Alistair Dunsmuir
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Craigie Hill Golf Club in Scotland has submitted a planning application to reduce its holes from 18 to nine, build a new ‘Sports and Community Hub’ and create a residential development.
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A major new 18-hole golf course will open for two months of preview play in Scotland in 2025, before opening officially in 2026.
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Balmoral Golf Club in Northern Ireland is asking its members to lend it £1,000 each to stave off potential administration.
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A golf club in Scotland has received a grant of £290,000 – 60 percent of the cost of the project – to rebuild a new clubhouse featuring solar panels and energy-efficient lighting.
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A Nottinghamshire golf club that has been in the same family since it was founded 101 years ago has been sold to a developer that has said the golf venue will be maintained.
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A historic golf club in Oxfordshire has been earmarked to close down next year so that houses can be built on the land.
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The autumn budget has added to pressures that ‘could tip the scales for many golf clubs’ in the UK, an industry expert has claimed.
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From some clubs struggling to survive to others investing in new clubhouses, the effects of a participation boost and inflation in the last few years has been felt very differently across the industry.
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Royal Dornoch Golf Club has acquired 50 acres of adjacent rolling farmland for a six-figure sum and will use it to develop its Struie Course.
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The R&A has published a guide outlining the best ways to use restricted areas of land for golf course development.
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Royal Ascot Golf Club in Berkshire has installed 124 silicon panels and planted 2,500 trees across its 18-hole course, which sits on 150 acres of wooded crown land in Windsor Great Park.
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People living near the oldest nine-hole links course in England have attended a meeting to see what they can do to prevent the course being lost to the elements.
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A new report has found that 117 golf clubs in England, about six percent of the total number, are at high risk of serious flooding.
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St Andrews Links Trust, Prestwick Golf Club and Kirkby Valley Golf Course have become the latest venues to announce major clubhouse projects in the last few days.
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Hendon Golf Club, which is in an area of London that has a large Jewish population, has been the victim of shocking antisemitic vandalism.
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Two historic and prestigious golf clubs in Scotland have agreed to significant financial changes in order to safeguard their futures.
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BGL, which runs 10 golf venues in the UK, has appointed the managing director of Warner Hotels, Simon Thompson, as its new chief executive officer, replacing Colin Mayes.
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The biggest golf club operator in the UK could be up for sale before the end of this year.
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More golf clubs, particularly in Scotland, could close down after three fell in the same week last month, an industry leader has warned.
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Bolton Council has granted planning permission for Bolton Old Links Golf Club to demolish its 19th century clubhouse.
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As we review the last month in the UK golf industry, we conclude that there is much to be optimistic about even though we did lose three UK golf clubs.
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New figures measuring golf participation show there was a huge increase around the world between 2022 and 2023.
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A new survey of golfers in the UK and Ireland has found only 22 percent of regular golfers are satisfied with the year-round condition of their home golf course.
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A third UK golf club – and the second in Scotland – has announced it is closing down in less than one week.
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A golf club that was fully operational just days after it was hit by a large fire has thanked a neighbouring club for loaning it course machinery after its equipment had been destroyed in the blaze.
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A second UK golf club has announced it is closing down in the space of two days.
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A Scottish golf club has closed with immediate effect following its annual general meeting.






















