News
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The United States golf industry, which is about six times bigger than the UK’s, is worth £43.8 billion per year and employs nearly two million people.
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Bedale Golf Club in Yorkshire has become the latest venue to offer a flexible ‘pay as you play’ membership category to retain and recruit customers.
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The chief executive of The R&A has urged golf clubs to offer something shorter than 18 holes of golf in order to attract new players.
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The owner of one of the biggest new golf courses in London has announced he intends to build another three in the city within the next seven years.
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Bob Williams has been appointed as the chief executive of the Golf Club Managers’ Association (GCMA).
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The world’s largest operator of golf clubs has announced it is to relax its dress code policy.
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A golf professional has urged golf clubs not to sell green fees on discount websites as he believes they are damaging the industry.
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A new survey has found that golfers are taking longer than they would like to complete a round of golf and that some are even put off playing the game because of it.
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A senior MP has alleged that famous and powerful people abused children in golf clubs’ car parks in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A Surrey golf club situated next to the Dunsfold Aerodrome – home to motoring television programme Top Gear – has been put up for sale.
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A story about a golf club wedding planner accidentally sending an email to the couple that were due to be married has gone viral.
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An economic survey of the golf industry has found that more than 440 clubs are struggling because they have lost their market share to just 117 other venues.
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The manager of a London golf club has said that venues are struggling more now than ever before, and that those that don’t offer free coaching are likely to go under.
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A prestigious Essex golf club has closed suddenly and temporarily following what it describes as an ‘incident’ that has taken place between its management and its freeholder.
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A Hertfordshire golf club that Ryder Cup star Ian Poulter once worked at has become the centre of international media interest.
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The chief executive of England Golf, John Petrie, has left his position with immediate effect.
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A new survey of golfers has found they are far more concerned about the environmental impact of golf venues than previously thought.
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The largest retailer of golf equipment in Europe has agreed a £20m deal to refinance debt that it owes to its bank.
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A study of more than 68,000 people has found that men are significantly more attracted to women who play or follow golf.
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The chief executive of the Golf Club Managers’ Association (GCMA) has announced he is leaving his post.
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Organisers of a cancer charity golf tournament in honour of Seve Ballesteros have stated that the current top 72 winning scores are all genuine – but one competitor has been disqualified.
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A controversial Australian hedge fund manager has ignored the advice of the Scottish Golf Union (SGU) and decided to build a new golf course in Scotland.
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Being an active member of a golf club could add three and a half years to an elderly person’s life, a new survey has found.
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One of the country’s premier hotels is offering non-residents membership of its golf club for the first time in its history.
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Broke Hill Golf Club in Kent has been bought by a company with practically no public profile for an undisclosed sum. The company’s directors now run two firms that collectively own two golf venues.
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Approximately one in 10 golf club managers have said they have lost members solely as a result of the introduction of ‘inactive’ handicaps, according to a new survey.
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The Association of Golf Course Owners (AGCO) is dramatically stepping up its campaign to put pressure on politicians to reform tax legislation in golf.
