Article: Taiwan's golf gear makers upbeat with sport's return to Olympics.(Brief article)

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The Taiwan Economic News
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October 15, 2009
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Taipei, Oct. 15, 2009 (CENS)--Taiwan's golf equipment makers are seeing greener future since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently announced to relist golf and football as Olympic sports to be held in 2016 and 2020.

K.W. Lee, chairman of O-TA Precision Casting Co., Taiwan's leading golf equipment manufacturer, indicated that golf had been dropped as an Olympic sport for more than a century, but its reenlistment would help to energize the golf industry, especially with Tiger Woods as the de-facto spokesman and living legend.

Lee said that golf, traditionally an elitist sport exclusive to the rich and a small segment of privileged officials, ... 







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