Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Since 2014, the number of golf courses in China has decreased from 689 to 428, and will continue to decrease due to environmental protection, land policies and other factors. A variety of practical problems have restricted the development of golf in China and need to be solved urgently. In September 2024, GOLFZON China Digital City Golf Course (DCGC) was launched at the Meijiang International Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin, becoming the world' s first urban golf course. As a model of innovation and innovation of digital high-tech and traditional golf, it provides a Chinese-style. innovative solution to solve the development problems of golf in China. At the same time, the TGL League in the United States was postponed due to venue issues, while the China Urban Indoor Golf Open will be held as scheduled at the Tianjin Urban Golf Course, demonstrating the strong potential and advantages of the Chinese model of driving high-quality development of Chinese cities with new quality productivity. Through literature research, logical analysis data analogy and so no analysis, if China' s golf industry can reach the average level of developed countries such as the United States, Japan, and South Korea, it will need to build at least 6, 320 urban golf courses, which will require over 100, 000 urban golf simulators, creating millions of jobs, driving billions of consumption, and bringing up to one trillion economic output value. This new type of urban golf course uses advanced digital technology to simulate the 98% of the golf course area, while retaining less than 2% of the traditional golf course area. It provides more people with the opportunity to experience golf with lower investment, cost, and time costs, and becomes a key measure to implement the national golf and serve the new era of intelligence.
Author: Guohua HOU
Language: English
Topic: Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4407924748