http://new.danwashburn.com Writer: Shanghai, China Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:42:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My Financial Times Weekend Magazine cover story about the highly secretive development of the world's largest collection of golf courses on southern China's Hainan Island came out over the weekend, and so far the reception has been largely positive. Popular golf blogs and sports blogs have tossed around the word ... http://new.danwashburn.com/2010/01/05/financial-times-weekend-magazine-%e2%80%9cgolf%e2%80%99s-secret-boom-in-hainan-china%e2%80%9d/ This story appeared January 2, 2010 in the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Original version here (subscription required). Golf writer: Woods aloof But Bloom native covering Shanghai tournament says focus makes Tiger the world's greatest player By MICHAEL LESTER Press Enterprise Writer SHANGHAI, China — Bloomsburg native Dan Washburn shadowed Tiger Woods around a golf ... http://new.danwashburn.com/2010/01/02/interview-in-my-hometown-newspaper-january-2-2010/ As China readied to host a $7 million WGC event, local golf pros who pioneered the sport face a new reality: The party may be winding down for them. China's most unlikely golf champ took his seat at a neighborhood restaurant in the dark, sooty suburbs near Beijing's international airport and ... http://new.danwashburn.com/2009/11/10/last-call-my-golf-world-cover-story-from-nov-9-2009/ The first time Tiger ventured to China, he met little Cindy Feng. As Woods returns to the Far East this week, she recalls how that meeting sparked an interest in golf for her and for a nation. Read the story The cavalcade that followed Tiger in Round 1 of the HSBC ... http://new.danwashburn.com/2009/11/10/coverage-of-the-hsbc-champions-in-shanghai-for-espncom/ My story from the September 2009 issue of Silkroad, the in-flight magazine of Hong Kong-based airline Dragonair. http://new.danwashburn.com/2009/10/28/green-shoots-meet-chinas-new-generation-of-talented-golfers/ My story about China's next generation of golfing talent, from the Spring 2009 issue of Omega Lifetime magazine (Chinese edition). http://new.danwashburn.com/2009/10/28/story-on-youth-movement-in-chinese-golf-from-omega-lifetime-mag-in-chinese/ My work is featured in the 2008 book Inside The Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On, an anthology of the best of participatory sports journalism, edited by Zachary Michael Jack and published by the University of Nebraska Press. Here's the product description: Most of us will never know what it’s like to ... http://new.danwashburn.com/2009/06/02/book-inside-the-ropes-sportswriters-get-their-game-on/ The story the government didn't want to be told SHENYANG, Liaoning -- I expected Mr. Shi to be waiting for me at the train station with a cold beer in one hand and an itinerary in the other. In the weeks leading up to my departure from Shanghai, and during my ... http://new.danwashburn.com/2008/10/07/shenyang-the-truth-flows-with-the-wine/ HENGSHUI, Jiangxi -- "I don't understand why so many people just want to stay in the village. They don't want change. They don't want a better life." Eighteen-year-old Miao Jiao -- Jo, as I know her -- is in limbo, hovering between two different worlds, two different eras. She attends college ... http://new.danwashburn.com/2008/10/07/fireworks-factories-coal-mines-and-cute-little-puppies/ HAOYI, Shanxi -- The electricity goes out almost every day in tiny Haoyi village. It's the sad irony of China's economic boom: The province that fuels much of the country's growth and modernization often can't afford to fuel itself. Haoyi village, with 4,000 shy and skeptical inhabitants, is an odd, isolated ... http://new.danwashburn.com/2008/10/07/haoyi-village-there-were-more-blue-skies-10-years-ago/