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Foxhills’ director of golf Sean Graham on managing 6,000 members and £2m course upgrades
Foxhills’ director of golf Sean Graham discusses the club’s landmark 50th anniversary, the £2 million renovation of the Longcross Course and how a relentless focus on family-centric investment has built a thriving community of nearly 6,000 members in Surrey.
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Royal Portrush to host the Open in 2025
Royal Portrush, which hosted the Open in 2019, is to do so again in 2025, providing another outstanding showcase for golf in Northern Ireland.
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Wales becomes the latest country to run a handicaps for non-members scheme
Wales Golf has said it will introduce an official handicap scheme for people who are not members of golf clubs for the first time ever.
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Golf club receives £15.95 million offer to buy its lease
A private members’ golf club near London has received an offer from its local council of just under £16 million to relinquish the lease for its land.
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Club sells two houses for over a million pounds each
A golf club that is building five coastal homes that will have an asking price of more than a million pounds each has sold two before work has even started.
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Opportunity knocks. Golf needs to answer
Golf has seen an unprecedented boom in the last 18 months but new data from BRS Golf and GolfNow shows the first sign of a slowdown. But there is good news within this.
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Thieves targeted golf clubs during first lockdown
A crown court has heard that a gang targeted and ram raided three golf clubs in April last year as the whole of Britain was under a coronavirus lockdown, causing extensive losses.
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Robert Bayliss retires after 43 years
Robert Bayliss has retired as the head greenkeeper of Weymouth Golf Club in Dorset after an incredible 43 years serving the James Braid-designed parkland course.
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Golf club applies to stay open until 2.30am every night
A golf club in Nottinghamshire has said it wants to be more inclusive to its entire local community – and that’s why it is applying for a licence to stay open until 2.30am every night.
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Ian Woosnam reportedly interested in another golf club
Former world number one golfer Ian Woosnam has announced his intention to save a second 18-hole golf club.
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Calls for golf to be included in the Paralympics
There are growing calls for golf to be included as a sport in the 2024 Paralympic Games.
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Golf club offers vaccinated youngsters membership opportunity
An Oxfordshire golf club has said it will give away one free membership to a golfer aged 18 to 29 if they have been double vaccinated.
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Here’s three UK golf industry trends from August
From ‘thinking outside the box’ when it comes to introducing golf to youngsters to the end of the pandemic participation boom, we look at the top golf industry trends from August 2021.
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The Guardian promotes call for London’s golf courses to be ‘redeveloped’
The Guardian newspaper has promoted a call by an architect for many of the 94 golf courses in Greater London to be redeveloped.
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Meet the PGA professional: Ian Mowbray
The PGA club professional at Liphook Golf Club talks about the extreme changes to his role in the last 18 months and how he helps the club introduce the game to more people.
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Welsh golf clubs invited to apply for women’s golf fund
Welsh golf clubs have been invited to apply for grants of up to £5,000 to get more women and girls playing golf in the next four years.