The Rules of Golf: Giving a competitor advice 1
Shona McRae, Assistant Director – Rules, The R&A, explains what advice players in competitions are allowed to give their fellow competitors if there is confusion over a rule.
Shona McRae, Assistant Director – Rules, The R&A, explains what advice players in competitions are allowed to give their fellow competitors if there is confusion over a rule.
Next month Gullane GC is hosting two top competitions, including The Scottish Open. It’s thought about 850 will volunteer to help. The Golf Business speaks to the club about what this process entails.
A major manufacturer of holiday homes in the UK has launched a lodge designed for golf clubs to sell or rent out. The stunning building is LABC approved.
Writing exclusively for The Golf Business, the chief executive of the Professional Golfers’ Association explains why PGA members play such a pivotal role in the health of a golf club.
Despite their enormous financial potential, women remain under-represented in UK golf clubs. This week saw Women’s Golf Day, and we look to see what golf’s governing bodies are offering female golfers for the rest of 2018.
The chief executive of Wales Golf, Richard Dixon, writes exclusively for The Golf Business about the work his organisation is doing to encourage more women and girls into the game.
Yelverton Golf Club in Devon’s course manager explains how his team maintains a moorland course designed by the legendary Herbert Fowler, which sometimes suffers from 2,400mm of rainfall per year.
The golf industry’s trend towards nine-hole golf, lodges and programmes to get more women playing golf became apparent in May, according to The Golf Business editor, Alistair Dunsmuir.
Using soil excavated for a major London rail project, this spectacular golf club opened last summer and already has 1,400 members.
Oliver is the head professional at Headingley GC in Leeds and has just been crowned Partner of the Year at the TGI Golf Awards. He talks about the award and how he has increased profits via the club’s golf shop.
Aldeburgh Golf Club in Suffolk has commissioned a company that provides aerial flyovers of golf holes to market its spectacular 4th hole.
Is added value and innovation needed at your club? How do you decide?
The general manager of Burford GC in Oxfordshire talks about improving a club that already has a full membership and a joining fee and what it’s like to be an Australian managing a British golf club.
This guidance from the National Golf Clubs’ Advisory Association (NGCAA) looks at the legal issues golf clubs need to consider if they own or lease land.
The chief executive of the World Golf Foundation talks about the political and financial inroads golf is making throughout the world.
The PGA professional is often one of the most prominent figures at a golf club, yet there are some who question the importance of the position.
The PGA Merchandise Show, featuring more than 40,000 golf retailers and thousands of products, this year took place in Florida again. Reporting for The Golf Business was Sarah Forrest.
They might be about 400 miles apart on opposing ends of England, but The Point at Polzeath and Carus Green GC share at least one thing in common: Both had an extraordinary 2017.
From changing driving distances to a participation rate slump, The Golf Business editor Alistair Dunsmuir explores three issues that have emerged from some of our stories this month.
Burford GC in Oxfordshire still has a waiting list and charges a joining fee. We speak to Stuart Richens, the head greenkeeper, to find out what his team has done to the course
About four years ago Canterbury Golf Club in Kent bought the land on which the course resides. It then began a programme of improvements that have been so successful that the club has closed its membership
Dreaming of the perfect golf holiday in sunny Florida? Now you can make that dream come true by owning your own holiday home at St. James’s Club Resort
Andy is the general manager of The Village at Machrihanish Dunes on the Scottish peninsular of Kintyre. He talks about marketing a remote venue and working with potentially rival golf clubs
As greenkeeping just involves mowing grass, the role of the greenkeeper, the machinery used and the courses themselves haven’t changed much in 40 years, right? ‘Absolutely wrong’ argues Paul Copsey
The managing director of the TGI Golf Partnership – which helps PGA professionals achieve more with their shops – talks about his career and offers his views on the ever-changing golf industry
Video massively boosts engagement on social media. Golf courses make perfect videos. Why aren’t more golf clubs using video in their social media marketing strategies?
At the end of last year a VAT case between Littlewoods and HMRC was settled. This brought to an end the dispute between many golf clubs and HMRC over the VAT they had overpaid on green fees