Younger people now dominate the pay-and-play golf market 7
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.
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.
Liverpool City Council’s planners are recommending approval for a £15 million golf course development – which could become the third major golf investment to go ahead in northern England at roughly the same time.
New research on online searches for golf breaks broken down by the English counties people want to visit has found that Lincolnshire has seen the biggest jump in the last year.
From the sharp rise in planning applications to build houses to the growth in demand to play golf continuing unabated, August has rounded off a far better summer for the golf industry than what was feared a few months ago.
A golf club has had to close down for ‘several days’ after quad bikers drove onto the course and tore up many of the greens and fairways.
At least 12 golf clubs that feared their closure was imminent during the lockdown have stated their futures are now secure thanks to the recent membership surge.
A Scottish golf club is to redesign two of its holes after several stray balls landed in a neighbour’s garden – and that property is the home of Rangers FC’s chairman.
At least three UK golf clubs have closed their clubhouses for periods of up to 72 hours in the last few days, after members who had been in them either tested positive for Covid-19 or had failed to self-isolate when they were meant to.
Golf clubs in Ireland have until early September to apply for a one-off €10,000 payment to help boost their operating performance following the coronavirus disruption.
A driving range in Manchester has seen what is believed to be the most amount of golf balls ever to be hit in one day at a UK range – 73,000.
The trend of golf clubs applying to build large numbers of houses on their land appears to be growing, as another two have submitted planning applications.
A new survey of 75 golf clubs suggests that the UK has probably already seen more rounds of golf played this year than in the whole of 2019, even though most courses were closed for about two months.
The course manager at Banchory Golf Club in Aberdeenshire explains why the venue is an ecological haven that is rightfully being recognised for environmental best practice.
A Merseyside council, which earlier this year said it would invest heavily in golf, has said it is offering free golf for the next 12 months to anyone under the age of 16.
The CEO of England Golf has revealed that English golf clubs have collectively seen 20,000 new members join them in the three months since most venues reopened.
Two major Irish golf clubs are predicting that green fee losses caused by Covid-19 will run into millions of pounds between them just for 2020.
An historic golf course in Aberdeen has said it will be on temporary greens for the rest of the year and into 2021 after a chemical was applied in error earlier this summer, causing significant damage.
Panmure GC is one of the oldest golf clubs in the world. Its manager only took over last year – here he talks us through what’s been going on, from introducing new technology to surviving the lockdown.
A plan to create an international golf destination in Bolton has been given the go ahead by the government.
A national legal advisor to golf clubs says it has worked with a record number of venues since the pandemic started.
A golfer nicknamed ‘The Iron Golfer’ has, incredibly, played three different 18-hole golf courses, at three different golf clubs, in less than three hours – and the time includes him running to each venue.
The R&A is hoping to buy a struggling golf course in Glasgow and turn it around by developing it into a ‘blueprint for how golf can be offered’ in the future.
A new survey of UK private members’ golf clubs finds 37 percent have cash flow issues despite the recent boom in demand to play the game, and some may close down in 2021 as a result.
New figures that compare the number of rounds of golf played in the UK in the second quarter of 2020 with 2019 suggest there has been record-breaking growth – even though, paradoxically, they actually show the biggest fall ever.