Alistair Dunsmuir

Prestwick St Cuthbert Golf Club in Ayrshire could convert its practice range into a 60-bed care home and 23 assisted living flats. 

A study in The Lancet has discovered that proximity to green spaces can significantly reduce the impact of postnatal depression (PND).  

Sport Aberdeen, which runs the Kings Link golf course, has shared shocking images of a green that has been damaged by a vehicle driving over it.

Lahinch Golf Club, rated as one of the best in Ireland, has said it enjoyed a record operating surplus in the last financial year.

The head of EventScotland, Robbie Clyde, the man who was project director for the 2014 Ryder Cup, has been named the new CEO of Scottish Golf.

New data on participation and membership in the first quarter of 2023 finds that the number of rounds played in the UK and Ireland remains very strong but membership numbers, particularly in Ireland, are starting to fall.

American Golf has put the four golf venues it acquired in the last two years up for sale as it will focus more on retail moving forward.

The John Lewis Partnership has sold the golf club it owns – and it has not gone to the nearby club that had been set to purchase it.

A new golf course in Yorkshire is to open on June 1, following a £15 million investment.

A new multi-million pound golf facility is to open in London in May.

A new survey of UK golf club managers has found that membership resignations have risen amid annual April subscription renewals.

Royal Dornoch is believed to be the first golf club in the world to install defibrillators and first aid kits on its buggies.  

Wales Golf has launched a new strategy for growing the game over the next five years, which focuses on five key areas.

The CEO of a charity that runs nine UK golf clubs has called for an independent review to take place before England Golf invests in a new clubhouse at Woodhall Spa.

The head of British Heart Foundation Scotland is encouraging people to take up golf as it will make them healthier and happier.

A Leicestershire golf club’s plan to build a 98-bedroom hotel on a disused nine-hole golf course has been rejected by its local borough council.

Perton Park Golf Club in Wolverhampton has been bought by The Mount Hotel Wolverhampton and will be renamed and will provide more leisure offerings.

Test Valley Golf Club in Hampshire has been given planning approval to carry out some major improvements to the venue.

A man who took the golf club he was a member of to court because it didn’t refund part of his subscriptions when he couldn’t play golf, due to Covid lockdowns, has lost his case.

A plan by a golf club in Scotland to build housing on land it owns will also include a new general practitioner (GP) surgery and 25 percent affordable housing.

Llanishen Golf Club has been named ‘Club of the Year’ by Wales Golf while Conwy Golf Club’s general manager, Matt Parsley, is ‘Welsh Golf Club Manager of the Year’.

Twenty golf clubs in Scotland have agreed a deal with train operating company ScotRail to offer discounts to golfers.

A golf club in Kent has suddenly and unexpectedly closed after its operator ceased trading, although there are hopes that it will reopen.

A professor of economics at the University of Stirling has said caddies at golf clubs that market to foreign visitors can boost local economies by hundreds of thousands of pounds every year.