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The International Golf Federation (IGF) awarded the city of Antalya, Turkey, the right to host the 2012 World Team Amateur Championships in Golf (WATC), its largest event. The 2012 championship will be held at Gloria Club, PGA Sultan, and Cornelia Golf Club Nick Faldo in Antalya.
Turkey was running against two other bids from Italy and Austria. Ahmet Agaoglu, President of the Turkish Golf Federation said, “It is a great honour for us to have been selected as a host for the 2012 edition of this great event”.
Golf in Turkey is growing extremely rapidly, and today’s success will add tremendous momentum to this development. The country is already committed to opening 100 new golf courses in the next 4 years. This encouragement follows on from the International Association of Golf Tour Operators who earlier this year voted Turkey as “the best Golf destination in Europe 2008”.
The World Amateur Team Championships (WATC) was founded in 1958 and is a biennial event run by the International Golf Federation in conjunction with the host nation’s governing body of golf. Over 100 men’s and women’s teams come from all over the world to compete for the Eisenhower Trophy (men) and the Espirito Santo Trophy (women) in one of three different zones: Asia/Pacific, European/African and American.
The next edition of the WATC will be held in 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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