Three Edinburgh courses vandalised by motorcyclists 4
Three golf courses in Edinburgh have experienced balaclava-wearing motorbike riding youths tearing up the courses and threatening golfers who try to challenge them in recent days.
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Family golf club acquires nearby venue 1
A family golf venue in Cambridgeshire has taken over a nearby golf course.
St Andrews set for a new world-class golf course 3
The company behind the Fairmont Hotel in St Andrews has applied for permission to Fife Council to convert its two golf courses into one world-class facility.
Welsh golf club launches plan to fight coastal erosion 0
A 19th century links venue is to construct a ‘coastal defence project’ featuring ‘mattresses’ made of steel frames and filled with stone to protect the course from erosion.
Hazel Grove named ‘English golf club of the year’ 1
Hazel Grove Golf Club in Cheshire has been named ‘Club of the Year’ at the 2022 England Golf Awards.
Irish club rebounds following Covid losses 0
A major Irish golf club that was hit by large losses in the first year of the pandemic has seen a surge in income in the last 12 months.
Whittington Heath opens HS2 course 2
A golf club that had to be significantly redesigned because the HS2 railway line was planned to cut through it, has reopened.
‘Playing golf at least once per month lowers the risk of premature death’ 1
The American Heart Association (AHA), one of the world’s leading sources of information on cardiovascular disease in the world, has promoted the health benefits of golf.
Golf club membership is soaring in England 2
Golf club membership in England has risen by more than 100,000 since the pandemic started, and most of that in the last year, according to official figures.
Underground golf course to open in Wales next month 1
A multi-levelled underground golf course is to open in an old slate mining cavern in Wales, accessed via Europe’s steepest cable railway.
Welsh golf club offers midnight golf to Muslims during Ramadan 2
A Welsh golf club has opened up its driving range and academy area late at night to offer the chance for Muslims to break their fast and then practice their golf or learn to play.
New driving range and academy proposed for Cheshire 0
A company has applied to build a new driving range and academy centre in Cheshire.
More than a third of UK golfers are women 1
More than one in three golfers in the UK are women, a considerable rise from pre-pandemic levels.
Golf Kingdom reopens following £750,000 revamp 1
The family golf and leisure park, Golf Kingdom, in Chadwell Heath, has officially reopened following a £750k overhaul of facilities.
Sussex venue hopes to convert par three course into housing 1
A golf venue has submitted plans to convert its par three course into housing.
Closed golf club could be reopened 2
A Lincolnshire golf club that closed down in 2018 could be reopened amid the participation boom of the last two years.
Apology to the GCMA over April Fools joke 1
We are happy to admit that the story about rival nominees for golf club awards fighting was in fact an April Fools Day joke.
Bomb squad detonates ‘unexploded WWII bomb’ on golf course 3
A golf club that had closed just a few hours earlier due to a council budgeting crisis has controversially been used as the location to blow up an unexploded bomb.
American Golf reports best-ever year 4
American Golf has reported that the last year was the best financial year in its entire history.
Number of UK golfers has nearly doubled in just four years 1
New figures reveal adult on-course golf participation in Great Britain in 2021 was nearly double the figure from four years earlier.
US firm set to buy second Northern Irish property 1
A US private real estate company that purchased a luxury golf hotel in Northern Ireland last year is set to acquire another venue.
Here’s three major trends from the last month in the UK golf industry 1
From a major new UK golf resort getting the green light to go ahead to seven golf clubs looking for new operators, March 2022 was an interesting month for the industry.
Foreign golf clubs see surge in UK spring bookings 0
Golf clubs in the Mediterranean and the Middle East have reported a surge in bookings from UK golfers this spring.
Shropshire golf club unexpectedly closes 0
A Shropshire golf club that had just seen its plans to build accommodation on the venue rejected by its local council has suddenly closed.
Loss-making venue hopes to replace golf course with lodges 0
A nine-hole golf club in Great Yarmouth is bidding to transform into a countryside holiday haven by building 80 lodges and a spa – including over the golf course.
Golfers are ‘unaware’ of eco work golf clubs do 1
A new survey has found that while many golf clubs carry out environmental best-practice measures, they could do better at communicating this to golfers.
Arsonists set fire to Scottish golf course 0
Teenage vandals have set fire to a part of a Scottish golf course.
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