What Is World Golf Awards? All About Its Sponsors, Winner’s Prize, Nominations, and More

World Golf Awards is an award ceremony designed to honor the people, courses, and destinations of the golf world. The award ceremony is in its 10th year of celebration and over these past 10 years, the event has made a lot of buzz in the pro golfing world. 

The World Golf Awards is famous for its celebration of the sport. The event rewards the nominated entities in a fair head-to-head fight based on votes. The event functions as an annual awards program and is a part of the World Travel Awards. 

All you need to know about the 2023 World Golf Awards

World Golf Award on Tuesday celebrated its 10th annual Gala. The award gathering had big names from the golf world on the attendee list. The ceremony took place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Yas Island, Abu Dhabi.

At the ceremony, almost 50 award categories were present and winners were chosen from all over the world. The title holders were chosen based on an online voting conducted this year. Many representatives from the golf industry, the media, and the general public participated in this voting event to decide the eventual winner.

Winner’s Trophy

The trophy is a bronze figure, with a hardwood resting on top of it. A brass plate with the name of the category and winner adorns the base of the trophy.

Hosts and Partners

This year, the ceremony was hosted by Yas Links Abu Dhabi, Viya Golf, and Destination Golf Travel. Not just that, the official media partner list for this year’s event was pretty long (22), and the top names were Inside Golf, Travel & Leisure, Golf TV, and World Golf News.

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Who are the winners at the 2023 World Golf Awards? 

The list of winners for this year was quite lengthy. The nominations ranged between two to thirty for each of the 23 world categories with the World’s Best Eco-Friendly Golf Facility 2023 receiving thirty nominations alone. For the world category as a whole, the winners list looked as follows.

The 2023 event was a success. Now, after all this fervor, what awaits the golf fans next, only time will tell. Till then, stay tuned. 

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