Alistair Dunsmuir
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June was another month of new data showing a boom in participation mixed with the difficulties of rising costs.
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The R&A Foundation has said it has been pledged £10 million by philanthropic donors around the world since 2022.
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The 2025 Foremost Championships were met with record participation at The Oxfordshire Golf Hotel & Spa on a sunny day in June, with a thrilling six-man playoff to decide the eventual winner, Derek Watters of Gourock Golf Club, the first ever Scottish winner of the event.
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A golf club’s own limited-edition gin, which was created to mark the opening of its coastal-inspired golf hole, has won an award at the World Gin Awards.
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Christine Pascall and Trish Johnson have both been awarded MBEs.
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The month of May 2025 surprisingly saw the highest number of World Handicap System (WHS) scores submitted in England ever, it has been revealed.
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Following the death of his six-year-old son Hugh in 2021, PGA professional and golf club co-owner Ceri Menai-Davis is hoping to change employment law so that parents are offered more protection if their child becomes critically ill.
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A survey of 116 golf clubs in Scotland has found inflation, ageing memberships and attracting visitors are three major concerns at the moment.
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A golf course in West Dunbartonshire that was earmarked for closure in March has been rescued.
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BGL (Burhill Group Limited) has unveiled a new initiative aimed at making golf more accessible to beginners, with its ‘Pathway to Golf’ programme being rolled out across nine of its golf venues around the UK.
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Green fees at top UK golf clubs are rising at, on average, four times the rate of inflation, according to new research.
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From a survey showing 87 percent of people think golf is for older people to the dry spring resulting in participation records being broken, May has been an interesting month.
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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.
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Select Group, a Dubai-headquartered international group, has acquired Old Thorns Hotel & Resort, a golf venue in Hampshire.
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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.
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Golf participation in Great Britain in the first quarter saw a large increase on 2024’s numbers, according to new data.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One of the highest rated links golf courses in the world, The European Club in Wicklow, Ireland, has been sold.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The manager of a golf club in Sussex has unofficially broken the world record for the number of putts holed in one minute.
