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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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Surveying your members
Understanding your members’ needs is essential to retaining them, and the best way of doing this is by surveying them. One proponent of this method is Fairway Credit.
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‘Poison’ sprayed on golf club’s greens causes up to £250k of damage
The course operations manager of an Australian golf club has said a vandal has poured ‘poison’ on five of his greens, causing potentially more than £250,000 of damage.
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Construction of R&A’s community golf facility to begin
The R&A has secured approval to create a world-leading ‘community golf facility’ in Glasgow.
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Venue is allowed to use dumped chalk for improvements
A footgolf venue that replaced a golf course in 2017 has been told it can create boundary walls around its car park with chalk that had been dumped there by a rogue builder.
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‘There are more victims of the ‘Rolex Rippers”
Two of the victims of the ‘Rolex Rippers’ have spoken about the tactics the women used in order to rob them, including shouting ‘sex’ as they grabbed one victim, and have criticised the police, stating there are more than 14 victims.
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Four golf courses set to have housing built on them
Four English golf courses look set to have, between them, well over 1,000 homes built on their land after four separate planning decisions were made within a few days of each other.
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This is the last UK golf course that still hasn’t reopened
A popular and historic short hole golf club in Edinburgh has still not reopened following the first Covid lockdown in 2020, despite the boom in participation of golf.
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Game-changing versatility with Toro’s sidewinder technology
For the ultimate versatility, Toro’s Sidewinder technology seen in the Reelmaster 3100-D and Groundsmaster 3500-D is game-changing.
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‘This safeguards the club’s future’
Sustainability roundup: A golf club is ensuring the majority of its land is natural habitat, others have eliminated single-use plastic bottles and a venue is building a solar farm.
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English golfers and their sponsors
Sponsors play a crucial role in pumping revenue into the sport. They financially back events in the UK and around the globe, but many players also have their own deals in place.
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Members save golf club by buying it
An Irish golf club that feared closing down has been purchased by its members following an online auction.
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UK golf club to build a toboggan run on its grounds
A Nottinghamshire golf club has been granted permission to build a 120-metre toboggan run on its grounds.
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Thieves posing as charity workers are targeting golf club members in southern England
Two ‘highly professional’ female thieves have been repeatedly stealing expensive watches from men in golf club car parks in the last year, according to the police.
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Second golf club in a week blocks its entrance due to travellers
A second English golf club has blockaded its entrance in the space of just one week, as travellers set up an encampment by its land.
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Wilton Carpets launches the ‘Tartan Collection’
Wilton Carpets’ newly launched Tartan Collection is steeped in tradition and heritage craftsmanship, but simultaneously at the vanguard of interior design trends and very much part of the fabric of prestigious leisure and hospitality venues.