Arora buys its second golf property 0
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The CEO of The R&A has said golf clubs should stop imposing rules on customers if they want to grow the game.
A company that deals with golf holidays has said the number of British users searching for Spanish locations has risen by more than 800 percent in the last 12 months.
From ending gendered tees to bringing in a new app to help golfers who’ve fallen ill on the course, November was another month of change for the golf industry.
Congratulations to Russell Smith, who has been named as the first general manager of The R&A’s new community golf facility in Glasgow.
Dunbar Golf Club is set to build a new clubhouse, short course, academy, driving range and greenkeeper facilities, funded by the creation of 78 homes.
A golf course in Yorkshire has had to close early after two large wild pigs found their way onto the course and injured two people.
A golf course in Manchester is to be sold to a property developer for nearly £40 million, and is likely to be converted into nearly 700 homes.
New data shows the number of rounds of golf played in the UK in the third quarter of 2021 are significantly up compared with 2019 and only slightly down on 2020.
For at least the third time this year, a car has been abandoned on a UK golf course and set on fire.
A Derbyshire club has erected signs around the course with CPR information and is using the What3Words app to inform emergency services of a patient’s precise location.
A masterplan for a £100 million golf resort, hotel and spa in Scotland has been submitted to Angus Council for planning consent.
A Scottish golf club is offering crates of wine to its members to make up for unused bar tabs during Covid lockdowns.
A golf club in Surrey has revealed that a national housebuilder has secured detailed planning permission to build 190 homes by it.
A Northern Irish golf club has said it is very saddened to learn that a man in his 50s died while trying to retrieve golf balls from one of its lakes.
An organisation that runs a wide range of cultural, countryside and sports services in East Ayrshire has revealed its golf course was the only non-online facility that performed well in the last financial year.