Golf Club Manager of the Year finalist Tracy Rawlinson, Warrington Golf Club

Golf Club Manager of the Year finalist Tracy Rawlinson, Warrington Golf Club 3

🕔12:33, 26.Oct 2015

Profile of Golf Club Manager of the Year finalist Tracy Rawlinson, Warrington Golf Club.

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Wentworth to charge £125,000 joining fee

Wentworth to charge £125,000 joining fee 3

🕔15:04, 21.Oct 2015

Wentworth Club in Surrey is to raise its joining fee from £15,000 to £125,000 amid reports that it wants to get rid of its high net worth members because they are not rich enough.

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Carin Koch: Dress codes put women off golf

Carin Koch: Dress codes put women off golf 11

🕔15:57, 6.Oct 2015

European Solheim Cup captain Carin Koch has said that several golf clubs are missing out on thousands of female customers by having restrictive dress codes.

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These clubs are abandoning ladies’ tees and here’s why

These clubs are abandoning ladies’ tees and here’s why 5

🕔14:12, 1.Oct 2015

More than 30 UK golf clubs have abandoned ladies’ tees in an effort to encourage improving golfers, retain ageing players and promote social golf.

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These are the golf clubs that have been put up for sale in the last few months

These are the golf clubs that have been put up for sale in the last few months 7

🕔11:46, 10.Sep 2015

A raft of golf clubs have been put up for sale in the last few months, carrying on from 2014, in which more UK golf clubs were put on the market than in any other year in history.

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BBC TV presenter Naga Munchetty: Golf is an amazing game for women

BBC TV presenter Naga Munchetty: Golf is an amazing game for women 2

🕔16:15, 8.Sep 2015

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty has said that finding golf has changed her life and that the sport is fantastic for women.

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Lee Westwood: Golf needs larger holes, a two-hour format and an image overhaul

Lee Westwood: Golf needs larger holes, a two-hour format and an image overhaul 5

🕔11:49, 6.Aug 2015

Leading golfer Lee Westwood has said that the game of golf needs an urgent image revamp amid worrying data about participation trends.

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Participation in golf: The shocking facts over the last seven years

Participation in golf: The shocking facts over the last seven years 4

🕔14:57, 28.Jul 2015

Golf in England has lost more than 200,000 weekly, and well over 400,000 monthly, players in just the last seven years, according to new data.

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‘Golf club committees are killing golf clubs’

‘Golf club committees are killing golf clubs’ 22

🕔15:25, 21.Jul 2015

A pioneering student who has been given a four-figure business grant to develop a product that could benefit golf clubs has said that their backward-looking committees are destroying their own venues.

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Ian Poulter praises Sky Sports over British Masters

Ian Poulter praises Sky Sports over British Masters 3

🕔15:20, 17.Jul 2015

Leading British golfer Ian Poulter has thanked Sky Sports for helping get the British Masters back on the European Tour schedule.

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US golf club has golfers ‘surfing’ fairways between shots

US golf club has golfers ‘surfing’ fairways between shots 4

🕔10:18, 29.Jun 2015

An American golf venue has introduced a radical new way to get golfers to quickly play the course and in a fun way – golfers can hire carts that allow them to surf fairways.

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Rory McIlroy has an innovative way to get kids into golf

Rory McIlroy has an innovative way to get kids into golf 3

🕔12:09, 25.Jun 2015

World number one golfer Rory McIlory has said that more children will play golf if the world’s best golfers have more athletic bodies.

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Golfer plays an amazing 18 different courses in one day for charity

Golfer plays an amazing 18 different courses in one day for charity 0

🕔14:06, 22.Jun 2015

The captain of Pleasington Golf Club in Blackburn has played an incredible 18 holes at 18 different golf courses – on the same day – for charity.

