Two trends in particular dominated the final month of the year: More data showing that participation remains strong and more clubs opting to build housing on land they own.
Brora Golf Club in the Highlands feared permanent closure when the pandemic struck two years ago – but the club enters 2022 on a sound financial footing.
The secretary of England and Wales Blind Golf (EWBG) asks golf clubs to consider what they are doing for visually impaired men and women.
The membership at a golf club in Norwich has doubled as more clubs are posting huge growth amid the pandemic.
The owner of land that a golf club resides on in Lancashire hopes to downsize it from 18 to nine holes and use the space created to build an ‘entertainment centre’ and holiday lodges.
Angus Council in eastern Scotland is to spend £20,000 on a study to stop flooding at Arbroath Golf Course.
Two golf clubs, one in Tyne and Wear and one in West Sussex, have revealed they have been under repeated attack by vandals lately.
Europe will travel in 2023 to Rome at the Marco Simeone Club in an attempt to regain the Ryder Cup after suffering a record-breaking 19-9 defeat at Whistling Straits in 2021.
The Arora Group, the UK’s largest private hotel owner-operator, has purchased Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa from Elite Hotels for an undisclosed sum.
Boringdon Park Golf Club in Plymouth has struck a £500,000 deal with Toro that has seen its entire fleet of course machinery replaced following a devastating fire in early 2021.
When dealing with employees, there are five potentially fair reasons for dismissal, which are set out within the Employment Rights Act 1996.
Scotland has seen an even bigger increase in the number of members of golf clubs in 2021 than it did in 2020, meaning that the country now has the highest number of golf club members in seven years.
New figures from The R&A and SMS show 66.6 million people around the world are golfers – a figure that is significantly up on the previous highest number of 61.6 million in 2012.
One of the oldest golf clubs in Wales has been saved from closure for the second time in six months following two distinct threats, and will now close for just 12 months and return as a ‘carbon neutral golf club’.
A greenkeeper has been told he probably saved the life of a golfer who suffered a heart attack on the course.
The club manager of Hurtmore GC in Surrey talks about how the club has changed during the pandemic, her background of working in PR and increasing the women’s section at the club.
A new 18-hole golf course in north London is to be renamed following the deaths of golf course architect Pete Dye in 2020, and his son, Perry, in 2021.
The R&A has named The Toro Company as a founding partner and official golf course maintenance partner for its planned community golf facility at Lethamhill in Glasgow.
Hitachi has a revolutionary finance product for clubs that want to attract new members and retain existing ones.
Another three golf clubs have revealed that they are set to have housing built on them.
A Yorkshire golf club has said that vandals have driven over the course on quad bikes, causing more than £25,000 of damage.
A historic golf club in Scotland has set up a GoFundMe page in order to save it from permanently closing down.
The last golf club in Ireland to have never had a female member has said it will end what was its effectively men-only membership policy and will now welcome ‘all genders’.
The landlord of a golf club has failed in its bid to contest a charity’s decision to terminate its lease during the pandemic, less than a year after acquiring it.
Vandals have driven onto the course of the number one rated golf venue in Herefordshire and damaged the surface – and they have since approached a greenkeeper to admit to the crime.
Competitors played two 18-hole rounds in two days, and some players completed both rounds in under 40 minutes, shooting close to par both times.
As soon as a guest enters your clubhouse, the interior design makes a major contribution to the ambience.
