Renae Cassam has been appointed spa director at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club & Spa, Jupiter.

With over 20 years experience in the luxury realm, she is now responsible for managing the renowned spa facilities at the 285-acre private residential community. Read the rest of this entry »

The government has lost as much as P182 million since 2001 after it opted to tax the horse-racing industry with the 12 percent value-added tax instead of the 25 percent franchise tax, data show.

Data from the National Tax Research Center showed that the government lost an average of P22.7 million a year since 2001 after the Bureau of Internal Revenue made the shift in taxation. Read the rest of this entry »

MEXICO CITY — South African golfing legend Gary Player, the builder of more than 200 golf courses worldwide, will make his debut in Mexico on a tourist project on the Baja California peninsula, project investors announced Thursday.

The Costabaja project will require $22 million in investment and will have a golf course designed by Player, the current international golf ambassador who has designed golf courses on four continents. Read the rest of this entry »

Average prices at the Karaka yearling sales may be down 25% this year but a Taranaki dairy farmer still spent $875,000 on two closely related colts in the space of five minutes today.

Eddie Bourke paid $575,000 to purchase an O’Reilly colt from The Glitter (lot 291) and also bought the next next lot, an O’Reilly x The Grin colt for $300,000. Read the rest of this entry »

World Golf : MELAKA, Malaysia - They’re mighty proud of their Dye family design at Orna Golf and Country Club in Melaka, Malaysia, south of Kuala Lumpur. Even if it’s not the Dye.

For most North Americans, Andy Dye might not be as synonymous with Pete Dye’s family tree as say, P.B. or Perry Dye. Even Alice Dye probably has more clout than Andy, who is Pete’s nephew. Read the rest of this entry »

The English Open golf championship, due to be staged at the St Mellion International Resort in Cornwall this summer, has been postponed for two years due to delays incurred by a third-party developer as a result of the credit crunch.

Crown Golf, the resort’s owner, and the European Tour confirmed that the event will now return in 2011 after it was revealed that a golf and holiday homes scheme led by Living Villages has run into financial difficulties. Read the rest of this entry »

Olympic swimming Gold medallist Duncan Goodhew has been unveiled as a speaker at the inaugural Careers in Sport + Leisure event taking place in Sheffield on 25-26 March.

A director of Premier Sport, one of the UK’s largest providers of sports & PE instruction for primary school children, Goodhew has also raised more than £30m through Swimathon since 1988 and in 1994 helped to create the Youth Sport Trust. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear CMAA Member:

I am delighted to do some show and tell… As you can see at the top of this e-mail, CMAA has a new logo! Let me give you a little background and share the reasons why I am so excited about this unveiling… Read the rest of this entry »

The Ultimate Spa Treatments Show will be held for the first time in the UK, as part of the Global Treatments Village at the International Spa Show 2009.

The event, planned to take place between 20th and 22nd of March 2009 at the prestigious Olympia National Hall - London, will see experts from all over the world sharing the latest innovations in cosmetic medical treatments including both invasive and non-invasive procedures. Read the rest of this entry »

Special talent sometimes demands special treatment.

That is certainly the case with New Zealand’s teenage amateur golfer Danny Lee, who officials want cleared to play in the NZ PGA Championship in Christchurch in March.

The championship has been a closed book to amateurs since it was relaunched after a 16-year absence in 2004 as a Nationwide Tour and Australasian Tour co-sanctioned event. Read the rest of this entry »