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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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Winter course work enhanced St Enodoc Golf Club
A rolling programme of work at St Enodoc over the winter has enhanced the playability of the championship links as well as the appearance of one of England’s most highly-regarded courses.
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GDPR: Golf clubs probably don’t need to delete old website images
A golf course photographer has been told that golf clubs probably do not need to delete images featuring people from their websites by May 25, provided they gave verbal consent.
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‘Moaning members barred from golf club’ story goes viral
A story about five septuagenarian golfers who have been thrown out of their golf club for complaining about its modernisation has gone viral.
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PGA CEO Robert Maxfield to write for The Golf Business
One of the most powerful people in golf in Europe, the chief executive of the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA), Robert Maxfield, is to provide regular editorial contributions to The Golf Business.
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Half of all couples would marry at a golf course
A survey of wedding preferences conducted on 3,928 newlyweds has found that 49 per cent would have been happy to have the ceremony at a golf club in summer.
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Why these two golf clubs saw huge growth in 2017
They might be about 400 miles apart on opposing ends of England, but The Point at Polzeath and Carus Green GC share at least one thing in common: Both had an extraordinary 2017.
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BGIA donates £10,000 to Golf Foundation charity
National golf charity the Golf Foundation has thanked the British Golf Industry Association (BGIA) for raising £10,000, which will help more young people to enjoy the benefits of golf in the years ahead.
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Here’s 3 major issues we discussed in April 2018
From changing driving distances to a participation rate slump, The Golf Business editor Alistair Dunsmuir explores three issues that have emerged from some of our stories this month.
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Greenkeeper Bill Mitchell retires – after 58 years at the same golf club
A 58-year career is not in itself remarkable, what is remarkable, as in the case of Bill Mitchell, is a 58-year career at the same club.
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Yorkshire golf club rejects four-figure approach by fracking firm
A Yorkshire golf club has turned down a request by a fracking firm to carry out seismic testing on its land.
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Meet the head greenkeeper: Burford’s Stuart Richens
Burford GC in Oxfordshire still has a waiting list and charges a joining fee. We speak to Stuart Richens, the head greenkeeper, to find out what his team has done to the course
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David Leadbetter to open European headquarters in July
One of the world’s most famous golf coaches, David Leadbetter, will open the ‘Leadbetter Golf Academy European Headquarters’in Buckinghamshire next month.
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Two Kent golf clubs close down
Two golf clubs in Kent have closed down in the space of a few days of each other – and just a few weeks after another venue in the county closed.
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Reintroducing the joining fee at Canterbury Golf Club
About four years ago Canterbury Golf Club in Kent bought the land on which the course resides. It then began a programme of improvements that have been so successful that the club has closed its membership
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New data on holiday preferences is opportunity for Scottish golf clubs
A poll of 10,000 people on their holiday preferences could prove to be valuable to Scottish golf clubs.