Conor O’Leary is the hotel manager of Gleneagles. The resort has eight bars and restaurants, which are thriving businesses regardless of the golf courses. Here, he tells us some of the secrets to their success.
Mannings Heath Golf Club & Wine Estate in West Sussex has planted 38,000 vines and has become the first golf club in the UK to also be a winery.
Private members’ golf clubs could be in line for a VAT rebate worth hundreds of millions of pounds – in addition to the huge payouts hundreds received just a few months ago.
Last year a golf insurance specialist launched Linkscover to the UK market, and golf clubs are benefiting from improved cover and reduced premiums.
A Kent golf club has launched a competition to find ‘the south’s unluckiest golfer’ and will give him or her three months of free membership.
Arsonists have attacked a top Scottish golf club twice in the space of three days.
A major UK biodiversity partnership is calling on greenkeepers and golfers to share crucial biological data with it to help educate the world.
A new survey of golfers has found that over half believe the use of social media on golf courses is contributing towards slow play in the game.
Do you expect employees to answer emails outside of working hours? And who can vote at an AGM if your golf club is incorporated?
It’s not that unusual for a golfer to hit a hole-in-one on a golf course – but when the golfer is the club’s secretary and nobody had ever done this before, then it becomes a story.
A company that owns 19 holiday parks in the UK has entered the golf market by purchasing a leading golf club in Yorkshire.
The chief executive for Scottish Golf writes exclusively for The Golf Business on the opportunities for the industry in Scotland.
The 12th Viscount Cobham, Christopher Charles Lyttelton, has bought Hagley Golf and Country Club in the West Midlands, for a reported asking price of £2.25 million.
The GolfSixes tournament, which saw fireworks, music, a shot clock and top golfers competing over six holes of golf, has already had a positive effect on golf participation, according to a charity.
The organisation that runs amateur golf in England says that the growth of non 18-hole formats of golf has been a major trend in the last 12 months.
A survey on how changes to business rates will affect golf clubs has found that venues in south west and central England are seeing the largest rises.
Being able to offer a massage post 18 holes will not only improve the health and wellbeing of your members but also extend their time in your club.
The first three months of 2017 saw a nine per cent rise in the number of rounds of golf played compared with the previous year.
Police in Scotland have issued a warning to golf clubs to protect their greenkeepers’ sheds after at least two were targeted by criminals.
Currently going through tribunals is a case in which a proprietary golf club converted to a ‘not-for-profit’ venue, which would make it VAT exempt. Adrian Houstoun explains the legal situation behind this
April was all about health and golf. The Golf Business editor Alistair Dunsmuir reviews the top three trends of the month, including why alcohol is so good for the game
A major new golf competition is being launched that will see thousands of golf club members raise money for Prostate Cancer UK.
A Nottinghamshire golf club that has just undergone a £125,000 refurbishment is now marketing to families to visit the venue.
A new study has found that doing moderate exercise such as the walking involved in regular games of golf is the best way to slow down the brain’s ageing process if you’re over 50.
A golf club that entered administration towards the end of last year has had its future secured after a local businessman bought it and a local professional golfer took over the running of it.
A municipal golf venue that closed down in 2015 when the council stopped subsidising it is likely to reopen as a footgolf course later this year.
The former chairman of a Premier League football club has said he may build a hotel next to a golf club, which should benefit both parties.
