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A municipal golf club that closed down in early 2011 is set to re-open in the next few weeks following interest in the site and anger from local residents that the venue is a magnet for crime.
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Jonathan Wall, an assistant greenkeeper at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, has won Myerscough College’s best student award.
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An expelled member of Dullatur Golf Club in Scotland has been reinstated by one of the most senior judges in the country.
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Ardglass Golf Club has been named as Ireland’s ‘Links Golf Course of the Year 2011’ following a 20 per cent increase in business.
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Loch Lomond Golf Club in Scotland has won the ‘Overall Achievement Award’ at the STRI’s Golf Environment Awards 2011.
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St Andrews Links has been awarded the Golf Environment Organisation (GEO) Certified™ eco-label in recognition of its sustainability commitment and achievements.
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A golf club manager who has found himself at the centre of a storm over an email he sent to an army colonel over disabled access at his golf club has said he was joking.
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A new Middle Eastern golf club that markets itself via reciprocal deals with other courses around the world has been shortlisted for an award.
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A Lincolnshire golf course could be converted into housing after the company that owns the location’s lease has decided it does not fit into its business plan.
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The captain of the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA), Eddie Bullock, has said that golf clubs need to offer more educational offerings to their managers in order for the club to survive in current, difficult market conditions.
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Osborne Golf Club in the Isle of Wight has completed a £150,000 clubhouse refurbishment programme.
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Cannington Golf Centre in Somerset, a nine-hole golf course located at a further education college, has been awarded ‘high achiever’ GolfMark accreditation.
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A golfer will no longer be penalised if his or her ball is moved by a gust of wind after it has been addressed.
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More than 200 golf clubs around Europe have signed up for the new Golf 4 Heroes project.
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Two major golf clubs, one in China and one in Cyprus, have formed a reciprocal partnership to attract more members to both.
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The course manager of Bearwood Lakes Golf Club has timed his selective herbicide treatments, targeting ryegrass and Yorkshire fog, to coincide with the natural fescues’ autumn senescence.
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Educational podcasts for greenkeepers to listen to as they cut the grass has been launched by a fellow greenkeeper.
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Proposals for a £200k golf development in Perthshire have been approved by local councillors who are keen on attracting tourists to the area.
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A Peter Alliss-designed golf club has been sold for just £58,000 to its landlord due to extreme market conditions and a clause in its lease.
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A new poll has found that 39 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds were inspired to try golf for the first time following Rory McIlroy’s success at the US Open Championship in June.
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The future of the Disabled British Open has been secured as Tourism South East has revealed it has set up a company to run, manage and grow both the Disabled British Open and the Junior Disabled British Open.
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The English Golf Union (EGU) is concerned that the Yorkshire Union of Golf Clubs will block its attempts to merge with the English Women’s Golf Association (EWGA) next month.
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Wharton Park Golf and Country Club in Worcestershire has been awarded £10,000 from the National Lottery to promote golf to juniors – particularly disabled children.
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The Cheshire Union of Golf Clubs has become aware that forgeries of discount cards have been in circulation and in use at Cheshire clubs.
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An armed robbery at Perival Park Golf Club in London has been thwarted by firearms officers, the Flying Squad – and a 66-year-old woman who was about to have a lesson at the club.
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The parent company of TopGolf, which runs driving ranges in England, has been named as one of the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Top 1,000 Brightest Businesses’.
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More than 11,500 golfers have entered the inaugural HowDidiDo order of merit which runs until the end of this October.
