A golf club is dealing with a negative publicity storm after it suspended one of its greenkeepers, after he allowed a neighbouring animal sanctuary to take some of its irrigation water in an emergency.
The sand in the bunkers of Beauchief Golf Course in Sheffield is now made of recycled glass from beer bottles from the club’s bar.
One of the most respected golf course consultants in the world has become the latest high profile figure to state that increasing the size of hole cups in golf would be hugely beneficial to the game.
Golf club owner and tax campaigner Vivien Saunders has announced that she is standing for parliament at the forthcoming election – against prime minister David Cameron in his Oxfordshire seat of Witney.
One of England’s premier golf clubs, Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, has entered administration.
Peter Alliss has said that gender equality has led to thousands of women giving up golf. We look at the evidence – and find a very different conclusion.
A new survey has found that men play a huge role in tapping into the massive potential of women golfers – but they need to change their attitudes first.
It might not be a question every golf club committee has to debate, but it is one that is vexing a club in Lancashire after it emerged a former captain is a paedophile.
The head of sponsorship for HSBC, probably the biggest sponsor of golf in the world, has said that the game is at a crossroads and must now change.
A greenkeeper is suing Downfield Golf Club for a five-figure sum of money after slicing his foot with a chainsaw while working there.
After several years of legal wrangling, HMRC has agreed to make substantial payments to hundreds of private members’ golf clubs for overpaid VAT by April.
Several golf clubs and their managers have expressed their anger that the Open Championship will not be shown live on terrestrial television from 2017.
A new report has found that middle-aged men are increasingly swapping golf for cycling, because cycling is seen as a more welcoming and fun activity.
EXCLUSIVE: HMRC is set to argue that the amount it is due to pay private members’ golf clubs back in overpaid VAT should be reduced by at least half.
Two golf clubs close down for good and a third has said it will permanently shut down if a buyer is not found as problems continue for the industry.
An 18 hole proprietary golf club has downsized to nine holes and blamed its loss on a ‘VAT distortion’ in the golf industry that has caused it economic problems.
A Surrey golf club has closed down its golf course and is instead focussing entirely on FootGolf, the hybrid version of football and golf.
Two of the UK’s biggest media outlets, the BBC & The Telegraph, have both published articles identifying the problems golf is facing and offering solutions.
England Golf has warned that the industry is now in a ‘precarious position’ after its major survey revealed that club membership is still in sharp decline.
At least an astonishing 16 golf clubs, most worth millions, have been put up for sale in the UK in the last 13 weeks. We take a look at all of them.
AGCO chair, former British Open champion and campaigner for tax reform in golf, Vivien Saunders, is set to stand as an MP at the 2015 General Election.
The average age of people who play golf regularly in the UK is up an incredible 15 years from 48 to 63 in less than five years, according to data.
Hundreds of private members’ golf clubs are now almost certainly not going to receive any VAT repayments this year following a new tax chamber ruling.
Taunton Vale GC and Lostwithiel Golf & Country Club are both set to permanently close down this November, in a sign the industry is still in severe trouble.
One of the greatest golf clubs in the world, Royal Dornoch, will donate up to one percent of all the green fee income it receives to local good causes.
Britain’s youngest golf club manager is a 23-year-old woman called Ellie Green, research by Golf Club Management can reveal.
We look at the main golf clubs that closed down this summer – despite some signs of a recovery in the industry.
