Back to homepage

Features

Noel Mackenzie: Why it is pivotal that greenkeepers are well informed about course machinery

Noel Mackenzie: Why it is pivotal that greenkeepers are well informed about course machinery 0

🕔19:18, 20.Oct 2011

The quality of any course is a delicate balance between the level of play and the surface standards that are desirable and achievable on the budget, equipment and wherewithal of the staff involved.

Read Full Article
The story behind the three famous paintings of Conwy Golf Club

The story behind the three famous paintings of Conwy Golf Club 6

🕔19:13, 20.Oct 2011

David Williams is leading a campaign to explain the link between three of the most famous images of golf known throughout the world and their origin at his home club of Conwy (Caernarvonshire) in north Wales.

Read Full Article
Readers’ Q&A with Steven Brown on F&B pricing

Readers’ Q&A with Steven Brown on F&B pricing 0

🕔13:41, 20.Oct 2011

“My problem is that the committee is requiring a 60 per cent margin, which I believe to be excessive, as our chief source of income is the faithful bar snack.”

Read Full Article
Noel Mackenzie: The common problems and solutions with irrigation

Noel Mackenzie: The common problems and solutions with irrigation 0

🕔13:35, 20.Oct 2011

Managing water is crucial to the successful management of a golf course. It seems we either have too much of it or not enough of it!

Read Full Article
Greg Norman reveals the principles of the design of his St Lucia golf resort

Greg Norman reveals the principles of the design of his St Lucia golf resort 0

🕔13:31, 20.Oct 2011

Greg Norman is the CEO of the course design company Great White Shark Enterprises and a recent project, at Westin’s Le Paradis Beach and Golf Resort in Praslin Bay, St. Lucia, opened in 2008.

Read Full Article
Noel Mackenzie: How to get value for money on seeds and fertilisers

Noel Mackenzie: How to get value for money on seeds and fertilisers 0

🕔11:58, 20.Oct 2011

Seed purchases need to be carefully thought through.

Read Full Article
Noel Mackenzie: How technology – and Ronan Rafferty – can help greenkeepers

Noel Mackenzie: How technology – and Ronan Rafferty – can help greenkeepers 0

🕔09:35, 20.Oct 2011

Planning for summer is a means by which the goals for the course are reached.

Read Full Article
How to make your membership categories more attractive

How to make your membership categories more attractive 0

🕔16:31, 19.Oct 2011

The popularity of golf is on the increase and a whole new generation of golfers, including women and children, are queuing up to tee off.

Read Full Article
Tips for attracting women to join your golf club

Tips for attracting women to join your golf club 2

🕔16:21, 19.Oct 2011

Europe’s largest ever survey of sport and active recreation rates golf the seventh most popular sport in England.

Read Full Article
Noel Mackenzie: The growing season is lasting longer – costing your club more money

Noel Mackenzie: The growing season is lasting longer – costing your club more money 0

🕔16:11, 19.Oct 2011

The current, longer, growing season has begun to have some very important implications in relation to machinery, budgeting and purchasing.

Read Full Article
Steven Brown: How the backfitting of your bar is your greatest drinks’ marketing asset

Steven Brown: How the backfitting of your bar is your greatest drinks’ marketing asset 0

🕔16:02, 19.Oct 2011

Merchandising is the art of silent selling, it is the ability to display your most profitable products to their best advantage and it is about making money.

Read Full Article
Steven Brown: How to make your food and beverage operation stand out

Steven Brown: How to make your food and beverage operation stand out 0

🕔14:26, 19.Oct 2011

It really doesn’t matter that you know how to read a profit and loss account, a balance sheet and a break-even point if you haven’t generated any profitable income in the first place.

Read Full Article
Three golf clubs praised for their environmental work

Three golf clubs praised for their environmental work 0

🕔14:21, 19.Oct 2011

Hankley Common, Beaconsfield and Royal St George’s golf clubs have been praised for their quality of ecological stewardship.

Read Full Article
Cowglen GC receives £11k following water audit

Cowglen GC receives £11k following water audit 0

🕔14:13, 19.Oct 2011

Cowglen Golf Club in Scotland has received £11,000 after it examined its water costs and usage in detail to ensure best value.

