Golf Trends 2013 4
It’s been a tough few years for golf clubs, and it’s been even worse for suppliers to golf clubs, as the venues have been reluctant to spend.
It’s been a tough few years for golf clubs, and it’s been even worse for suppliers to golf clubs, as the venues have been reluctant to spend.
Two of the greatest golf clubs in Australia are to merge with each other.
Hertfordshire golf club Brocket Hall has agreed a corporate partnership with Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur.
Crown Golf is trialing pace of play software to root out slow golfers and a flexible membership programme to attract golfers who do not want to pay for unlimited access to a course.
What we learnt about golf club management in October.
Three more golf clubs have announced plans to build holiday lodges on their courses.
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Six giant wind turbines are to be built overlooking the ‘home of golf’ at St Andrews, as several golf clubs are facing the issue of having turbines erected nearby.
A Kent golf club has introduced an innovative marketing hook – golfers receive a free round if it is their birthday.
Three south west golf clubs have created a unique golf club partnership in which members of one venue receive full membership of the other two for free.
Several clubs introduced flexible membership schemes this year – and they have brought in large numbers of new members seemingly everywhere.
Bernard Gallacher, who nearly died at a golf club in August, is to lead a campaign that will urge golf clubs to purchase defibrillators
Golf clubs that are installing ‘adventure golf’ courses aimed at children are seeing huge direct and indirect financial benefits.
The legal advisor to the NGCAA has said that litigation over social media has reached such an extent that it has become essential that golf clubs implement a social media policy.
The head greenkeeper of a leading golf club has said clubs will continue to struggle as long as their committees fail to employ younger staff as managers.
AGCO is set to take legal proceedings against the UK government over the issue of VAT in golf, following an email from HMRC that has been overturned.
An exclusive golf club with £200,000 joining fees aimed at super-rich foreigners is set to open at St Andrews in less than three years’ time. It will be the only private members’ golf club at the ‘home of golf’.
A golf partnership between three clubs has generated nearly half a million pounds in spending in just the last two years – even though it only operates in three off-season months every year.
A new funding scheme has been launched for Scottish golf clubs that don’t have qualified professionals but want to teach the game to local youngsters.
Wales is set to become the most accessible country in the world for hard of hearing and deaf golfers within the next two years.
A Yorkshire and Derbyshire club operator has introduced affordable golf coaching for women, for customers across the four venues it owns.
The PGA of America has launched an innovative programme that will teach golf specifically to employees of companies, in a bid to boost participation in the game and help American businesses.
An historic golf club is closed down and another fears for its future as golf clubs in Scotland continue to suffer amid the tough financial climate.
A unique golf course designed specifically for people with disabilities has opened in Middlesbrough.
A survey of nearly 500 UK golf clubs has found that just six percent reveal their dress code rules to golfers when they book their rounds.
What we learnt about golf club management this month.
Golf clubs continue to be placed up for sale as the market shows signs of recovery.