US PGA Tour and Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club breaking new ground on and off the course
This week’s Clearwater Bay Open allowed both organisations to highlight their corporate social responsibility and community outreach programmes around the inaugural China Series event
This week’s Clearwater Bay Open has not only broken new ground for the China Series as the first event played outside of the mainland, but has also allowed it to align its charity footprint with what the PGA Tour is more accustomed to back home – and that is largely down to the Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club.
Having struggled to find suitable charitable causes in China since the circuit started in 2014, this week has finally allowed the PGA Tour to flex its corporate social responsibility (CSR) muscles with this week’s hosts.
The club regularly works with local charities and has raised over HK$80 million for local causes, while it also donates 14 days a year for organisations to run their own fund-raising events.
And this week’s event kicked off with a World Vision “Walk for Syria” event which saw 1,500 participants raise HK$1.5 million for the charity which works with children, families and communities living in poverty.
“This is one of the most stunning courses in China and has one of the most exceptional management structures,” said PGA Tour vice president and greater China managing director Greg Gilligan, who was at Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club this week with the venue listed as the “preferred golf destination of the PGA Tour in Hong Kong.”
