Foxhills’ director of golf Sean Graham on managing 6,000 members and £2m course upgrades

The UK’s most westerly golf course, Barra Golf Club, on the west coast of the Isle of Barra, in the western isles of Scotland, has turned to the internet in an attempt to raise about £30,000 for a much-needed clubhouse.

A significant study on golf green speeds has found that making the surface faster actually increases the length of time for golfers to play a round on that course.

Hamish Grey, who has led Scottish Golf in one form or another since 1998, is to leave the organisation, its new board has announced.

Two of Britain’s biggest media outlets have both reported on golf’s participation problems in the last few days, as four clubs have now closed this month.

Members of Wentworth Club have formed an action group to block plans to reduce the number of members and massively increase the rates they pay, and have threatened legal action against their own club’s owner.

The number of rounds of golf played in the UK in the final quarter of 2015 was down significantly on 2014’s levels, as two golf clubs have already closed this month alone.

Norwood Park Golf Centre in Nottinghamshire has become the latest golf club to use giant hole cups to attract juniors and beginners to the game.

The new chair of Scottish Golf has said she will use her high-level business experience to try and get more women to play golf.

Two more historic golf clubs have decided to end their men-only membership policies and allow women to become members for the first time.

More than 150 UK golf clubs offer footgolf, the new sport that combines football and golf, even though it only came to the UK less than three years ago.

The chair of the Association of Golf Course Owners (AGCO), Vivien Saunders, has submitted a report to the senior policy advisor on VAT at the Treasury that calls for the non-profit status of private members’ clubs to be challenged.

The Council of National Golf Unions (CONGU) has announced that its revised handicapping system has been updated and the new changes will come in on January 1, 2016.

Greg Norman calls for relaxed dress codes, a 12-hole format of golf and even music in buggies to address the large drop in participation over the last few years.