Alistair Dunsmuir

Green fees at top UK golf clubs are rising at, on average, four times the rate of inflation, according to new research.

A golf professional at The Grove in Watford has broken the Guinness World Record for the ‘World’s Longest Golf Marathon’, in which he played non-stop golf for 32 hours.

Select Group, a Dubai-headquartered international group, has acquired Old Thorns Hotel & Resort, a golf venue in Hampshire.

Oxford Golf Club, the oldest golf club in Oxfordshire, now has about 100 more members than it did at its previous peak in the 1990s.

Golf participation in Great Britain in the first quarter saw a large increase on 2024’s numbers, according to new data.

New research in England has found there is substantial interest in playing forms of golf but there is a perception that it is a sport that’s only played by people over the age of 40.

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews has appointed Dumbarnie Links’ manager David Scott as its sixth-ever honorary professional. David succeeds Jim Farmer who passed away late last year.

A golf club in New York has become one of the first in the world to use an autonomous robot to deliver food and drink to golfers out on the course.

One of the highest rated links golf courses in the world, The European Club in Wicklow, Ireland, has been sold.

An Australian group has appointed an investment firm to review eight golf courses in the UK, in order to build 3,000 homes around them.

Dundonald Links has become the first UK golf venue to join the International Associate Clubs (IAC) network, a global collection of almost 250 illustrious sport and leisure clubs.

A golf club in the UAE emirate Ajman has launched a pioneering all-female caddie initiative that it hopes will redefine personalised golf service in the region.

3 Hammers Golf Complex in Wolverhampton, which has just been named ‘Golf Facility of the Year’ by England Golf, has been sold to Golf & Leisure Group.

More official golf scores were submitted in England in April than in any other April since the World Handicap System (WHS) was launched, it has been revealed.

Following the theft of over £2 million of stock last weekend, Worldwide Golf Brands has reported that business is back up and running, with minimal disruption to the vast majority of its customers.

The manager of a golf club in Sussex has unofficially broken the world record for the number of putts holed in one minute.

The house manager at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Sian Heatley, has become the first female Certified Club Manager (CCM) in Wales.

More than £2 million in stock has been stolen from a Worldwide Golf Brands warehouse in Manchester.

A golf club in Cornwall has installed a ground-mounted 600kW solar array on the outskirts of its golf course.

Golf facilities across Wales will be transformed this year, with 74 projects securing funding from the million-pound Women’s Golf Legacy Fund from the Welsh government, through Sport Wales. 

There has been more demand for tickets for this year’s Open Championship than for any other in history outside of St Andrews.

The modernised process for single golfers has been praised by players as easy and equitable, who previously had to queue for tee times, sometimes for up to 12 hours.

More golf clubs have this month announced that they have appointed a woman as captain for the first time in their history.

Prince’s Golf Club, host of the 1932 Open Championship, has completed a significant clubhouse renovation.