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Tom Phillips begins work as the new CEO of the Ladies European Tour (LET)
Tom Phillips has officially begun his new role as CEO of the Ladies European Tour (LET), marking the beginning of an exciting new era for the tour and for women’s professional golf globally.Â
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EGU worried that Yorkshire will stop merger
The English Golf Union (EGU) is concerned that the Yorkshire Union of Golf Clubs will block its attempts to merge with the English Women’s Golf Association (EWGA) next month.
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Noel Mackenzie: How technology – and Ronan Rafferty – can help greenkeepers
Planning for summer is a means by which the goals for the course are reached.
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Club given £10k to teach golf to disabled kids
Wharton Park Golf and Country Club in Worcestershire has been awarded £10,000 from the National Lottery to promote golf to juniors – particularly disabled children.
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How to make your membership categories more attractive
The popularity of golf is on the increase and a whole new generation of golfers, including women and children, are queuing up to tee off.
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Tips for attracting women to join your golf club
Europe’s largest ever survey of sport and active recreation rates golf the seventh most popular sport in England.
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Noel Mackenzie: The growing season is lasting longer – costing your club more money
The current, longer, growing season has begun to have some very important implications in relation to machinery, budgeting and purchasing.
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Steven Brown: How the backfitting of your bar is your greatest drinks’ marketing asset
Merchandising is the art of silent selling, it is the ability to display your most profitable products to their best advantage and it is about making money.
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Steven Brown: How to make your food and beverage operation stand out
It really doesn’t matter that you know how to read a profit and loss account, a balance sheet and a break-even point if you haven’t generated any profitable income in the first place.
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Three golf clubs praised for their environmental work
Hankley Common, Beaconsfield and Royal St George’s golf clubs have been praised for their quality of ecological stewardship.
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Cowglen GC receives £11k following water audit
Cowglen Golf Club in Scotland has received £11,000 after it examined its water costs and usage in detail to ensure best value.
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Noel Mackenzie: Why club captains should not dictate changes to a golf course
The landscape of a golf course should be unique; every course has its own character and charm.
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Club Profile: Broughton Heath – a thriving par three golf course
Broughton Heath, in the Derbyshire countryside not far from Dovedale in the tiny village of Church Broughton, is an 18-hole golf course with 18 par three holes.
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Stuart Phipps: How to convert ‘nomads’ into golf club members
It is no use existing clubs fighting each other for members: unattached golfers – ‘nomads’ – have to be converted into members – and that means clubs must provide what they want.
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The key to successful marketing is your club’s database
As winter draws closer, the number of visiting parties decrease and the frequency of member visits to the course start to decline, it is a time of year when thoughts should be turning to winter work.
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Noel Mackenzie: Prepare the course now for winter, so it can be prepared for next summer
As the sun gets lower in the sky and daylight hours shorten so the plants on the golf green receive less light and heat reducing the ability of the grass to maintain condition under low cutting heights.