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Meet the director of golf:Â Dean Montgomery
Having worked at great golf clubs around the world, including Royal Liverpool, Bearwood Lakes and Yas Links, Dean Montgomery has taken on a new role as director of golf at Golf at The Hawthorn, just as it is about to open a luxury hotel.
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Company profile: Bernhard and Company
A Danish golf club that invested in two grinders in 2017 has seen turf definition and the playing surface improve, and the club’s mechanic is now even helping other clubs in the area with their machinery maintenance as a result.
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Woodhall Spa safeguards home of English Golf with Toro
It’s a relationship over two decades strong, therefore it’s no surprise that when it came to renewing its machinery fleet as it concluded what is widely recognised as the biggest in-house golf renovation project in the UK, that Woodhall Spa GC chose Toro again.
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Golf club offers all its beds to the NHS; Contingency plans for the Open; The war on COVID-19 update
An English golf and country club has offered all 30 of its bedrooms to the NHS until the coronavirus pandemic subsides.
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Aftermarket Dealer Awards winners announced
Reesink Turfcare recognised its dealers at its annual Aftermarket Dealer Awards ceremony, which was held in February.
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Top 8 health benefits of golf for teens
Golf is one of the best-received sports nowadays. It’s a low-injury activity often referred to as a gentleman’s game or sport of leisure. The more popular it became, the more researchers strived to find out the many kinds of benefits that golf offers.
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‘Another nail in the coffin’
Chris Gray, manager of Cottingham Parks Golf & Leisure in Yorkshire, argues that the proposal that giving nomadic golfers an official handicap by attaching them to a local club will lead to clubs closing.
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Golf club member dies; A club is offering free golf; Council-run clubs are closing: Coronavirus update
A Scottish golf club has announced that one of its members has died after contracting COVID-19.
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You can still play golf provided you ‘keep a distance’
The UK’s chief scientific adviser has responded to a health select committee question about playing golf during the coronavirus crisis by effectively saying it is an activity that is allowable.
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Club profile: Kenilworth Golf Club
Since it opened in the 19th century, the Warwickshire venue has always been viewed as a forward-thinking one. And that continues right up until today via a modern clubhouse.
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Host of European Senior Tour events to close this autumn
A Leicestershire golf course which has hosted tournaments for the European Senior Tour is to close down this autumn – the decision is not thought to have anything to do with the coronavirus pandemic.
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The travelling lady golfer: Morocco
From playing on a course dotted with artwork and statues to a venue set within the walls of a palace, there is nothing quite like golf in Morocco, as Sarah Forrest details.
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This is Dumbarnie Links
Perhaps the most exciting golf development of 2020 will be a stunning new links course near St Andrews, which will open in May. Here, its course manager talks about the work that has gone into creating the venue
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Edinburgh golf club could sell three of its holes due to financial woes
A James Braid-designed golf course in Edinburgh could see three of its holes turned into a luxury retirement complex to cover the financial problems it has been suffering.
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Canterbury and Close House golf clubs launch new membership categories
Two golf clubs more than 300 miles apart in England have both launched new membership categories to appeal to golfers.
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Here’s Royal Liverpool’s spectacular course changes
Royal Liverpool, which has hosted the Open twice in the last 15 years, is nearing completion of the first phase of major course changes designed to retain it as a regular host of the Open Championship.