Despite a wide-ranging career background, it was Anna Nilsson’s love of golf that meant she moved 1,000 miles to take up a greenkeeping role at The Belfry – a job she hopes will inspire other women to take up. Here, she details her story.
Golf was one of the few sports to return quickly after lockdown and after numerous years of the sports participation levels on a continuous downward spiral, suddenly, the sport was once again hot property.
The growth in demand for golf is showing no signs of slowing as Europe’s largest online golf community, HowDidiDo, has reported unprecedented usage in just the last two months.
A survey of golf course designers across the world has found almost unanimous support for measures to reduce hitting distances in golf.
As grass mortality rates are higher than ever, greenkeepers want resilience within the sward. This, argues Noel MacKenzie, is why overseeding is essential, and why aeration, to ensure seed-soil contact, and choosing the right seed, is equally vital.
The chief executive of The R&A, Martin Slumbers, has said the surge in demand to play golf in the UK since May has provided an opportunity for golf clubs to secure their futures.
Some golf clubs have been so badly hit by the pandemic that they need to make employment cost savings. Here, the NGCAA outlines the alternatives to making a member of staff redundant.
Another golf club in Scotland has reported an unprecedented membership boost, particularly among younger people, since clubs reopened at the end of spring.
A Gloucestershire golf course that has been in existence since 1927 is to close down next year – and will likely be at least the sixth UK venue to close amid Covid-19.
New data from Ireland suggests that shorter and quicker versions of golf than what can be played on 18-hole full-length courses is soaring at the moment.
A Cheshire golf club has been praised by its local community because a team of its members have been helping people who have been shielding due to Covid-19, including even working with a local supermarket to help them.
Golfers will have to have an email address if they want to have an official handicap from this November, according to England Golf.
An 88-year-old golf venue opened by Sir Henry Cotton and featuring four small courses is to become the fourth UK facility since the pandemic started to close down.
Two UK golf clubs, nearly 600 miles apart, have become the latest to report an extraordinary rise in membership since May, with many of the new members being under the age of 40.
You might expect that manager Chris Duffy, who was made redundant due to Covid-19, would argue that club committees are bulwarks to the progress of the club. But, here he makes the case for his former board – stating they enhanced his role.
BRS Golf is using its software to ensure its 100,000 new golfers in the UK this year retain their memberships next year, writes Karen Moss, marketing manager for GolfNow International.
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Two golf clubs in Lanarkshire have agreed to work together in order to grow the game at both venues.
The Caddyboo Golf Towel is a water-retaining cleaning system meticulously fabricated with a magnetic seal that promises to leave your golf ball spotless.
Meteorological equipment specialist Biral has launched a new website for its lightning warning system.
There has been a seismic shift in golfing demographics in the UK this summer, new figures reveal, as younger golfers have become the dominant buyers of green fees for the first time.
A Gloucestershire golf course has become the latest UK venue to be damaged in an appalling act of vandalism.
An Indian-born novelist who lives in Ireland has written about her love of golf to show that much of the current criticism of clubs amid ‘Golfgate’ is inaccurate.
New data analysing golf activity around the world has found growth everywhere in recent weeks – with the UK leading the way.
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