Currently there are some 310 golf courses in China and millions of people are practicing golf. Chinanews, Kunming, Sept. 18 – Currently China and Britain are jointly training golf management personnel. One of the prestigious golf management schools in Europe, Elmwood College of Scotland, has trained 42 golf management teachers in China since 1999.
Wang Wentao, mayor of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, revealed that the local government would fully support Yunnan Agricultural University to set up a golf management school.
From 1999 to 2005, the R&A, St. Andrews, the world golf rules and development body, has consigned a comprehensive training plan to Elmwood College, asking it to cultivate golf management teachers for China. Teachers from China Agricultural University, Shenzhen Tourism College, Yunnan Agricultural University, Shenzhen University and Tongji University have studied in Elmwood.
Currently there are some 310 golf courses in China and millions of people are practicing golf. Some 640 thousand people served in the golf industry in 2005, while in the 1980s, this number was just four thousand.
"Kunming is a city of spring and sunlight, where 364 days in a year are suitable for playing golf," said Wang.