England Golf granted £8 million ‘to tackle inequalities’ 1
The national governing body for golf in England is to receive an investment of £7.9m of funding via Sport England over the next five years ‘to tackle inequalities in the game’.
The national governing body for golf in England is to receive an investment of £7.9m of funding via Sport England over the next five years ‘to tackle inequalities in the game’.
The Welsh government has granted golf clubs more than £100,000 to tackle climate change.
Nine Scottish golf clubs have seen their memberships rise by more than 100 percent in just the last year as new figures confirm the strength of the participation boom.
A spectator at a golf event who lost his case against a golfer, a golf club and The Golfing Union of Ireland after being hit on the head by a golf ball, has appealed the verdict.
Chiltern Forest Golf Club near Aylesbury has received a grant of £27,326 from the HS2’s Community & Environment Fund.
The saga of a Scottish golf course that closed during the first lockdown and has not yet reopened is set to go on for at least another year.
Two golf clubs that have been caught up in the middle of a budgeting crisis within Wirral Council are to have their funding removed on April 1.
New data from five national golf federations reveals that nine-hole golf has seen a surge in popularity in the last two years.
At least three planning applications to build housing on golf clubs have been rejected in the last few days.
A golf club in Northamptonshire has applied to build 77 homes in order to ‘remain viable’ after nearly two decades of membership decline.
A golf club that was told its lease would be terminated in 12 months in 2020 has revealed its future is now secure thanks to a surge in memberships.
A golf venue in Wolverhampton that specialises in teaching the game has launched a partnership with a golf academy in Uganda.
A 48-year-old golf club in Staffordshire has said it will close in May as the investment needed to secure its future had proved to be too great.
Members of a golf club in Dublin have been asked to vote on relocating to a new venue designed by Paul McGinley so that their course can be converted into a large estate featuring 5,000 homes.
Several golf clubs in Ireland are to receive significant funding for improvements as part of a £5.9 million government support package for the development of sports and physical recreation facilities.
Retailer American Golf has taken over the operation of a golf club in London – its sixth leisure venue.
A golf and country club owned by Alfie Best is undergoing major clubhouse enhancements.
An Irish golf club has revealed that, contrary to recent reports that an Irish club became the first to appoint a female captain this year, it did so last year.
Topgolf Entertainment Group has said it is targeting a late 2022 opening for its new state-of-the-art venue in Glasgow.
Figures for rounds of golf played in the UK in the whole of 2021 show a significant increase even on 2020, when the pandemic boom started and saw its biggest growth.
At least two more golf clubs have reported vandalism to their courses in recent days.
A municipal golf course in Staffordshire could be closed down because not enough people use it – despite the participation surge in the last two years.
A survey of UK golf clubs has found that four in five members’ clubs and nine in ten proprietary venues reported growth in 2021.
Suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) has announced that it will be attending turf management events throughout 2022.
North Somerset Council has stated that a 27-hole golf and country club could be converted into a housing estate under its plans to build more homes.
The police have issued statements surrounding two English golf clubs after reports of vandalism in recent days.
Greenkeepers at Golf House Club, Elie in Scotland have found a 95-year-old packet of cigarettes in a bottle, which contained a message written by greenkeepers in the 1920s, hidden on the course.