Features

  • “It’s been mentally brilliant for me”

    After being diagnosed with a functional neurological disorder, Pauline Reid tried golf for the first time at her local club. This has changed her life.

  • Technology has barged its way into the golf industry, making clubs and organisations globally audit their current software solutions to keep up with the advanced digital era.

  • How technology can help you be a better golfer

    In this article, we’re going over a couple of ways technology can help you up your golf game and add some fun to your downtime.

  • Surbiton Golf Club invests in hybrid mowers

    Surbiton Golf Club has invested for the first time in environmentally friendly technology with two Greensmaster 3360 hybrid mowers, and accessed the industry’s newest spraying technology with the GeoLink system.

  • 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.

  • Profile: Kress RTKn mowers

    The Kress RTKn robot mower addresses all essential factors for efficient and effective robotic mowing on your golf course.

  • Embracing the opportunity to reset

    This year Stellar Asset Management bought its fourth golf club, to ensure it avoided insolvency. Ben Blackburn explains why this company is investing in golf and what changes the venues are experiencing.

  • With a padel

    Padel courts have been built at several golf clubs in recent years. But what is padel and why is it proving to be irresistible to so many golf venues?

  • Essential business planning to thrive in 2025

    Steve Bird, Foremost Golf Business Development Consultant and Education Lead, highlights some simple steps that will stack the odds in your favour as we approach 2025.

  • Golf clubs and land options

    Golf clubs across the country are exploring alternative options that enable them to capitalise on high land values and take advantage of planning policies to benefit the future viability of their venues.

  • Meet the women’s golf advocate: Cara Gainer

    The Club Company has entered into a partnership with professional golfer Cara Gainer. Here, Cara discusses how she’s using the partnership to promote the game to women and girls.

  • “We aim to be one of the best in the region”

    Next year Allerton Manor in Liverpool will reopen its main course. It is also developing a hotel and spa, an adventure golf course and a premium catering unit, and will build a new clubhouse.

  • “Real estate development takes precedence”

    Joaquín Mora Bertrán, deputy general manager of Golf, Beach Club and F&B at INFINITUM in Spain, talks about hosting the DP World Tour Qualifying School Final Stage and running three different courses.

  • Extra security with CardsSafe

    CardsSafe is a cost-effective technology designed to securely retain customer credit, debit and ID cards while customers run tabs or hire a product or service. 

  • Boyd keeps swinging

    Lindsay Boyd has been an assistant golf club manager, a director of golf and is now the club professional at Donaghadee Golf Club. He talks about how he manages his workload and how TGI benefits his business.

  • Big wins in golf betting

    Golf betting has its fair share of thrilling stories, especially with put-dropping wins.

  • Wh­at is your time worth?

    Golf Finance stresses the importance of effective time management and delegation as key factors in fostering relationships and driving lasting success within golf clubs.

  • Club Systems and intelligentgolf have joined forces to launch groundbreaking new benchmarking software in which golf clubs can compare and contrast their key data against other golf clubs’ data.

  • Life begins at 40

    We sat down with Andy Martin, managing director and Paul Hedges, former chief executive officer at Foremost Golf, in the year it celebrates its 40th year anniversary, to discuss the last four decades.

  • AIR-EZE offers winter discount on shoe cleaner

    Between now and October 31, 2024, AIR-EZE is offering a ‘winter discount’ on the AIR-EZE Fairway Shoe Cleaner.

  • 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.

  • Life lessons

    A partnership between Whitchurch Golf Club in Cardiff and a local school has seen girls learn golf and life leadership skills over the course of six weekly sessions, instead of doing PE.

  • Short but sweet

    Short courses and short-game areas are continuing to spring up at golf clubs, offering practice opportunities, the ability to play a round quickly and a pathway for beginners before moving on to the clubs’ main courses.

  • Royal Winchester Golf Club installs AIR-EZE

    Royal Winchester Golf Club installs an air-operated footwear cleaning system from AIR-EZE.

  • Golf participation is still booming around the world

    New figures measuring golf participation show there was a huge increase around the world between 2022 and 2023.

  • Meet the manager: David Green

    The new Basingstoke Golf Club has been one of the most talked-about golf development projects in the UK and is being headed up by general manager David Green. Here he tells us about what’s been going on.

  • Machinery review: Toro Greensmaster e1026

    The Greensmaster e1026 fixed-head pedestrian mower represents not only Toro’s investment in research and development of electrified equipment, but its dedication to providing battery-powered choice.