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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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Membership of Scottish golf clubs jumps above 200,000
Scotland has seen an even bigger increase in the number of members of golf clubs in 2021 than it did in 2020, meaning that the country now has the highest number of golf club members in seven years.
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Global golf participation ‘surpasses previous highest mark’
New figures from The R&A and SMS show 66.6 million people around the world are golfers – a figure that is significantly up on the previous highest number of 61.6 million in 2012.
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Historic Welsh golf club saved for the second time in six months
One of the oldest golf clubs in Wales has been saved from closure for the second time in six months following two distinct threats, and will now close for just 12 months and return as a ‘carbon neutral golf club’.
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Greenkeeper saves golfer’s life
A greenkeeper has been told he probably saved the life of a golfer who suffered a heart attack on the course.
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Meet the golf club manager: Maureen Harman
The club manager of Hurtmore GC in Surrey talks about how the club has changed during the pandemic, her background of working in PR and increasing the women’s section at the club.
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New golf club in London to be renamed
A new 18-hole golf course in north London is to be renamed following the deaths of golf course architect Pete Dye in 2020, and his son, Perry, in 2021.
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Toro selected as partner of new R&A facility
The R&A has named The Toro Company as a founding partner and official golf course maintenance partner for its planned community golf facility at Lethamhill in Glasgow.
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Hitachi Capital set to help even more clubs drive membership in 2022
Hitachi has a revolutionary finance product for clubs that want to attract new members and retain existing ones.
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Three more golf clubs set to have housing built on them
Another three golf clubs have revealed that they are set to have housing built on them.
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Quad bike riders cause £25k of damage on Yorkshire golf course
A Yorkshire golf club has said that vandals have driven over the course on quad bikes, causing more than £25,000 of damage.
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150-year-old golf club faces ‘permanent closure’
A historic golf club in Scotland has set up a GoFundMe page in order to save it from permanently closing down.
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Last men-only golf club in Ireland to admit women
The last golf club in Ireland to have never had a female member has said it will end what was its effectively men-only membership policy and will now welcome ‘all genders’.
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Landlord loses golf club legal case against charity
The landlord of a golf club has failed in its bid to contest a charity’s decision to terminate its lease during the pandemic, less than a year after acquiring it.
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“We’ve never had damage to the extent of this”
Vandals have driven onto the course of the number one rated golf venue in Herefordshire and damaged the surface – and they have since approached a greenkeeper to admit to the crime.
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Review of the British Open Speedgolf Championships
Competitors played two 18-hole rounds in two days, and some players completed both rounds in under 40 minutes, shooting close to par both times.