Olympic Golf, Tales of Two Cities – Rio & Foshan
2016-09-24 09:51:47

During August 11–19, after leaving for 112 years, golf returns to Rio Olympics. 60 male and female top golf players from around the world come to Rio to fight for the first Olympic golf golden medal in the new century. In 2016, not only in Rio people are celebrating for the Olympics, but also in Foshan – the headstream of Cantonese Culture, European Challenge Tour – Foshan Open 2016 with the theme of “Love Canton, Love Golf” will be held in October. Sharing the same passion of golf and Olympics, Rio and Foshan – these two great cities – together present us Olympic Tales of Two Cities.



Chinese Golfers fought in Rio, European Challenge Tournament Player Rose Won the Champion.
At the Rio Olympics, four Chinese excellent male and female golf players - Wu Ashun, Li Hao Tong, Feng Shanshan and Lin Xiyu joined the Chinese Olympic team as the representatives of Chinese golf. They showed the charm of Chinese golf to the whole world. When people saw these four Chinese players battle for the country at the competition site or through television screen, they felt excited in heart. At that moment, people actually realize that golf is also involved in this the world's most spectacular sporting event, being part of it. Eventually, Justin Rose, who grew up from the European Challenge Tournament and is called "United Kingdom Rose", won the first Olympic Golf Gold Medal of this century, and the Silver medal winner Sweden star Henrik Stenson is also from the challenge tour into the world.Thees top players’ brilliant achievements at the Rio Olympics will inspire those players who will participate in the2016 Foshan Open. In the Tokyo Olympics four years LATER, the players on behalf of their countries to battle in the Olympics, may come from them.

“2016 Foshan Golf Club Olympic Scramble”, You Are the Olympic Player

Members and guests chose to represent different national teams, cheering for golf with the Olympic spirit.

In this summer, besides watching Olympic Golf competition, golf lovers also have the chance to become "Olympic Heroes". At least, for Foshan Golf Club Members, it is real.On August 13, paying tribute to the Rio Olympics Golf and cheer for the Olympic players, Foshan Golf Club held an “Olympic Scramble” with full Olympic elements and attracted many Members and guests to participate. On the Scramble day, Members and guests chose to represent different national teams, cheering for golf with the Olympic spirit. Each team is like the “real” Olympians, waving the flags of different countries to attend the tee-off ceremony just like the Olympic ceremony, and competing for honors as the “National Team”.After 18 holes of fierce competition, Russia (Shi Junsong, Qiu Yue, Han Shujun, and Wang Xiaoxing) made excellent results in this Scramble and became the Team Champion. Argentina team (Xu Zuoxun, Luo Chengzhu, Deng Rixiang, Huang Guoquan) and Germany (Huang Zhanghui, Lin Yuedong, Pang Haoquan, He Runyuan) respectively won the Runner-up and the Second Runner-up. This novel activity has fully showed the inclusive and unlimited energy of Foshan Golf Club and Foshan Open. As a new tournament, Foshan Open always gives us amazing feeling with its innovative spirit. On October 20-23rd in 2016, when the Foshan Open is held at Foshan Golf Club, the players, sponsors, spectators, and Club Members will all be the protagonists of the tournament. At that time, those unique feelings from the “2016 Foshan Golf Club Olympic Scramble” will be awakened again and brings the experience of this annul sporting event in south China to perfection.

Foshan Golf Club held an “Olympic Scramble” with full Olympic elements and attracted many members and guests to participate.

The Theme of Green, Building Green Homes Together
Besides golf and the Olympics Games, the Rio Olympics and Foshan Open’s admiration of green also makes these two cities more similar.On the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympic Games, the Committee explicitly expressed its green theme. At the opening ceremony, the Rio Olympic Committee reflected the green theme with a variety of wonderful expression, and showed Brazilian closeness with nature and love of nature. When the athletes began to march into the ceremony, each athlete got a plant seed and a soil box. They would get the seed planted and together create an Olympic forest consisting of about 11,000 trees. This forest would certainly become valuable property that the Rio Olympics leaves to the world. And Brazil had made a commitment at the opening ceremony that Brazil would plant 150 million acres of trees by 2020.Similarly, since the first tournament, Green Sustainable has always been an important topic of Foshan Open. In the early days of the tournament, Foshan Golf Club had become one of the only two domestic golf clubs which had received GEO certification. Foshan Open – a tournament born with a label of “Green” – had launched some more exciting initiatives in 2015. Foshan Open joined "Green Power" project this year, and promoted the concept of green golf events with Ryder Cup, United Kingdom Open, Scotland Open and other tournaments together. Now, Foshan open has become one of the most eco-friendly golf tournaments in China.Since the theme of “Green” is launched at the Rio Olympics and Foshan Open – two international sporting events in different cities, it can be seen that this theme has become the consensus of the world. Regardless of the East or the West and whether you're in Foshan or Rio, as long as you care about green just like supporting for the Olympic Games and golf, people will not help but falling in love with Rio and Foshan, and build the global green homes together.