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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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Tributes for golf club owner who has died aged 59
A number of people have paid tribute to Alan Strange, the co-owner and professional at The Brow Golf Club in Shropshire, who has sadly died suddenly, aged 59.
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Meet the manager: Adam Walsh
The general manager of Farleigh GC in Surrey talks about how he has become the youngest of just 51 club managers in Europe to achieve ‘Certified Club Manager’ status.
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More than £20k awarded to small golf clubs
More than £20k has been awarded to ‘small golf clubs’, with another £40,000 set to be provided, to help them purchase player input score screens ahead of next year’s introduction of the World Handicap System. Â
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Video of clubhouse fight goes viral
A video of a violent altercation in a golf club, which was posted on social media on Monday, has gone viral.
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Meet the greenkeepers who are also their golf clubs’ managers
Looe Golf Club in Cornwall and Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumbria are both managed by their greenkeepers.Â
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Guide launched to help clubs attract youngsters to golf
A new guide to help golf clubs attract young people into the sport has been produced by England Golf.
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Royal Norwich GC set to complete relocation
How Toro machinery is ensuring the club’s two new courses will thrive.
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Media slammed for criticising golf consultants
The mainstream media has come under fire from a golf industry group after it mocked a council for employing consultants with golf expertise.
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The golf club that has five times as many visitors as there are local residents
Last year Brora Golf Club in the Highlands saw its membership grow across all categories and it now employs nearly two per cent of the local village’s population.
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Meet the golf operations manager: Nigel Sweet
Nigel talks about how Leeds Golf Centre has a reputation for being inclusive, the facility’s major plans for growth and what it’s like being a golf club manager while competing to play on the European Senior Tour.
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This man had already hit two holes-in-one by the seventh hole
An amateur golfer has defied odds of 67 million to one to hit two holes-in-one in the same round.
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Work starts on redevelopment of HS2 golf course
A major redevelopment of a golf course that is set to have the HS2 rail line constructed through it has begun.
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How liable is a golf club if there’s a data breach?
The National Golf Clubs Advisory Association (NGCAA) looks at what happened when an employer was found ‘vicariously liable’ – even though not at fault – for a data breach by a rogue employee.
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Brian Evans: An obituary
The former secretary / manager of Lydd Golf Club in Kent, Brian Evans, has passed away aged 84.
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Here’s the top three things I learnt about the golf industry in February
The Golf Business editor Alistair Dunsmuir discusses the two greatest things in the world – dogs and beer – and why they’ve both played a role in the industry in the last month.