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Nairn loses £185k green fee VAT repayment case

Nairn loses £185k green fee VAT repayment case 4

🕔12:14, 4.Jun 2015

A private members’ golf club has lost a VAT repayment claim case about in which it called for the government to pay it back £185,000 in taxes.

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Debt-ridden club to lose its clubhouse

Debt-ridden club to lose its clubhouse 5

🕔13:53, 2.Jun 2015

A Yorkshire golf club that became mired in debt is to lose its clubhouse, which will be converted into a luxury property.

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Four historic golf clubs could merge into one due to loss of members

Four historic golf clubs could merge into one due to loss of members 3

🕔11:03, 28.May 2015

Four of the world’s most historic golf clubs, which are all located in the same Scottish town, could merge into one venue because all four have suffered significant drops in members in the last few years.

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Club dealing with media storm as greenkeeper is suspended for giving water to animal sanctuary

Club dealing with media storm as greenkeeper is suspended for giving water to animal sanctuary 3

🕔10:54, 21.May 2015

A golf club is dealing with a negative publicity storm after it suspended one of its greenkeepers, after he allowed a neighbouring animal sanctuary to take some of its irrigation water in an emergency.

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‘The worst is over for most golf clubs’

‘The worst is over for most golf clubs’ 15

🕔16:43, 19.May 2015

The director of an organisation that markets golf clubs to potential buyers has said that the worst of the financial problems that has beset the industry has come to an end.

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This golf club’s bunkers are made of recycled beer bottles

This golf club’s bunkers are made of recycled beer bottles 2

🕔10:59, 15.May 2015

The sand in the bunkers of Beauchief Golf Course in Sheffield is now made of recycled glass from beer bottles from the club’s bar.

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Giant holes ‘would save golf’ says master greenkeeper

Giant holes ‘would save golf’ says master greenkeeper 5

🕔10:16, 13.May 2015

One of the most respected golf course consultants in the world has become the latest high profile figure to state that increasing the size of hole cups in golf would be hugely beneficial to the game.

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Is your in-house monthly direct debit subscription scheme now exempt from the Consumer Credit Act?

Is your in-house monthly direct debit subscription scheme now exempt from the Consumer Credit Act? 5

🕔14:35, 24.Apr 2015

Does the recent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) change allowing some 0% instalment schemes to be unregulated mean your in-house monthly scheme is exempt from the Consumer Credit Act?

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Vivien Saunders: Why I’m standing against David Cameron

Vivien Saunders: Why I’m standing against David Cameron 8

🕔10:44, 20.Apr 2015

Golf club owner and tax campaigner Vivien Saunders has announced that she is standing for parliament at the forthcoming election – against prime minister David Cameron in his Oxfordshire seat of Witney.

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Shock as Brocket Hall enters administration

Shock as Brocket Hall enters administration 4

🕔11:45, 9.Apr 2015

One of England’s premier golf clubs, Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, has entered administration.

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Why Peter Alliss is wrong about gender equality

Why Peter Alliss is wrong about gender equality 6

🕔10:49, 7.Apr 2015

Peter Alliss has said that gender equality has led to thousands of women giving up golf. We look at the evidence – and find a very different conclusion.

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Only 25% of men want to play golf with women

Only 25% of men want to play golf with women 1

🕔11:54, 24.Mar 2015

A new survey has found that men play a huge role in tapping into the massive potential of women golfers – but they need to change their attitudes first.

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Should a golf club remove a picture of a former captain if he is a paedophile?

Should a golf club remove a picture of a former captain if he is a paedophile? 3

🕔14:15, 17.Mar 2015

It might not be a question every golf club committee has to debate, but it is one that is vexing a club in Lancashire after it emerged a former captain is a paedophile.

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Golf’s biggest sponsor: The game has to change

Golf’s biggest sponsor: The game has to change 4

🕔11:16, 16.Mar 2015

The head of sponsorship for HSBC, probably the biggest sponsor of golf in the world, has said that the game is at a crossroads and must now change.

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