Douglas Valley applies for two wind turbines 0
Douglas Valley Golf Club in Bolton has applied to its local council to install two wind turbines on its golf course. A spokesman for the club said: “The wind turbines
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The Bristol Golf Club abolishes its dress code – and tee times 0
The Bristol Golf Club in Almondsbury has abolished its dress code – and even tee times – for one of its courses, in a bid to attract more beginners to the club. The club has also restructured its pricing for
Steven Brown: The calculations needed to work out how profitable your F&B stock is 0
As you read this article a number of you may be wondering why, given your current daily tasks, you need to understand the stock-taking document that arrives on your desk periodically showing only a slight surplus or deficit. While I
Noel Mackenzie: Why the winter is the perfect time to prepare for next summer 0
A key element of summer work is competition conditioning, where the course should be in peak condition and the greens hold a good and sustainable speed. The quality of surface for tournaments and even regular club play needs to be
Eco label for Chinese golf club 0
With golf currently booming in China, JINJI LAKE GOLF CLUB has become the first in the country to be certified by the GEO – providing an ‘ecolabel’ for the club. The Gary Player-designed course was created eight years ago on
How to make your golf club disability friendly 0
The process of making your golf club accessible starts by first identifying how your course and clubhouse present the barriers that make a person’s impairment disabling. The options available under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) to overcome barriers to access
Club Profile: Windlesham GC – How eco work and reciprocal deals has attracted new business 0
A few years ago the BBC ran a poll for Britain’s favourite road. The fact that it was won by a small street in Newcastle suggests that not too many golf enthusiasts took part. Because if they had surely nothing
Noel Mackenzie: Things to consider before purchasing course machinery 0
What is needed to run a course well? The amount of equipment is usually contingent on key, and normally interlinked, factors such as: • The number of staff and how they are used • Technical issues – the problems the
Steven Brown: Making your food and beverage operation more profitable 0
If you get turned on by key figures and industry norms then you will just love this! In this feature we are going to focus upon the use of facts and data that are available to you to use as
Club Profile: Turnberry Golf Club 1
World renowned for hosting one of the most famous final round shootouts in Open history, Turnberry Golf Club is a unique entity in golf today. The club has become part of a modern hotel and resort, but its bond with
Noel Mackenzie: The winter diseases clubs need to be wary of 0
Late December and early January are not very nice times of year for grass. We are smart enough to be ensconced in warm centrally-heated buildings or cars for much of our existence. It is rare, even for the most ardent
Club Profile: Goodwood’s innovative membership subscription scheme 2
The Goodwood House is currently home to the Earl of March and Kinrara (Lord March), who took over the management of the Goodwood Estate Company, and chairmanship of Goodwood’s main golf course, from his father, the 10th Duke of Richmond,
Loughgall Golf Club uses compost to improve drainage 0
Recent wet summers, especially 2007 and 2008, left a nightmare legacy for golf clubs, with ground waterlogged so badly that courses had to close for weeks on end and grass was left uncut because the ground was too soft to
Should clubs be worried about terrorism at golf tournaments? 0
Preposterous. Ridiculous. Inconceivable. A few years ago, the very thought of a terrorist attack on a golf tournament would have been as unlikely as Bruce Forsyth winning the Open – nice bloke and decent golfer that he is. But after
Noel Mackenzie: Too little ecology goes into golf course design 0
Leading agronomist Noel Mackenzie has said that too little topography and ecology goes into golf course design. He said: “The non-playing ‘other’ surfaces include grass, heather, scrub, trees, water courses or lakes and other habitat types. “The ‘other’ is not just
Steven Brown: How to calculate profit and loss in the bar and restaurant 1
Whenever I am called in to assess the viability of a food and beverage (F&B) outlet there are some key financial facts I will review every time. I thought I might share them with you as a guide to enable
Essex club keeps greens green due to composting 0
According to the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), there are a number of reasons why compost, produced from garden waste such as grass cuttings, prunings and leaves, has such good water retention properties and can be of considerable benefit. The
Renovate tees, greens and fairways now, says top agronomist 0
One of Britain’s top agronomists has said that golf clubs should renovate their tees, greens and fairways as far ahead of winter as possible. Noel Mackenzie said: “There are a number of key areas where changes take place to the
What is the role of a course manager? 4
A good course manager runs his / her business as if it’s their own, while ensuring that the golfers have an enjoyable experience. Easier said than done perhaps, since the course manager has the delicate task of balancing sound agronomics
Are online tee times for your club? 0
It seems that every week another golf club revamps its website for one main purpose: to make it possible for members, and increasingly visitors, to book tee times on the facility. Recently Kingsbarns Golf Links in Scotland launched a new
How to use clubhouse space more efficiently 3
As can be seen in Stuart Phipps’ article in the May 2011 issue of Golf Club Management, refurbishing the clubhouse is ambitious, expensive and can be risky – even for the wealthier clubs that Stuart advised to take advantage of
Rules of Golf: Artificial objects obstructing golf balls 1
A total of 96 rulings were given during the first round of the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George’s with an average of 82 rulings per day throughout the tournament. Many of these involved relief from the grandstands and
Why defibrillators are saving lives at golf clubs 3
While there are very few studies in this country about the relationship between golf and heart attacks, many managers may not be surprised to know that the American Heart Association believes that, due to a range of reasons including the
Scores of people join Bramshaw Golf Club after it provided free coaching lessons 0
We all know there is no such thing as a free lunch, and this mantra, when it refers to coaching, has proven, and is proving, to be true and particularly beneficial to golf clubs. During March and April Crown Golf
How one golf club’s finances are healthy because it has installed a wind turbine 2
For several years, almost unnoticed, golf course landscapes in this country have changed as several clubs have built wind turbines by their holes, as they have benefited from, so to speak, the huge windfalls they can bring in. However, this
The clubs that are making huge profits through hosting weddings 1
With almost every golf club exploring revenue streams in addition to selling golf memberships these days, it is hardly surprising that many have now set themselves up as wedding venues. Often out of town and off the beaten track, lush
Insurer’s Perspective 0
The areas of security and insurance are of course intrinsically linked. Often it feels like it is insurers that drive golf clubs towards improving their security as a condition of the policy but rarely are they insisting on anything that
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