London, United Kingdom · 30th December 2025
WPSL Group And International Pairs Announce Strategic Cooperation To Unify Global Amateur Golf Under One Platform
A scaled model designed to strengthen tournaments, empower license partners, and widen opportunity for amateur golfers worldwide
The World Players Super League (WPSL) Group today announces a strategic cooperation with International Pairs, one of the world’s most widely recognised amateur tournament brands, bringing the parties together under a single platform intended to raise standards, expand opportunity, and increase commercial appeal across the amateur game.
International Pairs brings a historic participation footprint of 2.5 million+ playing amateurs, supported by an established licensing model and finals heritage.
WPSL brings a proven institutional platform strategy, modern distribution capability, and a repeatable growth framework grounded in the billion pound blueprint business merger model.
Together, WPSL and International Pairs intend to build a unified proposition that protects what makes International Pairs distinctive, while enabling it to benefit from platform-level scale, enhanced visibility, and stronger partnership reach.
Why this cooperation matters
Amateur golf is global in demand, yet fragmented in delivery. Many competitions are well-run, well-loved and culturally important in their markets, but they often operate in parallel—each building independently, each negotiating sponsorship independently, and each limited by local scale.
WPSL’s platform thesis is deliberately straightforward: unify leading competitions under one group architecture so they can grow faster together than they can apart—while preserving the identity and heritage of each competition brand.
International Pairs remains International Pairs: its format, licensing model and brand equity are retained and strengthened by being placed within a larger platform that brings shared capability, shared visibility and a more investable narrative to partners and sponsors.
Institutional credibility: a proven consolidation discipline, now applied globally
WPSL is led by Feisal Nahaboo, who previously founded and scaled Xeinadin (leading accountancy group In Uk and Ireland), widely recognised as a leading UK professional services consolidator. WPSL’s strategy is informed by that experience—what institutional stakeholders expect, how governance must be framed, and how value compounds when structure, standards and execution are aligned.
WPSL positions this cooperation with International Pairs as an example of the model being applied for the first time to global amateur golf, with greater reach and greater ambition than prior consolidations. The objective is to build the most investable platform in its category—credible in its standards, rigorous in its execution, and accessible to non-golf investors through clarity of structure and repeatable economics.
This is the billion pound blueprint business model applied to amateur golf: unify fragmented assets, professionalise the platform layer, and create compounding value through scale and distribution—while protecting the integrity of the underlying brands.
The wider platform strategy
The International Pairs cooperation sits within a broader WPSL platform build that is bringing additional participation bases, competition formats and travel capability into one structured group model. WPSL believes this multi-competition approach strengthens each tournament by increasing shared reach, increasing sponsor attractiveness, and enabling players to participate in a richer calendar—without requiring any single competition to carry the platform alone.
Feisal Nahaboo, Founder & CEO, WPSL Group said:
“International Pairs is a globally recognised brand with genuine history—2.5 million playing amateurs is not a statistic you can manufacture. This cooperation is about unification with integrity: one platform, one standard, one business model, while protecting what makes each competition special. We have built immediate distribution—310,000 YouTube subscribers in our opening year and an estimated 20 million social reach through our players—and we are applying the billion pound blueprint business merger model, refined through my prior consolidation experience, to build something bigger in global reach and ambition than anything we achieved before. Our intent is simple: raise standards, widen opportunity, and build the most credible, investable platform in amateur golf.”
Gerhard Conradie, Shareholder, International Pairs:
“International Pairs has always been about trusted competition and a global community. Working with WPSL gives us platform strength without losing identity. For our license partners, it strengthens the commercial story and the support structure. For players, it opens a wider competitive world while keeping the International Pairs format at the centre.”
Johan Scholtz, Shareholder, International Pairs:
“The priority for us is protecting the integrity of International Pairs and enabling it to grow. WPSL brings structure, standards and distribution capability. That combination strengthens what our partners deliver locally and gives International Pairs a stronger long-term position in a changing market.”
Jose Guerra, International Pairs:
“This cooperation is about elevation. International Pairs has proven global demand over many years. By connecting to a larger platform, we can enhance visibility, strengthen partner outcomes and create even more compelling experiences for players—while keeping the spirit and identity of International Pairs intact.”
About WPSL Group
The World Players Super League (WPSL) Group is building a global amateur golf platform combining tournaments, travel and strategic golf-related businesses under one group structure, with the objective of creating a scalable, investable, institutional-grade organisation.
About International Pairs
International Pairs is a globally recognised amateur golf tournament brand supported by an international licensing model and a long-standing participation history, connecting amateur golfers across countries through structured tournaments and finals.
2026 International Pairs
Hosted in (TBC)
30 Licensees Operate Approx 2,000 Tournaments In The Following Countries
Angola
Australia
Botswana
Brasil
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
England
Egypt
Ghana
India
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jersey (UK)
Kenya
Malaysia
Mexico
Nambia
Nigeria
Portugal
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Thailand
Uganda
Ukraine
Wales
Zimbabwe
Vietnam
How does it work?
The 2026 International Pairs is staged across 30 countries, with approximately 50,000 players competing through local qualifying events for the opportunity to progress to their National Final.
Each participating country then crowns its national champions, who earn the right to represent their nation at the 2026 International Pairs World Final.
World Final format
The World Final is contested as a betterball pairs championship, played using handicap. The tournament comprises three competitive rounds, delivering a true test of consistency and performance across the week.
Scale and status
With 100+ players taking part in the World Final, International Pairs is widely regarded as the largest betterball pairs tournament final of its kind worldwide.
There’s also 3 Divisions including Mens (Championship), Ladies and Mixed Pairs.
