Reciprocal deal golf club shortlisted for award 0
A new Middle Eastern golf club that markets itself via reciprocal deals with other courses around the world has been shortlisted for an award.
A new Middle Eastern golf club that markets itself via reciprocal deals with other courses around the world has been shortlisted for an award.
A Lincolnshire golf course could be converted into housing after the company that owns the location’s lease has decided it does not fit into its business plan.
The captain of the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA), Eddie Bullock, has said that golf clubs need to offer more educational offerings to their managers in order for the club to survive in current, difficult market conditions.
We cannot afford to pull up the drawbridge and hope the ‘enemy’ will withdraw.
Typically I am finding a wide range of profitability levels, mainly in bar sales.
Osborne Golf Club in the Isle of Wight has completed a £150,000 clubhouse refurbishment programme.
The whole project at Dubai Sports City [the world’s first purpose-built sports city] is incredibly exciting – I mean, I think it’s fair to say there is nothing else like it in the world.
Designing a golf course, or redesigning an existing one in a renovation or improvement exercise, is a fascinating task.
Many clubs do not have a full membership and the many 2-for-1 schemes for casual golfers is blamed as a contributory factor. On the other hand most clubs need income from visitors.
For the vast majority of clubs in the UK, membership renewal falls between November and April.
All proprietary golf clubs in the UK have been urged to make a Capital Allowance Tax claim before next year’s April Budget, when the tax allowance is ended after 62 years.
An energy expert has said that golf clubs are overcharged by about £5 million per year by their energy suppliers and that 70 per cent of golf clubs will recover about £2,000 each, if they carry out an audit.
Clubs are increasingly looking for new members to help keep their finances fit, but, short of erecting signboards at the roadside blazing forth the fact, how can they tip the wink to their local catchment?
A golfer will no longer be penalised if his or her ball is moved by a gust of wind after it has been addressed.
More than 200 golf clubs around Europe have signed up for the new Golf 4 Heroes project.
How do you work with owners to achieve the optimum golf course condition whilst catering to their desires?
John Scott, former serving secretary for several years has recently returned from military service, as a Royal Marine, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Two major golf clubs, one in China and one in Cyprus, have formed a reciprocal partnership to attract more members to both.
The course manager of Bearwood Lakes Golf Club has timed his selective herbicide treatments, targeting ryegrass and Yorkshire fog, to coincide with the natural fescues’ autumn senescence.
Educational podcasts for greenkeepers to listen to as they cut the grass has been launched by a fellow greenkeeper.
The lure of lavish golfing retreats in far-flung corners of the globe is just too irresistible for many enthusiasts, it seems.
The Club Company currently operates 10 golf clubs in England and all have been developed into the country club format that is a hallmark of the group.
In an age when golf club memberships are falling and the average age of golfers across the country is still in the 50s, the state of the game is often said by ‘experts’ to be parlous.
When it comes to irrigation, what do we need to understand about what goes on in that 2-4mm of turf on our greens?
Proposals for a £200k golf development in Perthshire have been approved by local councillors who are keen on attracting tourists to the area.
The Monte Rei Golf Club on the Algarve opened in 2007 and is already one of Iberia’s premier golf resorts.