wales Open in Sydney today. The brilliant young North Harbour student just missed her one metre par putt on the final green that would have forced a playoff with Sweden’s ...
Wightman & Guilford Gain NZGPA Tour Cards
Joonsang Chung from Redwood Park took his first step into the world of professional golf at Taupo today when he added a flawless five under par round of 67 to his earlier 73 thus being the winning medallist at the PGA Q School for 2011. A chip-in birdie on the par three, birdie four on ...
iGolf brings the iPad to your coaching experience
Now both the Golf Instructors at the Institute of Golf further your learning experience by using the Apple iPads. Your swing footage is taken on their Casio EX-FH20′s then imported onto their iPads via V1Golf. Watch the video clip here found on MyTPI, as it is what they do in the TPI Learning Facility with ...
Hendry wins NZPGA OOM Back to Back
Michael Hendry had the New Zealand PGA Order of Merit title well and truly wrapped up half way through the year although could not lay claim to the title until the second to last event. This was because he had up to that time only played in seven tournaments and needed the eighth one to ...
Shilts regains tour card
New Zealanders Brad Shilton (Institute of Golf) and David Klein held their nerve while others faded to secure top 10 finishes in the PGA Tour of Australasia qualifying tournament at Peninsula Golf Club, Melbourne, securing membership to the OneAsia tour for 2011. Shilton and Klein started the fourth and final round outside the top 10 ...
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