Alistair Dunsmuir
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Research for a group of more than 30 Highlands golf clubs has found that visitor income to them has soared from £5.8 million per year to £9 million in the last six years.
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A 123-year-old golf club in Nottinghamshire has been purchased by an inheritance tax and estate planning specialist, ensuring it avoids insolvency and that its members each receive a significant dividend.
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Vandals have damaged a golf course located just five miles away from Royal Troon one week before it hosts the Open Championship.
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Golf club operator Burhill Group Limited (BGL) has reported record six-month financial results.
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Trump Turnberry has issued a desire to return as a host venue for the Open Championship, and says it would be fitting if it was the location for the 2027 championship.
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Housebuilder Acorn Property Group has acquired land situated at Cricket St Thomas Golf Club in Somerset and intends to build 30 flats overlooking the course.
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Irish golf club operator Carr Golf has taken on its 24th golf club.
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The current chief executive of Premiership Rugby club Northampton Saints, Mark Darbon, 45, has been named as the new CEO of The R&A, one of the most powerful positions in golf.
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The data from the last month paints a positive picture for the state of the UK golf industry this summer.
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intelligentgolf, a leading provider of online solutions for golf clubs, has partnered with golf travel specialist Golfbreaks to allow its customers to share tee time availability with a wide audience of golfers.
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Four of Britain’s biggest golf clubs have all revealed plans for major developments in recent weeks.
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A Derbyshire-based entrepreneur has bought a 19th century venue with a golf course attached to it and said he will invest heavily in it.
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Chart Hills Golf Club in Kent has finalised its most recent renovation project, marking a significant milestone in its multi-year investment plan.
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Ramside Hall Hotel in Durham is planning to extend its clubhouse and build a two-storey driving range.
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A UK golf operator has taken on its fifth golf club – and its third this year.
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London’s newest golf course has opened, as the first golfers took to the fairways of a modern links in the city.
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The retail space at Burhill Golf Club in Surrey’s professional shop has become one of its operator’s most profitable retail venues.
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A golf club in Shrewsbury has been forced to close for a few days after several caravans appeared on the course and images of damage to the venue were shared online.
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The charity that runs the Old Course in St Andrews has reported a record-breaking year for revenue and golf participation, ensuring it earnt more in profit in 2023 than it lost during Covid in 2020 and 2021 combined.
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A golf club in Cardiff which joined forces with a local school has successfully attracted schoolgirls into golf.
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The UK’s largest golf club operator, The Club Company, has acquired Greetham Valley in Rutland, which features three golf courses, making the venue its 17th golf club.
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From golf clubs offering help to vulnerable people in their communities to venues building padel courts, May has been a month of trends and developments in the UK golf industry.
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A charity that operates several UK golf clubs has announced the world’s first female-only disabled golf event will take place in Hertfordshire this summer.
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Basingstoke Golf Club has outlined plans for a phased opening period at its new location, as the Hampshire venue tees off on its journey to a full reopening following a £15 million redevelopment project.
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A man who worked in finance until the pandemic has launched a new dream career as a greenkeeper after a large corporation gifted apprenticeship funding to a local golf club.
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An Essex golf club has become the latest to say it will install padel courts at its venue.
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London Golf Club is planning on a major expansion that will include a new hotel and spa, to make it a ‘health and wellbeing-focused leisure destination’ in Kent.
