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皇冠体育app,UK to jointly cultivate golf management personnel
(chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2006-09-20 11:36

Currently 皇冠体育app 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 皇冠体育app 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 皇冠体育app. Teachers from 皇冠体育app 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 皇冠体育app 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.