Club Car is expanding its international grow-the-game efforts with support for Vietnam’s first junior player development program. Club Car will donate $100 for every golf car sold in Vietnam this year to the Vietnam Golf Association to bolster the nation’s goal of producing world-class players.
The announcement came at the GSi/Austrade Golf Development Seminar held recently in Ho Chi Minh City, where Vietnam’s goal to develop its first professional tour player was an important agenda item.
“This is an investment in golf’s future here in Vietnam,” said Kevin Gates, Club Car’s director of sales and marketing for the company’s Asia/Pacific group. “Vietnam’s first professional player will be the product of a strong junior program, and we’re excited to play a role in that process.”
Club Car committed a minimum of $5,000 in the first year of the program, which is being administered through the company’s local distributor, Jebsen and Jessen.
Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Chu, general secretary of the Vietnam Golf Association, praised Club Car’s support.
“Club Car has a reputation for helping to grow the game of golf in many countries," he says. "I’m confident that this program will prove successful for junior golf in Vietnam.”
In 2007 the International Association of Golf Tour Operators named Vietnam the “Undiscovered Golf Destination of the Year.” There are currently 15 golf courses operating in Vietnam with more than 30 projects in planning or construction stages, according to the Vietnam Golf Association.
Club Car, which supports junior golf programs in many of the markets where it operates throughout the world, also sponsors the Club Car Junior Hosted by Charles Howell III, an American Junior Golf Association event held in Augusta.
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