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The World University Golf Championship maintains its status as a favourite, not only among the world's amateur golf tournaments, but also and especially, among FISU competitions. The WUC Golf event always takes place on magnificent sites and has travelled to different continents.

EVENTS World University Championship

All Events Golf

2024
Seinäjoki (FIN)
27-30 Aug 2024
2022
Torino (ITA)
20-23 Jul 2022
2018
Lubao Pampanga (PHI)
16-19 May 2018
2016
 Brive-la-Gaillarde (FRA)
22 May - 26 Jun 2016
2015
Gwangju (KOR)
3-14 Jul 2015
2014
Crans-Montana (SUI)
23-27 Jun 2014

Golf

FISU Technical Committee Chairs

Dominic WALL (AUS)

Barbara ALBISETTI (SUI)

 

International Federation


International Golf Federation

The History of Golf in FISU

 

Often considered as an elite sport, Golf has lately become very popular amongst university student-athletes. During a visit in Sardinia, Italy in 1984, the former FISU President Dr Primo Nebiolo submitted the idea of including this sport in the competitions organised by the NUSFs. Two years later, in October 1986, the first World University Golf Championship was held in Cagliari, on the island of Sardinia, Italy. The event was staged by the Is Molas Golf Club, also known for the organisation of the Italian Open in 1976. This very selective course enabled FISU and mostly the public, to form a first impression about the level of participants, some of whom had already had impressive records. The line-up was of a very high level at the time; there were such figures as the first World University champion, Ko Cockerill (USA) who was also the first US female champion in 1986, and Marco Durante from Italy, who was the winner of the Orange Bowl in 1979.

 

The Golf event always takes place on magnificent sites. The prestigious settings of La Grande Motte in France, Palma de Mallorca and San Lorenzo in Spain, and Lausanne in Switzerland have hosted previous editions. The following World University Golf Championship, which was played in San Lameer Golf club in South Africa, was also remarkable. On the course, both beautiful and complicated, a few players managed to complete the rounds in less than 70 strokes (on a 72 par), with Taipei’s Wei Yun-Jie scoring 68, and America’s Jones and South Africa’s Albert finishing with 69. Bubba Watson competed at this event and is now a multiple Major winner having won the Masters Tournament in 2012 and 2014. Other prestigious courses that have hosted events are Sun City (South Africa), Mission Hills (Shenzhen, China) and Crans Montana (Switzerland). We may conclude that the World University Golf Championship maintains its status as a favourite, not only among the world’s amateur Golf tournaments, but also and especially, among FISU competitions. In 2010, the Championship was hosted by the Spanish University Sport Federation (CEDU) on the course of Antequera (Malaga) and was really successful, setting at the time the participation record for a FISU World University Golf Championship with 135 golfers, but only to be surpassed by Liberec (Czech Republic) with 146 in 2012. This is the record for a Championship but 157 golfers from 30 countries participated in the Shenzhen 2011 Summer Universiade when Golf was an optional sport. The Men’s Individual Champion was Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) on 19 under par who turned professional in 2013 and won in January 2014 won the Memorial Tournament.

 

The next edition will take place in the city of Taichung (TPE) in 2020.     

 Statistics WUC Golf

Edition

Year

Country

City

N° of

Countries

M

W

Athletes

Officials

Total

1

1986

ITA

Cagliari

7

38

15

53

15

68

2

1988

ITA

Cagliari

9

47

15

62

16

78

3

1990

FRA

La Grande Motte

14

56

23

79

17

96

4

1992

ESP

Palma de Mallorca

14

56

35

91

39

130

5

1994

ESP

San Lorenzo

15

59

32

91

31

122

6

1996

SUI

Lausanne

21

82

47

129

38

167

7

1998

RSA

San Lameer

13

65

36

101

28

129

8

2000

GBR

Coleraine

15

61

37

98

35

133

9

2002

TPE

Tao-Yuan

13

61

34

95

29

124

10

2004

THA

Nakon Ratchasima

14

60

36

96

41

137

11

2006

ITA

Torino

17

73

53

126

48

174

12

2008

RSA

Sun City

18

68

44

112

48

160

13

2010

ESP

Malaga

21

82

53

135

60

195

14

2012

CZE

Liberec

19

89

57

146

57

203

15

2014

SUI

Crans-Montana

22

71

62

133

62

195

16

2016

FRA

Brive-le-Gallarde

 18 42 34 76 36 112

17

2018

PHI

Lubao Pampanga 

 13 36  30  66  30  96 

 

Statistics Golf as an optional sport at the Summer Universiade

Edition

Year

Country

City

N° of

Countries

M

W

Athletes

Officials

Total

24 2007 THA Bangkok            
26 2011 CHN Shenzhen            
28 2015 KOR Gwangju            
29 2017 TPE Taipei City