Covid has also led to a a golf boom in Australia 0
New figures on golf participation in Australia have shown a parallel with the UK – in which the pandemic has resulted in unprecedented growth.
New figures on golf participation in Australia have shown a parallel with the UK – in which the pandemic has resulted in unprecedented growth.
With many golf clubs in Scotland still struggling due to a lack of overseas visitors, a ‘Golf Tourism and Visitor Strategy’ is being developed to shape the next nine years of golf tourism.
The second e-Open tournament gets underway in mid-August.
To recognise just some of the work carried out during the pandemic, England Golf has rewarded clubs, counties and individuals for their achievements in growing the game.
Saudi Arabia’s golf association, Golf Saudi, has been teaching British Muslim women to play the game at a golf course in England.
Figures in the Scottish golf industry are calling for tourism support as an initiative has launched in a bid to get more people from around the world to visit some historic clubs that have missed out on tourism due to the pandemic.
The surge in participation in golf has, paradoxically, led to some golf clubs in Edinburgh fearing they may close down, due to the tee time booking changes it has led to.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group For Golf (APPGG) has confirmed that current Covid guidance for golf clubs in England will remain until July 19.
Hitachi Capital Consumer Finance, one of the UK’s leading retail point of sale providers, has announced profits of £60.2m and a growth in market share, illustrating resilience despite volatility in the lending landscape in the last year.
A Scottish golf club that controversially closed down just before the surge in golf participation that has been driven by the pandemic started, and has since become run-down, is set to reopen.
A golf course that users feared had permanently shut because it remained closed from March 2020 to May 2021, has finally reopened.
In his first interview since his car accident, Tiger Woods has said his primary focus is regaining strength in his injured right leg.
New research from The R&A has found that the number of people in Great Britain who have played golf on a full-length course in the last year has surged to 5.2 million.
Royal Dornoch Golf Club is offering free rounds on both its courses to NHS and care staff golfers for the remainder of May and all of June.
There are many immigration choices available to golfers to compete professionally in any golf tournament in the USA.
Golf courses in the Republic of Ireland reopened this week – after being shut for 209 days out of the last just over 13 months.
A teaching professional at a golf club in Texas is trying to raise thousands of dollars for a Scottish golf club which had its clubhouse destroyed by a fire earlier this year.
A leisure group that runs a municipal golf course in Scotland has capped the number of members the club has due to unprecedented demand in recent weeks.
The host of the 2014 Ryder Cup, Gleneagles, has become the latest major golf resort to post a loss for the last financial year due to coronavirus.
At least three more golf venues have announced forthcoming major projects in a sign of the strength of the UK golf industry in 2021.
An Irish golf club that is usually popular with overseas visitors has said its operating loss for 2020 was more than a quarter of a million pounds.
Golf clubs should prepare for the return of their bars and restaurants by evaluating their staff costs in these departments, argues food and beverage consultant Steven Brown.
There is a media narrative that golf courses are bad for the environment. However, research is finding that that not only is not true, but golf courses now play a pivotal role in how green a local area is.
The demand for ‘twilight golf’ in April has soared according to a report in The Telegraph.
The manager of a golf club in Kent said about 100 members played on March 29, as it reopened following nearly three months of closure.
A member of staff at a golf club in Oxford tested positive for Covid-19 just 24 hours before the course reopened following the coronavirus lockdown.
A number of English golf clubs have detailed how excited they are about the return of golf next week, following an absence that’s lasted nearly three months.