Read Full Article
Noel Mackenzie: Why club captains should not dictate changes to a  golf course

Noel Mackenzie: Why club captains should not dictate changes to a golf course 0

🕔14:07, 19.Oct 2011

The landscape of a golf course should be unique; every course has its own character and charm.

Read Full Article
Club Profile: Broughton Heath – a thriving par three golf course

Club Profile: Broughton Heath – a thriving par three golf course 0

🕔14:00, 19.Oct 2011

Broughton Heath, in the Derbyshire countryside not far from Dovedale in the tiny village of Church Broughton, is an 18-hole golf course with 18 par three holes.

Read Full Article
Stuart Phipps: How to convert ‘nomads’ into golf club members

Stuart Phipps: How to convert ‘nomads’ into golf club members 0

🕔09:34, 19.Oct 2011

It is no use existing clubs fighting each other for members: unattached golfers – ‘nomads’ – have to be converted into members – and that means clubs must provide what they want.

Read Full Article
The key to successful marketing is your club’s database

The key to successful marketing is your club’s database 0

🕔09:24, 19.Oct 2011

As winter draws closer, the number of visiting parties decrease and the frequency of member visits to the course start to decline, it is a time of year when thoughts should be turning to winter work.

Read Full Article
Noel Mackenzie: Prepare the course now for winter, so it can be prepared for next summer

Noel Mackenzie: Prepare the course now for winter, so it can be prepared for next summer 0

🕔09:17, 19.Oct 2011

As the sun gets lower in the sky and daylight hours shorten so the plants on the golf green receive less light and heat reducing the ability of the grass to maintain condition under low cutting heights.

Read Full Article
How Epsom Golf Club increased its junior section from 26 to 108

How Epsom Golf Club increased its junior section from 26 to 108 1

🕔13:51, 18.Oct 2011

“Kids here are encouraged to take part in the club’s affairs. They get a handbook, bi-monthly newsletters and noticeboards which keep them informed. They’re not treated differently.”

Read Full Article
How interior clubhouse design can fit into a marketing strategy

How interior clubhouse design can fit into a marketing strategy 0

🕔13:33, 18.Oct 2011

There was a time when simply having a bar and dining facility at a golf club guaranteed that members and visitors would stay post round and use the facilities.

Read Full Article
Epping Golf Club uses glass instead of sand in its bunkers

Epping Golf Club uses glass instead of sand in its bunkers 1

🕔10:05, 18.Oct 2011

Neil Sjoberg, the manager of Epping Golf Club who built his club from scratch, has revealed that he uses glass for sand in his course’s bunkers, as part of his club’s environmental strategy.

Read Full Article
Epping Golf Club recruits 20 new members a year from its ‘Mighty Masters’

Epping Golf Club recruits 20 new members a year from its ‘Mighty Masters’ 0

🕔16:07, 17.Oct 2011

During the Easter holidays Epping Golf Club hosts its annual ‘Mighty Masters’ golf tournament.

Read Full Article
How free marketing boosted club’s membership

How free marketing boosted club’s membership 0

🕔16:00, 17.Oct 2011

In one 18 month period, the club increased its full male members by 75, lady members by 30 and social members by 67.

Read Full Article
Interview with Ernie Els: the changes to Wentworth’s West Course

Interview with Ernie Els: the changes to Wentworth’s West Course 0

🕔15:44, 17.Oct 2011

Described as the one ‘they all want to play’, the West Course, or Burma Road, is arguably Britain’s most famous golf course.

Read Full Article
Noel Mackenzie: The science behind course machinery

Noel Mackenzie: The science behind course machinery 0

🕔15:30, 17.Oct 2011

The business of managing fine turf for good putting green speeds is demanding and at nearly all courses these days it is a 365 day-a-year operation with around 2.5 hours of triple mowing undertaken per day as an average for 18 holes.

Read Full Article
Noel Mackenzie: How to spend less on drainage

Noel Mackenzie: How to spend less on drainage 0

🕔13:12, 17.Oct 2011

Drainage and irrigation both depend on a few similar phenomena such as gravity, hydraulic laws, the behaviour of water molecules and so on.

Read Full Article

Join Our Mailing List


Read the latest issues

Advertise With Us

For editorial enquiries in the magazine or online, contact:

Alistair.Dunsmuir@hdidmedia.com


For advertising enquiries in the magazine or online, contact:

georgina.hirst@hdidmedia.com