Alistair Dunsmuir
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A major new golf course is going to be built next to the Irish beach that was used to film Saving Private Ryan.
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A popular, municipal golf course in Scotland, which was built in the 1950s, has said it has been told it could close down in just three weeks.
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From a club selling out 2024’s tee times in a few hours to others reporting 2023 was their best year ever, the golf industry is in a far healthier place in 2024 than it was when Slumbers and Pelley joined it in 2015.
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A Somerset golf club has reportedly lost members after it announced plans to reduce its course from 18 holes to 12, and build other forms of entertainment in the space created.
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In a sign of the strength of the UK golf industry today, a Welsh golf club that permanently closed down before the pandemic is to reopen.
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A golf club in Cumbria has said members of a neighbouring club that has been hit by flooding can use its facilities for free during the clean-up operation.
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Dundonald Links has appointed Vicki Harrison as its new general manager – making her the first woman to hold the position at the Ayrshire resort.
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A charity that last year took over the running of its 12th golf club since forming in 2018 has agreed a three-year deal to host the Women’s Golf Championship.
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Volunteers have been moving thousands of sandbags to help protect a golf club near Lincoln, which may have been hit by half a million pounds-worth of flood damage.
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A golf club that was purchased by its local council 17 years ago is set to be sold back to its tenant.
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A golf club in Leeds has said it may be forced to close due to repeated vandalism.
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The Committee for Golf Club Salaries (CGCS) has recommended a seven percent increase in the salaries of golf club staff for 2024, and nine percent for assistant greenkeepers.
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One of the world’s oldest links venues, Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club, is offering a lifetime overseas golf membership to help pay for protection against storms.
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An 18-hole Hertfordshire golf club has submitted a plan to build 10 additional holes.
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Thieves stole more than 10,000 golf balls from a golf club in Kent that had just reopened after years of closure in an overnight raid shortly before Christmas.
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A golf club, hotel and spa in Dorset that said it would close its golf operation down this year has now announced that the entire venue will permanently close.
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Martin Slumbers, CEO of The R&A and secretary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, is to step down by the end of 2024 after what will be nine years in the role.
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New research of nearly 200 golf clubs has found that the average club in the UK and Ireland generated £163,952 in casual green fee income in 2023 – eight percent higher than the previous record year of 2022.
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An historic Welsh site, which became a golf club in 1982, with a Grade II-listed manor house for a clubhouse, is to build a driving range.
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England Golf has reported that golf participation in 2023 was up compared with 2022’s high numbers, and nine-hole golf has seen a sharp rise.
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A golf course operator that was established in 2019 has taken over its third golf club.
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A Scottish golf club has become the third UK venue in a few days to reveal that more than 100 people joined it in the last 12 months, while a Portuguese venue has stated 2023 was its best year ever.
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The boom in golf participation in the last four years has resulted in some golf clubs reintroducing joining fees, a new survey has found.
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From a royal club wanting to be treated by its community as a flexible working location to some salient points made about saving a nine-hole course, 2023 ended with an idea of trends we might expect to see in 2024.
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An Ayrshire charity that runs three golf courses has carried out a series of redundancies – and has been accused of not realising that at least one of the managers it was letting go also worked as a greenkeeper.
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A Scottish golf resort that fell into administration a few months ago has been rescued and major expansion plans for it ‘to rival Gleneagles’ have been revealed.
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A Scottish golf club’s bid to build a family home, which would have been “essential to the daily operations”, has been rejected.


























